Particle Size Reference Standards

FIGURE 20.13 FFF fractogram of the separation of silver and gold nanoparticles, nsing both UV absorbance (inset graph) and ICP-MS detection. 

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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The NIST is the source of many of the standards used in chemical and physical analyses in the United States and throughout the world. The standards prepared and distributed by the NIST are used to caUbrate measurement systems and to provide a central basis for uniformity and accuracy of measurement. At present, over 1200 Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) are available and are described by the NIST (15). Included are many steels, nonferrous alloys, high purity metals, primary standards for use in volumetric analysis, microchemical standards, clinical laboratory standards, biological material certified for trace elements, environmental standards, trace element standards, ion-activity standards (for pH and ion-selective electrodes), freezing and melting point standards, colorimetry standards, optical standards, radioactivity standards, particle-size standards, and density standards. Certificates are issued with the standard reference materials showing values for the parameters that have been determined. 

It is sometimes convenient to use a properly chosen scattered line in the background for comparison to avoid having to add an internal standard to the sample.37 The experience of the Applied Research Laboratories shows that the effects of variations or fluctuations in the equipment and of particle size in powdered samples can be eliminated satisfactorily in this way. In some cases, absorption and enhancement effects are also adequately compensated. We have already mentioned (7.8) that scattered reference line and the analytical line will be subject to considerably different absorption effects if the two lines differ appreciably in wavelength. Everything depends upon the selection of a satisfactory scattered reference line, and this is done empirically. 

The standard equUibrium potential of a metal/metal ion electrode is shifted to cathodic potentials with decreasing particle size. Taking a compact metal electrode as reference, the change in potential for a microelectrode of radius r is... 

For code R8 it commences with a solid with the help of AFNOR standards NF T 20-035 . Handling consists in preparing mixtures of variable compositions of an oxidant to be classified as cellulose. Both substances have to have a definite particle size distribution. The composition which gives the fastest combustion on a moulding of the mixture at a distance of 20 cm is established. This speed is compared with the one of the mixture used as a reference, which has an imposed composition of barium nitrate and cellulose. If the combustion speed of the particular substance is higher than that of the reference, it will bear R8. 

In NPLC, which refers to the use of adsorption, i.e. liquid-solid chromatography (LSC), the surface of microparticulate silica (or other adsorbent) constitutes the most commonly used polar stationary phase normal bonded-phase chromatography (N-BPC) is typified by nitrile- or amino-bonded stationary phases. Silica columns with a broad range of properties are commercially available (with standard particle sizes of 3, 5 and 10 im, and pore sizes of about 6-15nm). A typical HPLC column is packed with a stationary phase of a pore size of 10 nm and contains a surface area of between 100 and 150m2 mL-1 of mobile phase volume. 

Spent foundry sand is thought of as a beneficial substitute for fine sand for use in portland cement concrete. Prior to acceptance of inclusion, test standards applied on conventional fine sand shall be referred to as the standards for spent foundry sand to compare the physical properties of conventional sand and spent foundry sand. The most important parameters are particle size distribution, fineness modulus, dust content, density, organics content, deleterious materials content, and grain shape. Although no spent foundry sand satisfies all of the specifications, foundry sand can be blended with conventional sand to be incorporated into the concrete matrix. The replacing ratio normally starts at one-third. 

HPLC analysis of TAGs was applied to olive oils and a limit for LLL was established at 0.5% of the total TAGs and enclosed in the European Commission (EC) Regulation on olive oils, as well as in the related international norms (International Olive Oil Trade Norm [2], Codex Alimentarius Standard [3]). The method performed the separation by RP-HPLC on a C18 Lichrosorb or Lichrosphere column, 25x0.46 cm, 5 J,m of particle size, isocratic elution with acetone/acetonitrile (50/50 v/v) and RI detection. Eigure 19.1 reproduced the HPLC traces annexed to the official method [4] chromatogram A refers to 100% soybean oil, B to a mixture 50/50 soybean and olive, C 100% olive oil. 

Fig. 3.5,19 Open-circuit voltage (K. ) for CdS formed in 9-layer CdAr films as a function of particle size (estimated from UV/visible absorption spectra). The electrolyte was 1.0 M Na2S03 at pH 7.25, and platinum and standard calomel electrodes were used as the counter and reference electrodes, respectively. (From Ref. 5.)...

Sieve analysis using standard mesh screens is commonly used to determine particle size and size distribution of pellets and the reader is referred to standard texts for further information (61). Several types of densities have been defined for pellets based on interparticulate (void fraction) and intraparticulate pore volumes and include true, apparent, effective, bulk and tapped. The bulk and tapped densities may be obtained using simple devices, such as that used to evaluate granulations in tableting, while the true and apparent densities need more complex techniques based on mercury intrusion, gas flow, powder displacement, imaging or minimum fluidization velocity (62). 

A liquid chromatographic method is utilized for the determination of clopidogrel bisulfate in samples of the bulk drug substance. The method uses a column (L57 column size 15 cm x 4.6 mm) packed with ovomucoid (a chiral-recognition protein) that is chemically bonded to silica particles of 5 /im diameter and a pore size of 120 A. Both the reference standard and the sample to be analyzed are dissolved in methanol, and then diluted with mobile phase. The mobile phase is 75 25 0.01 M phosphate buffer /acetonitrile, and the flow rate is adjusted to 1.0 ml/min. Observation is made on the basis of the UV absorbance at 220 nm, and the clopidogrel peak has a relative retention time about 1.0 min. 

Matrix (volume) Analytes Internal standard LOQ (ng/ml) Sample preparation Column (particle size, dimensions) Ionization and detection mode Reference... 

Where Nvi is the observed number of particles per unit volume in the ith sample and "Nv is the arithmetic mean number of particles in n samples. (The index i refers to the ith sample in a set of n samples, and not to the particle size class). Maximum homogeneity is characterized by a minimum standard deviation other hand, special separating or agglomerating tendencies exist among the particles, the value of [Pg.33]

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