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Such IRMs are more than sufficient for routine elemental analysis, and also for interference corrections, which require expanded uncertainties between 1% and 0.1% only. 

Even higher demands apply to measurements generating isotope amount ratios for different interpretations, for example, in geochemistry. By applying MC mass spectrometric instruments and highly sophisticated measurement procedures, including well-developed chemical separation procedures, reproducibilities of 0.001% can be achieved. This requires IRMs offering uncertainties of less than 0.001%. However, in many cases where interpretation of isotopic variations is important, no absolute data are required and relative or 5-values are sufficient. 

we face two opposite trends. Triggered by the rapid development of ICP-MS, the number of published isotope ratio data increased rapidly. This rapid development also caused an increasing number of wrong isotope ratio data to be published, such as the Sr isotope ratio data for ginseng by Choi et al. [82]. The extremely low Sr/ Sr data published by Choi et al. fall in a range that does not even exist today in terrestrial materials, as was demonstrated by Rosner [83]. The provision of suitable IRMs and their subsequent application can help to avoid such failings. 

At present, the determination of isotope amount ratios is possible with reproducibilities of the order of 0.001% [47, 86], and future isotope research surely will go below this limit. This automatically means that the requirements for IRMs are of the same order or even higher. IRMs with uncertainties around 0.001% for the isotope amount ratio are currently not available. A representative selection of IRMs with uncertainties covering the existing range is presented in Table 6.4. The range 

RM code Element Category Year State Relative uncertainty (%) (( = 1) 

There is a long history in the United Kingdom (UK) of research, development and successful practical application of safety and reliability technology. There is a continuing prograimne of fundamental research in areas such as software reliability and human error in addition to further development of the general methodology. Much of the development work was carried out by the nuclear industry. 

Most chemical and petrochemical companies in the UK have made use of safety and reliability assessment techniques for plant evaluation and planning. Similar methods are regularly employed in relation to offshore production and exploration installations. 

The Royal Navy has introduced reliability and maintainability engineering concepts in order to ensure that modem warships are capable of a high combat availability at optimum cost (Gosden and Galpin (1999)). The application of these methods has been progressively extended from consideration of the operational phase and maintenance planning to the design phase. 

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G. A. Johnson and co-workers, "Present Status of the H-Coal Process," paper 30, IGT Coal Symposium, Chicago, 1973. 

A. H. Green, Coconut Production Present Status and Priorities for Research, World Bank Technical Paper, Washiugton, D.C., 1991. 

Spermaceti. Spermaceti [8002-23-1] is derived from the head oil of the sperm whale. Owing to the present status of the sperm whale as an endangered species, however, the material is no longer an item of commerce and has been replaced by other natural and synthetic waxes. 

Lipson (1943, 1944), who had examined a copper-nickeMron ternary alloy. A few years ago, on an occasion in honour of Mats Hillert, Cahn (1991) mapped out in masterly fashion the history of the spinodal concept and its establishment as a widespread alternative mechanism to classical nucleation in phase transformations, specially of the solid-solid variety. An excellent, up-to-date account of the present status of the theory of spinodal decomposition and its relation to experiment and to other branches of physics is by Binder (1991). The Hillert/Cahn/Hilliard theory has also proved particularly useful to modern polymer physicists concerned with structure control in polymer blends, since that theory was first applied to these materials in 1979 (see outline by Kyu 1993). 

The evolution of superalloys has been splendidly mapped by an Ameriean metallurgist, Sims (1966, 1984), while the more restrieted tale of the British side of this development has been told by Pfeil (1963). I have analysed (Cahn 1973) some of the lessons to be drawn from the early stages of this story in the eontext of the methods of alloy design it really is an evolutionary tale... the survival of the fittest, over and over again. The present status of superalloy metallurgy is eoneisely presented by MeLean (1996). 

The guest editors have assembled an excellent set of reviews and research articles covering all aspects of the field of carbon nanotubes. The reviews are presented in a clear and concise form by many of the leading researchers in the field. It is hoped that this collection of review articles provides a convenient reference for the present status of research on carbon nanotubes, and serves to stimulate future work in the field. 

Having agreed on PSM goals and objectives, your next step is to conduct a more detailed assessment of the present status of PSM activities within your company, to form the basis for your implementation plan. This baseline assessment works against both the model you have selected for PSM and the characteristics that describe a sound management system, such as those described by CCPS. 

In this chapter, we will discuss the present status of CHIRBASE and describe the various ways in which two (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) chemical structure queries can be built and submitted to the searching system. In particular, the ability of this information system to locate and display neighboring compounds in which specified molecular fragments or partial structures are attached is one of the most important features because this is precisely the type of query that chemists are inclined to express and interpret the answers. Another aspect of the project has been concerned with the interdisciplinary use of CHIRBASE. We have attempted to produce a series of interactive tools that are designed to help the specialists or novices from different fields who have no particular expertise in chiral chromatography or in searching a chemical database. 

Debottlenecking requires a comprehensive test run to determine the operation s present status. Elements of a test run include ... 

Shreir, L. L. and Mayfield, P, C. S., Impressed Current Anodes , Conference on Cathodic Protection Theory and Practice —The Present Status, Coventry, 28-30 April (1982)... 

Electronic Configuration Model Quantum Mechanics and Reduction 317 3 PRESENT STATUS AND APPLICATIONS... 

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