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Ia. Rawe and J. T. Khamis, Addition and Condensation Polymerization Processes, Advances in Chemistry Series, Vol. 91, American Chemical Society Publications, Washington, D.C., 1969. 

HydrometaHurgical recovery of copper from manganese sea nodules has been studied extensively, as have combined PyrometaHurgical—hydrometaHurgical processes. Advancements in hydrometaHurgy and leaching technology are described in References 35—37. 

A. Dyer, M.J. Hudson and P.A. Williams (Eds), Ion Exchange Processes Advances and Applications, Royal Society of Chemistry, London, 1993. ISBN 0851864457. 

B. M. E. Van Der Hoff, Polymerization and Polycon-densation Process, Advances in Chemistry Series, American Chemical Society, Washington D.C. (1962). 

Torma, A. E. The role of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans in hydrometallurgical processes. Advances in Biochemical Engineering 1977, 6, 1-37. 

It is expected that in the very near future, the application of closed water loops will show an intensive growth, strongly supported by the further development of separate treatment technologies such as anaerobic treatment, membrane bioreactors, advanced biofilm processes, membrane separation processes, advanced precipitation processes for recovery of nutrients, selective separation processes for recovery of heavy metals, advanced oxidation processes, selective adsorption processes, advanced processes for demineralisation, and physical/chemical processes which can be applied at elevated temperature. 

Spindel, W. 1969 Isotope Effects in Chemical Processes, Advances in Chemistry Series 89 (Washington, DC, American Chemical Society)... 

M. Heule, S. VuUlemin, and L.J. Gauckler. Powder-based ceramic meso- and microscale fabrication processes , Advanced Materials 15 (2003), 1237-1245. 

N. Senapati, Ultrasound in chemical processing, Advances in Sonochemistry,... 

Fet us now consider an initial composition C2. We are within the two spinodal points on the Gibbs free energy coherent curve G decomposition takes place spontaneously throughout the entire phase, with modulated compositional fluctuations whose amphtudes increase as the process advances. We always obtain pigeonite plus diopside, although theoretically the orthopyroxene plus diopside paragenesis, also in this case, corresponds to the minimum energy of the system. 

Equations 9.109 and 9.110 are valid for a boiling process in a closed system the gaseous phase develops from a liquid with initial concentration Cq, is the mass fraction of developed gas, and K is the mass distribution constant of the component of interest between gas and liquid. Equations 9.111 and 9.112 describe a multistage separation process in which n is the number of separation stages, AFg is the mass fraction of gas separated in each stage, saiAK is the mean mass distribution constant of the process. Equations 9.113 and 9.114 refer to a boiling process in an open system the gas is continuously removed from the system as the process advances. 

Assumption 2 may lead to substantial errors, because the salinity of the liquid normally increases during boiling. The consequent increase in ionic strength modifies the activity coefficients of solutes. In particular, if the gaseous species are polar and nonpolar, the activity coefficients of solutes diverge as the process advances (see section 8.7). 

Equation 10.93 clearly shows that, if apparent partition coefficient is adopted instead of conventional partition coefficient K actually valid at the solid/liquid interface to model Rayleigh s crystallization, errors arise whose magnitudes increase the more K differs from 1 and the longer the process advances. This is clearly shown in figure 10.15, in which fractional differences — K )IK are plotted as functions of T for various values of K . 

Pharmacology Donepezil enhances cholinergic function by increasing the concentration of acetylcholine through reversible inhibition of its hydrolysis by acetylcholinesterase (AChE). Donepezil s effect may lessen as the disease process advances and fewer cholinergic neurons remain functionally intact. Pharmacokinetics ... 

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Thus, healing of wounds treated with silatranes is accompanied by a normal reaction of the organism which is expressed by rapidly progressive anaemia and moderate leucocytosis. However, in this case all the processes advance more quickly. Furthermore, the silatranes studied suppress inflammatory processes. This is proved by the normal leucocyte content by the time of wound healing. 

In line with the tremendous renewed activity witnessed in recent years in the field of multicomponent reactions, remarkable new strategies have been developed based on metal-catalyzed coupling processes. Advances in this area take advantage of the myriad of bond-forming processes that can be achieved with metal catalysts. 

Belser, P., De Cola, L., Hard, F., et al., Photochromic switches incorporated in bridging ligands A new tool to modulate energy-transfer processes. Advanced Functional Materials 2006, 16, 195-208. 

Sonnleitner B (2000), Instrumentation of biotechnological processes, Advances in Biochemical Engineering Biotechnology, vol. 66, Springer, Berlin, pp. 1-64. 

As an irreversible process advances in a closed system, the creation of entropy inevitably occurs dissipating a part of the energy of the system in the form of uncompensated heat. The irreversible energy dissipation can be observed, for instance, with the generation of frictional heat in mechanical processes and with the rate-dependent heat generation in chemical reactions different from the reversible heat of reaction. In general, the creation of entropy is always caused by the presence of resistance against the advancement in irreversible processes... 

An irreversible process advances, if its affinity is positive (A >0), and it finally reaches the equilibrium state where the affinity becomes zero (A = 0). This indicates that the advancement in an irreversible process is accompanied by decreasing thermodynamic potentials. As shown in Fig. 3.4, an irreversible process proceeds in the direction in which the thermodynamic potentials of the process decrease. In principle, the affinity decreases as the irreversible process proceeds. 

The affinity of irreversible processes is a thermodynamic function of state related to the creation of entropy and uncompensated heat during the processes. The second law of thermodynamics indicates that all irreversible processes advance in the direction of creating entropy and decreasing affinity. This chapter examines the property affinity in chemical reactions and the relation between the affinity and various other thermodynamic quantities. 

Powder-based ceramic meso- and microscale fabrication processes. Advanced Engineering Materials, 15, 1237-1245. 

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