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Other related co-monomers were also studied. These included 7V-(hydroxy-methyl)acrylamide (HMA), methacrylamide, and iV,A/-dimethylacrylamide. The copolymerization of styrene with HMA led to less water-soluble polymer in the serum than in the case of copolymers of acrylamide and styrene. This may be attributable to differences in the hydrophilic-hydrophobic properties of acrylamide and HMA. Some monodisperse latices were prepared from styrene-HMA-water systems by procedures similar to Procedure 12-2. At a ratio of HMA to styrene of 0.2 to 1.0 the reported particle diameter was 0.3 /im with good size uniformity. It was projected that even better uniformity would be obtained when the ratio of HMA to styrene is 0.09 to 1.0. Either potassium persulfate or Af,A -azobisisopropylamidine hydrochloride has been used as initiators with similar results. Latices were generally purified by repetitive centrifiigation-decantation-redispersion cycles. 

Careful purification of a system has little effect for small and large drops and bubbles. Hence F reaches a maximum for a particular value of the abscissa and decreases to zero at large and small values of the abscissa. An envelope has been drawn to provide an estimate of the maximum increase in terminal velocity for bubbles and drops in pure systems over that for contaminated systems. This envelope, together with Eq. (7-10) and the correlation of the previous section, have been used to obtain the upper curve in Fig. 7.5 for carbon tetrachloride drops in water. The curve gives a good representation of the higher velocities observed for carefully purified systems. 

Dense ionic fluids are not all that new if one examines the many applications of molten salt use in chemistry to date. A good deal of the work is in electrochemistry where the relatively high temperatures are less of a limitation but the relation between low-temperature molten salts and ionic fluids certainly exists. It would be wise neither to completely depend on nor to completely ignore all that has been learned with molten salts and molten salt chemistry. Some highly reactive, easily oxidized metals are readily purified in molten salt solvent systems without the problems with oxygen or the decomposition of water with release of hydrogen. 

PIET There is some information from Europe, for instance, on the Rhine River in Germany. I know that there are many big cities in Germany and also in our country where water is purified by bank infiltration followed by some ozone treatment that is a good system and leads to an excellent quality in terms of bacteriology. 

Other plants such as potatoes, cauliflower, cherries, and soybeans and several fungi may also be used as sources of peroxidase enzymes. Soybeans, in particular, may represent a valuable source of peroxidase because the enzyme is found in the seed coat, which is a waste product from soybean-based industries [90]. In this case, it may be possible to use the solid waste from the soybean industry to treat the wastewaters of various chemical industries. In fact, the direct use of raw soybean hulls to accomplish the removal of phenol and 2-chlorophenol has been demonstrated [105]. However, it should be noted that this type of approach would result in an increase in the amount of solid residues that must be disposed following treatment. Peroxidases extracted from tomato and water hyacinth plants were also used to polymerize phenolic substrates [106], Actual plant roots were also used for in vivo experiments of pollutant removal. The peroxidases studied accomplished good removal of the test substrate guaiacol and the plant roots precipitated the phenolic pollutants at the roots surface. It was suggested that plant roots be used as natural immobilized enzyme systems to remove phenolic compounds from aquatic systems and soils. The direct use of plant material as an enzyme source represents a very interesting alternative to the use of purified enzymes due to its potentially lower cost. However, further studies are needed to confirm the feasibility of such a process. 

DHA-NVP System. We conducted several copolymerization experiments to high conversion in order to examine some characteristics of the systems and to determine some properties of the formed copolymers. The findings are summarized in Table II. The purified poly (DHA-co-NVP) materials were white, powdery solids completely soluble in water, alcohols, chloroform, DMF, and DMSO and insoluble in acetone, benzene, and ether. The copolymers had good film-forming properties, i.e. air-dried films were clear and hard with a high gloss. 

High pressure steam generators require very good quality feed water. Thus, its overall hardness should be less than 20-30 milligrams/kg, and the silicic acid content less than 30 milligrams/kg. Therefore, water must be chemically purified before it can be fed into the boilers. Water purification system uses the widely accepted sodium cation exchange method with subsequent degasiEcation. Other methods may also be used as required by the quality of source water. 

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