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There is no variation in Cr(VI) photocatalytic reduction efficiency while measured over pure or platinized Ti02 (Siemon et al., 2002). If O2 competes with Cr(VI) for conduction band electrons, a faster Cr(VI) reduction should have been obtained over Pt/Ti02, as platinum reduces the overpotential for oxygen reduction. Experimental results suggest that electron transfer to metallic ion from the conduction band or from Pt is rapid and there is no oxygen mediation requirement. 

Figure 3 shows the enthalpy reduction experimentally observed in three different powders made with MgHa nanoparticles [7]. It also shows the relative importance of the three different nanostructures studied in this paper. It is clear from the data that the particle size and size distribution are not enough to predict the enthalpy of formation and that deformed regions with excess enthalpy can explain the experimental observation. Figure 3 also illustrates that surface and grain boundary effects do not reduce the enthalpy sufficiently and that the excess volume effect is needed to explain the observed reduction in the enthalpy of formation. 

The accuracy of our calculations is strongly dependent on the accuracy of the experimental data used to obtain the necessary parameters. While we cannot make any general quantitative statement about the accuracy of our calculations for multicomponent vapor-liquid equilibria, our experience leads us to believe that the calculated results for ternary or quarternary mixtures have an accuracy only slightly less than that of the binary data upon which the calculations are based. For multicomponent liquid-liquid equilibria, the accuracy of prediction is dependent not only upon the accuracy of the binary data, but also on the method used to obtain binary parameters. While there are always exceptions, in typical cases the technique used for binary-data reduction is of some, but not major, importance for vapor-liquid equilibria. However, for liquid-liquid equilibria, the method of data reduction plays a crucial role, as discussed in Chapters 4 and 6. 

Unfortunately, many commonly used methods for parameter estimation give only estimates for the parameters and no measures of their uncertainty. This is usually accomplished by calculation of the dependent variable at each experimental point, summation of the squared differences between the calculated and measured values, and adjustment of parameters to minimize this sum. Such methods routinely ignore errors in the measured independent variables. For example, in vapor-liquid equilibrium data reduction, errors in the liquid-phase mole fraction and temperature measurements are often assumed to be absent. The total pressure is calculated as a function of the estimated parameters, the measured temperature, and the measured liquid-phase mole fraction. 

The primary purpose for expressing experimental data through model equations is to obtain a representation that can be used confidently for systematic interpolations and extrapolations, especially to multicomponent systems. The confidence placed in the calculations depends on the confidence placed in the data and in the model. Therefore, the method of parameter estimation should also provide measures of reliability for the calculated results. This reliability depends on the uncertainties in the parameters, which, with the statistical method of data reduction used here, are estimated from the parameter variance-covariance matrix. This matrix is obtained as a last step in the iterative calculation of the parameters. 

The measurement of a from the experimental slope of the Tafel equation may help to decide between rate-determining steps in an electrode process. Thus in the reduction water to evolve H2 gas, if the slow step is the reaction of with the metal M to form surface hydrogen atoms, M—H, a is expected to be about If, on the other hand, the slow step is the surface combination of two hydrogen atoms to form H2, a second-order process, then a should be 2 (see Ref. 150). 

As botli processes, reduction and oxidation, take place on tlie same electrode surface (a short-circuited system), it is not possible to directly measure tlie corrosion current. Experimentally, only tlie sum of tlie anodic and catliodic... 

J. D. Turner, P. K. Weiner, H. M. Chun, V. Lupi, S. Gallion, and U. C. Singh. Variable reduction techniques applied to molecular dynamics simulations. In W. F. van Gunsteren, P. K. Weiner, and A. J. Wilkinson, editors. Computer Simulation of Biomolecular Systems Theoretical and Experimental Applications, volume 2, chapter 24. ESCOM, Leiden, The Netherlands, 1993. 

The first finite element schemes for differential viscoelastic models that yielded numerically stable results for non-zero Weissenberg numbers appeared less than two decades ago. These schemes were later improved and shown that for some benchmark viscoelastic problems, such as flow through a two-dimensional section with an abrupt contraction (usually a width reduction of four to one), they can generate simulations that were qualitatively comparable with the experimental evidence. A notable example was the coupled scheme developed by Marchal and Crochet (1987) for the solution of Maxwell and Oldroyd constitutive equations. To achieve stability they used element subdivision for the stress approximations and applied inconsistent streamline upwinding to the stress terms in the discretized equations. In another attempt, Luo and Tanner (1989) developed a typical decoupled scheme that started with the solution of the constitutive equation for a fixed-flow field (e.g. obtained by initially assuming non-elastic fluid behaviour). The extra stress found at this step was subsequently inserted into the equation of motion as a pseudo-body force and the flow field was updated. These authors also used inconsistent streamline upwinding to maintain the stability of the scheme. 

Experimental details are given for o-phenylenedlamlne, which is conveniently prepared by the reduction of o-nitroaniline in alcoholic sodium hydroxide solution with zinc powder ... 

Experimental details for the following reductions are given below ... 

METHOD 5 Contributed by Osmium [53], The paper reads (at least to Strike) that this reduction method can work to reduce the formyl intermediate made in the Leuckart reaction directly into MDMA instead of needing to hydrolyze to MDA with HCi (don t ask). For this reaction one substitutes an equimolar amount of p-Nitropropene for the 3,4-dimethoxybenzylcyanide in the representative experimental below ... 

Thus reduction of the 5-thiocyanato group of 151 by zinc (333, 360, 361) or aqueous sodium sulfide (348. 362), hydrolysis of the thiouronium group (7, 363, 364), and deacetylation of the 5-acetylthiothiazole with cold piperidine (365) have been performed to yield the 5-mercapto-thiazole (Scheme 78). It must be pointed out that depending on the experimental conditions, bis(5-thiazolyl(sulfide may be observed as a byproduct (363, 365). Thus 5-amino-4-methylthiazole (152) treated with... 

Nimura, Y. Carr, M. R. Reduction of the Relative Error in the Standard Additions Method, Analyst 1990, 115, 1589-1595. The following paper discusses the importance of weighting experimental data when using linear regression Karolczak, M. To Weight or Not to Weight An Analyst s Dilemma, Curr. Separations 1995, 13, 98-104. 

In describing the various mechanical properties of polymers in the last chapter, we took the attitude that we could make measurements on any time scale we chose, however long or short, and that such measurements were made in isothermal experiments. Most of the experimental results presented in Chap. 3 are representations of this sort. In that chapter we remarked several times that these figures were actually the result of reductions of data collected at different temperatures. Now let us discuss this technique our perspective, however, will be from the opposite direction taking an isothermal plot apart. 

An approach to copolymerization has been advanced by Price and Alfrey which attempts to both combine resonance and polarity considerations and accomplish the data reduction strategy of the last paragraph. It should be conceded at the outset that the Price-Alfrey method is only semiquantitative in its success. Its greatest usefulness is probably in providing some orientation to a new system before launching an experimental investigation. 

A great deal of experimental work has also been done to identify and quantify the ha2ards of explosive operations (30—40). The vulnerabiUty of stmctures and people to shock waves and fragment impact has been well estabUshed. This effort has also led to the design of protective stmctures superior to the conventional barricades which permit considerable reduction ia allowable safety distances. In addition, a variety of techniques have been developed to mitigate catastrophic detonations of explosives exposed to fire. 

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