Refractive index difference

When the voltage force and source of water are removed, most of the injected water diffuses away and evaporates, and the tree disappears. This disappearance indicates that channels or paths close up, because if they did not, their appearance would be enhanced rather than diminished when the water is replaced by air which has a greater refractive index difference with respect to polyethylene. 

In Table 1 values of 5 are given for some common inorganic and organic compounds. First notice that 5 is on the order of 10 . Therefore, the neutron refractive index differs from unity by only a small amount. With the exception of H2O and... 

In general, the multiphasic heterogenous nature of the impact grade styrene-based polymers is the root cause of their opaque-turbid nature. In determining the transparency of the blends, size and the size-distribution pattern of the dispersed phase along with the refractive index difference between the continuous and the dispersed phases are two very important criterion [133]. 

For the determination of the molecular weight (Mw) by light scattering, the number of solvent systems is limited. The refractive index difference should be at least 0.1 and the solvent should not have an electrolytic effect. Useful solvents include formic acid containing KC1 salt and fluorinated alcohols. 

What is a coating on a substrate It is a thin layer, of a stack of thin layers, made of materials with a refraction index different from that of the substrate. Part of the light is reflected at each interface between the layers or between air and the first layer or between the last one and the substrate. Reflected beams interfere so that for a given wavelength and a given thickness, reflected light can be either canceled out or maximized. It corresponds to maximum transmission or reflectivity of the layer respectively. These materials and their indexes are chosen in order to fit as close as possible the specifications for the final coated optics. 

In this study, four Styragel columns were utilized one column had a nominal porosity rating of 10, two colvtmns of 10, and the fourth column of 10 A. The refractometer was maintained at 37°C. A 5 ml syphon was used to monitor a solvent flow rate of 1 ml/min. The instrviment was run at the highest sensitivity setting because the refractive index difference between our solvent and polymer was only moderate and because a number of samples analyzed had a broad molecular weight distribution (MWD). 

The response of the experiment is the measured refractive index difference, which can be readily seen on the computer screen and also recorded by the chart recorder during operation. The descriptions of the experiments are as follows. 

Figure 1. Schematic of the optical fiber system. Excitation light is launched into the fiber. Due to the refractive index differences between the fiber core and cladding materials, the light is internally reflected and travels through the fiber with minimal loss (see inset). The emitted light is carried back from the fluorescent sensor located on the tip of the fiber to a CCD camera detector. Reprinted with permission from Science, 2000, 287, 451-452. Copyright 2000 AAAS.

The ideal HPLC detector should have the same characteristics as those required for GC detectors, i.e. rapid and reproducible response to solutes, a wide range of linear response, high sensitivity and stability of operation. No truly universal HPLC detector has yet been developed but the two most widely applicable types are those based on the absorption of UV or visible radiation by the solute species and those which monitor refractive index differences between solutes dissolved in the mobile phase and the pure mobile phase. Other detectors which are more selective in their response rely on such solute properties as fluorescence, electrical conductivity, diffusion currents (amperometric) and radioactivity. The characteristics of the various types of detector are summarized in Table 4.14. 

Seisakusho differential refractometer). For a solution of known concentration, the difference in refractive index, (n - nj>), between the liquid in the prism and that in the solvent bath causes refraction of the light beam, which is observed as a displacement 8 of the image at a distance d from the prism centre. The overall sensitivity depends on the precision of measuring 8 and the refractive index difference is given by... 

Using Equation 12.12 one obtains (AA/A — Av /v 2) = (Aao/ao). We see that precise refractive index differences measured over a reasonable range of wavelengths allow the recovery of the polarizability isotope effect (i.e. the isotope effect on the electric field induced dipole moment), provided the molar volume and its isotope effect are available. 

Fig. 12.4 Continuous dilution differential refractometric data for the C6H12/C6D12 isotopomer pair at 298.15 K. (a) through (d) are interferograms observed at 650, 559, 520 and 470 nm, respectively. (e) shows refractive index differences derived from the interferograms left to right 650, 559, 520 and 470 nm) and (f) is a dispersion plot of the data. In (f) the interferometric data are compared with the result at 589.3 nm obtained by Abbe refractometry, which nicely illustrates the better precision of CDDR (Reprinted from Wieczorek, S. A., Urbanczyk, A. and Van Hook. W. A., J Chem. Thermodyn. 28, 1009 (1996) copyright 1996 with permission from Elsevier)...

In general, measuring beads requires less laser power than measuring cells because of their higher index of refraction (n 1.5 for polystyrene beads vs. n 1.37 for cells).15 The optical force imparted to a particle scales with the difference in index of refraction between the particle and the fluidic medium.16 For bead measurements, we typically operate at a laser power of 2.5 W, whereas for cell measurements the laser is operated at 10 W to obtain similar displacements. These relative power levels are in line with the comparative refractive index differences between the two different particle types and water. 

Those experimentalists who use spectrophotometry or spectrofluorimetry to measure rates of biochemical reactions should always be mindful that bubble clearance frequently displays first-order kinetics. This applies to bubbles adhering to the inside wall of the cuvette as well as bubbles released from solution itself. The presence of bubbles within a cuvette may introduce artifactual kinetic behavior resulting (a) from refractive index differences between the gas trapped in the bubbles and that of the test solution, and (b) from the high reflectance of the air/water interface surrounding some bubbles. 

Where n is the refractive index difference between the polymer in... 

Uping step changes in the concentration of benzene, the response was correlated with the calculated refractive index difference (ARI) at an attenuation of 4x. 

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