Sample dyeing

To test a dye, dyed test specimen from both the sample dye and the standard are compared under conditions that are as identical as possible and assessed visually or colorimetrically and then calculated in relative terms to the standard. A widely used method to calculate color strength is a determination based on the weighted sum of the K/S values (K is the coefficient of absorption, S the coefficient of scatter), which is used in standard specifications [21],... 

Salting out, 39 Sample dyeing, 375 Sandmeyer reaction, 9, 67,161, 163 Schaeffer acid (and salt), see 2-Naphthol-6-sulfonic add Schultz dye tables, 399 Screw press, 20, 107 Separation reaction products, 27 Silver salt, see Antfaraquinone-2-sulfonic add... 

Spectrometric methods such as IR spectroscopy give information on the main components of the examined samples (dyes, resins and oily liquids). The main pigments are easily detectable in the IR spectra of inks. Because of its non-destructive nature, Raman spectroscopy is applied in forensic investigations for the identification of inks directly on a document, and for determination of the... 

Do not use sample dyes or protein buffer solutions containing DTT or other substances that react with thiourea. 2-Mercaptoethanol should be used as a reducing agent in the sample buffer. 

Figure B2.1.7 Transient hole-burned speetra obtained at room temperature with a tetrapyrrole-eontaining light-harvesting protein subunit, the a subunit of C-phyeoeyanin. Top fluoreseenee and absorption speetra of the sample superimposed with die speetnuu of the 80 fs pump pulses used in the experiment, whieh were obtained from an amplified CPM dye laser operating at 620 mn. Bottom absorption-diflferenee speetra obtained at a series of probe time delays.

In this experiment mixtures of dyes are used to provide a means for determining spectrophotometrically a sample s pH. 

The concentration of phenol in a water sample is determined by separating the phenol from nonvolatile impurities by steam distillation, followed by reacting with 4-aminoantipyrine and K3Ee(CN)g at pH 7.9 to form a colored antipyrine dye. A phenol standard with a concentration of... 

Figure 9.22 illustrates how a CARS experiment might be carried out. In order to vary (vj — V2) in Equation (9.18) one laser wavenumber, Vj, is fixed and V2 is varied. Here, Vj is frequency-doubled Nd YAG laser radiation at 532 nm, and the V2 radiation is that of a dye laser which is pumped by the same Nd YAG laser. The two laser beams are focused with a lens L into the sample cell C making a small angle 2a with each other. The collimated CARS radiation emerges at an angle 3 a to the optic axis, is spatially filtered from Vj and V2... 

The direct microscopic count determines the number of viable and dead microorganisms ia a milk sample. A small amount (0.01 mL) of milk is spread over a 1.0 cm area on a microscope sHde and allowed to dry. After staining with an appropriate dye, usually methylene blue, the sHde is examined with the aid of a microscope (oil immersion lens). The number of bacterial cells and clumps of cells per microscopic field is determined and, by appropriate calculations, is expressed as the number of organisms per milliliter of sample. 

Because of the time and expense involved, biological assays are used primarily for research purposes. The first chemical method for assaying L-ascorbic acid was the titration with 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol solution (76). This method is not appHcable in the presence of a variety of interfering substances, eg, reduced metal ions, sulfites, tannins, or colored dyes. This 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol method and other chemical and physiochemical methods are based on the reducing character of L-ascorbic acid (77). Colorimetric reactions with metal ions as weU as other redox systems, eg, potassium hexacyanoferrate(III), methylene blue, chloramine, etc, have been used for the assay, but they are unspecific because of interferences from a large number of reducing substances contained in foods and natural products (78). These methods have been used extensively in fish research (79). A specific photometric method for the assay of vitamin C in biological samples is based on the oxidation of ascorbic acid to dehydroascorbic acid with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (80). In the microfluorometric method, ascorbic acid is oxidized to dehydroascorbic acid in the presence of charcoal. The oxidized form is reacted with o-phenylenediamine to produce a fluorescent compound that is detected with an excitation maximum of ca 350 nm and an emission maximum of ca 430 nm (81). 

Several colorimetric procedures for fluoride are available, but it is usually desirable to distill the sample from concentrated sulfuric acid prior to analysis to eliminate interferences. One method is based upon bleaching a dye formed by the reaction of zirconium and sodium 2-(p-sulfophenylazo)-l,8-dihydroxy-3,6-naphthalenedisulfonate (SPADNS reagent) (28). 

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