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Bishop [75] determined barium in seawater by direct injection Zeeman-modulated graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry. The V203/Si modifier added to undiluted seawater samples promotes injection, sample drying, graphite tube life, and the elimination of most seawater components in a slow char at 1150-1200 °C. Atomisation is at 2600 °C. Detection is at 553.6 nm and calibration is by peak area. Sensitivity is 0.8 absorbance s/ng (Mo = 5.6 pg 0.0044 absorbance s) at an internal argon flow of 60 ml/min. The detection limit is 2.5 pg barium in a 25 ml sample or 0.5 pg using a 135 ml sample. Precision is 1.2% and accuracy is 23% for natural seawater (5.6-28 xg/l). The method works well in organic-rich seawater matrices and sediment porewaters. 

C °0 mixture was that uptake of N 0(s) commenced at 280°C which was ca. 220°C lower than onset of a much smaller decrease over the same material under N 0 only. Furthermore that onset at 280°C was accompanied by a parallel decrease in C 0(g) and by onset of increases in CO2 products, thereby indicating that the pre-oxidised Rh203 sample promoted reaction(s) between N 0(g) and C 0(g) at temperatures 280 -> 600°C. Since no N2 0 or N2 0 was detected, reaction with 1 1 stoichiometry appeared to be favoured so that C 0 0 could be expected as the primary product fi-om 0 + -> /2 N2... 

Salting Out Effects The process that, through the addition of salt to a liquid sample, promotes the evaporation of the substances from the matrix, according to the physical-chemical properties of the substance involved. In general, the salting out effect depends on the compound polarity. 

When 2 and 7% of (Cu+Cr) mixture are introduced, the cerium modified support pretreated at 773 K, exhibits only its own lines, while when 15% of (Cr+Cu) is supported, the lines of roughly dispersed copper oxide are observed. According to X-ray patterns, the lines intensity of the spinel-based solid solutions increases with the increase of the supported components concentration. At 1273 K, all the studied samples reveal the presence of a-Al203 with the increased cell parameter and the spinel-type solid solution with a parameter typical for Cu(Alx,8Cro.2)04. Concentration of components introduced determine a-Al203 content. The content of a-oxide is considerably lower in the sample promoted with a 7% (Cu+Cr) mixture than in the pure alumina. 

Together with formation of the phase compositiorr, changes of specific srrrface area occttr (Sbet)- It is seen (Table 1) that Sbbt of the samples calcined at 700°C is 30 - 60 m /g. At the same time, addition of Al in the samples promotes increase in Sbet... 

Investigations into the influence of humidity on the ionic conductivity values of the ionic conducting samples based on plasticized starch were reported by Rodrigues and Pawlicka. The authors of this study showed that the increase in the humidity of the samples promotes an increase in the ionic conductivity the sample with salt concentration of [0]/[Li] = 11... 

There are many other experiments in which surface atoms have been purposely moved, removed or chemically modified with a scanning probe tip. For example, atoms on a surface have been induced to move via interaction with the large electric field associated with an STM tip [78]. A scaiming force microscope has been used to create three-dimensional nanostructures by pushing adsorbed particles with the tip [79]. In addition, the electrons that are tunnelling from an STM tip to the sample can be used as sources of electrons for stimulated desorption [80]. The tuimelling electrons have also been used to promote dissociation of adsorbed O2 molecules on metal or semiconductor surfaces [81, 82]. 

Molybdenum trioxide is a condensed-phase flame retardant (26). Its decomposition products ate nonvolatile and tend to increase chat yields. Two parts of molybdic oxide added to flexible poly(vinyl chloride) that contains 30 parts of plasticizer have been shown to increase the chat yield from 9.9 to 23.5%. Ninety percent of the molybdenum was recovered from the chat after the sample was burned. A reaction between the flame retardant and the chlorine to form M0O2 012 H20, a nonvolatile compound, was assumed. This compound was assumed to promote chat formation (26,27). 

In general, polycarbonate resins have fair chemical resistance to aqueous solutions of acids or bases, as well as to fats and oils. Chemical attack by amines or ammonium hydroxide occurs, however, and aUphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons promote crazing of stressed molded samples. Eor these reasons, care must be exercised in the choice of solvents for painting and coating operations. Eor sheet appHcations, polycarbonate is commonly coated with a sihcone—sihcate hardcoat which provides abrasion resistance as well as increased solvent resistance. Coated films are also available. 

Instrumental Interfaces. The basic objective for any coupling between a gas chromatograph (gc) and a mass spectrometer (ms) is to reduce the atmospheric operating pressure of the gc effluent to the operating pressure in the ms which is about 10 kPa (10 torr). Essential interface features include the capability to transmit the maximum amount of sample from the gc without losses from condensation or active sites promoting decomposition no restrictions or compromises placed on either the ms or the gc with regard to resolution of the components and reliability. The interface should also be mechanically simple and as low in cost as possible. 

Bosch and co-workers devised laboratory reactors to operate at high pressure and temperature in a recycle mode. These test reactors had the essential characteristics of potential industrial reactors and were used by Mittasch and co-workers to screen some 20,000 samples as candidate catalysts. The results led to the identification of an iron-containing mineral that is similar to today s industrial catalysts. The researchers recognized the need for porous catalytic materials and materials with more than one component, today identified as the support, the catalyticaHy active component, and the promoter. Today s technology for catalyst testing has become more efficient because much of the test equipment is automated, and the analysis of products and catalysts is much faster and more accurate. 

The tteatment with y quantum promotes the inereasing of mobility of eharged partieles- protons during ehemieal reaetions. Aeeording to FTIR speetroseopy during y-iiTadiation of the sample by 3-80 kGy dozes the dehydratation of the surfaee takes plaee. 

A powerful and general technique to enhance sampling is the use of umbrella potentials, discussed in Section IV. In the context of alchemical free energy simulations, for example, umbrella potentials have been used both to bias the system toward an experimentally determined conformation [26] and to promote conformational transitions by reducing dihedral and van der Waals energy terms involving atoms near a mutation site [67]. 

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