Solubility reproducibility

Lin, Y. and Finke, R.G., Novel polyoxoanion- and Bu4N+-Stabilized, Isolable, and Redissolvable, 20-30 nm Ir300 900 nanoclusters the kinetically controlled synthesis, characterization, and mechanism of formation of organic solvent-soluble, reproducible size, and reproducible catalytic activity metal... 

Figure 92. Effect of grinding time on the degradation of aspirin in suspension at 40°C. o, Zero-order rate constant , solubility. (Reproduced from Ref. 414 with permission.)...

Figure 5.28. Differential scanning calorimetry of model protein, plotted (with heat absorption peak down) as function of increasing degree of ionization of carboxyl function. Ionization to form less than 2 carboxylates per 100 residues reduces the heat of the transition to about one-fourth. Charge destroys hydrophobic hydration, raises T and gives rise to solubility. (Reproduced with permission from Urry et al. )...

Figuke 7.49. Effect of prolyl hydroxylation on hydrophobic association (insolubility). Temperature profiles show turbidity formation due to the aggregation attending the onset of the inverse temperature transition. The value for the onset temperature is taken at 50% of the maximal turbidity and is called T,. Hydroxylation markedly shifts the polymer to solubility. (Reproduced with permission from Urry et al. )... 

Figure 9. Comparative Caffeine (open symbols) and DP-012 (closed symbols) Response for P. americana neurons ( ), Sf9 Cells Expressing Recombinant D. melanogaster RyR ("), and the Rat Pheochromocytoma Cell Line, PCI2 ( )-DP-012 Concentrations Higher than 200 pM Were Not Investigated Due to Limited Aqueous Solubility. Reproduced with permission from Reference 4. Copyright 2005 Elsevier)...

Figure A2.5.18. Body-centred cubic arrangement of (3-brass (CiiZn) at low temperature showing two interpenetrating simple cubic superlattices, one all Cu, the other all Zn, and a single lattice of randomly distributed atoms at high temperature. Reproduced from Hildebrand J H and Scott R L 1950 The Solubility of Nonelectrolytes 3rd edn (New York Reinliold) p 342.

Reference Electrodes and Liquid Junctions. The electrical cincuit of the pH ceU is completed through a salt bridge that usually consists of a concentrated solution of potassium chloride [7447-40-7]. The solution makes contact at one end with the test solution and at the other with a reference electrode of constant potential. The Hquid junction is formed at the area of contact between the salt bridge and the test solution. The mercury—mercurous chloride electrode, the calomel electrode, provides a highly reproducible potential in the potassium chloride bridge solution and is the most widely used reference electrode. However, mercurous chloride is converted readily into mercuric ion and mercury when in contact with concentrated potassium chloride solutions above 80°C. This disproportionation reaction causes an unstable potential with calomel electrodes. Therefore, the silver—silver chloride electrode and the thallium amalgam—thallous chloride electrode often are preferred for measurements above 80°C. However, because silver chloride is relatively soluble in concentrated solutions of potassium chloride, the solution in the electrode chamber must be saturated with silver chloride. 

MQ resins are commercially manufactured by one of two processes the ethyl sihcate or the sodium sihcate process. In the ethyl sihcate process, these resins were first prepared by cohydrolysis of tetraethoxysilane and trimethylchlorosilane in the presence of an aromatic solvent (eq. 34). This process is versatile and reproducible it can be used to prepare soluble MQ resins with M/Q ratios ranging between 0.6 and 4. The products of these reactions typically contain high levels of residual alkoxysilane groups. 

The detergent method for insoluble fiber superseded the cmde fiber method and became the method of choice for insoluble fiber analysis until the 1980s, when methods were developed to recover soluble fiber as well. Some analysts still prefer the NDF procedure for insoluble fiber. The method is simple, inexpensive, reproducible, and amenable to routine assays. The disadvantage is the inabiUty to recover the soluble fraction. See Reference 14 for more information on detergent methods. 

Prepa.ra.tlon, There are several methods described in the Hterature using various cobalt catalysts to prepare syndiotactic polybutadiene (29—41). Many of these methods have been experimentally verified others, for example, soluble organoaluminum compounds with cobalt compounds, are difficult to reproduce (30). A cobalt compound coupled with triphenylphosphine aluminum alkyls water complex was reported byJapan Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd. (fSR) to give a low melting point (T = 75-90° C), low crystallinity (20—30%) syndiotactic polybutadiene (32). This polymer is commercially available. 

There are numerous solubility data in the literature the standard reference is by Seidell (loc. cit.). Valuable as they are, they nevertheless must be used with caution because the solubihty of compounds is often influenced by pH and/or the presence of other soluble impurities which usually tend to depress the solubihty of the major constituents. While exact values for any system are frequently best determined by actual composition measurements, the difficulty of reproducing these solubility diagrams should not be underestimated. To obtain data which are readily reproducible, elaborate pains must be taken to be sure the system sampled is at equihbrium, and often this means holding a sample at constant temperature for a period of from 1 to 100 h. While the published cui ves may not be exac t for actual solutions of interest, they generally will be indicative of the shape of the solubility cui ve and will show the presence of hydrates or double salts. 

Sn02, cassiterite, is the main ore of tin and it crystallizes with a rutile-type structure (p. 961). It is insoluble in water and dilute acids or alkalis but dissolves readily in fused alkali hydroxides to form stannates M Sn(OH)6. Conversely, aqueous solutions of tin(IV) salts hydrolyse to give a white precipitate of hydrous tin(IV) oxide which is readily soluble in both acids and alkalis thereby demonstrating the amphoteric nature of tin(IV). Sn(OH)4 itself is not known, but a reproducible product of empirical formula Sn02.H20 can be obtained by drying the hydrous gel at 110°, and further dehydration... 

Figure 14 The variation of average size of the polystyrene particles by the average solubility parameter of the homogeneous alcohol-water dispersion medium. (From Ref. 89. Reproduced with the permission of John Wiley Sons, Inc.)...

Figure 9-85. Solubility of chlorine in water. Reproduced by permission of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Vivian, J. E. and Whitney, R. R, Chemical Engineering Progress, V. 43 (1947) p. 691 ail rights reserved.

In the absence of sufficient hydrogen, the solubility of magnetite is markedly temperature dependent, which provides an explanation for some of the problems in high-temperature circuits. Most studies in boilers relate to high temperatures. Thus the work of Bloom " and of Potter and Mann has reproduced the types of corrosion found in high-pressure boilers. The relationship between corrosion rates and iron solubility and pH are given in Fig. 17.2. Note that the pH range about the neutral point (relative to 300 C... 

Electrodes such as Cu VCu which are reversible with respect to the ions of the metal phase, are referred to as electrodes of the first kind, whereas electrodes such as Ag/AgCl, Cl" that are based on a sparingly soluble salt in equilibrium with its saturated solution are referred to as electrodes of the second kind. All reference electrodes must have reproducible potentials that are defined by the activity of the species involved in the equilibrium and the potential must remain constant during, and subsequent to, the passage of small quantities of charge during the measurement of another potential. 

Fig. 3. Potassium fluorotantalate, KfTaFy, solubility in HF solutions at 25°C Reproduced from [53], G. S. Savchenko, I. V. Tananaev, Zh. Prikl. Khim 20 (1947) 385, Copyright 1947, with permission of Nauka (Russian Academy of Sciences) publishing.

Discussion. Minute amounts of beryllium may be readily determined spectrophotometrically by reaction under alkaline conditions with 4-nitrobenzeneazo-orcinol. The reagent is yellow in a basic medium in the presence of beryllium the colour changes to reddish-brown. The zone of optimum alkalinity is rather critical and narrow buffering with boric acid increases the reproducibility. Aluminium, up to about 240 mg per 25 mL, has little influence provided an excess of 1 mole of sodium hydroxide is added for each mole of aluminium present. Other elements which might interfere are removed by preliminary treatment with sodium hydroxide solution, but the possible co-precipitation of beryllium must be considered. Zinc interferes very slightly but can be removed by precipitation as sulphide. Copper interferes seriously, even in such small amounts as are soluble in sodium hydroxide solution. The interference of small amounts of copper, nickel, iron and calcium can be prevented by complexing with EDTA and triethanolamine. 

Further investigations, however, have shown that the above four-component peptide condensation is exceptionally efficient in terms of stereoselectivity70. A number of factors, including side reactions and insufficient solubility, influence this complex multistep reaction and these results cannot be reproduced with other amino acid combinations71. 

Purinergic System. Figure 2 Schematic of sympathetic cotransmission. ATP and NA released from small granular vesicles (SGV) act on P2X and a-i receptors on smooth muscle, respectively. ATP acting on inotropic P2X receptors evokes excitatory junction potentials (EJPs), increase in intracellular calcium ([Ca2+]j) and fast contraction while occupation of metabotropic ar-adrenoceptors leads to production of inositol triphosphate (IP3), increase in [Ca2+]j and slow contraction. Neuropeptide Y (NPY) stored in large granular vesicles (LGV) acts after release both as a prejunctional inhibitory modulator of release of ATP and NA and as a postjunctional modulatory potentiator of the actions of ATP and NA. Soluble nucleotidases are released from nerve varicosities, and are also present as ectonucleotidases. (Reproduced from Burnstock G (2007) Neurotransmission, neuromodulation cotransmission. In Squire LR (ed) New encyclopaedia of neuroscience. Elsevier, The Netherlands (In Press), with permission from Elsevier). 

As an even more explicit example of this effect Figure 6 shows that EPM is able to reproduce fairly well the experimentally observed dependence of the particle number on surfactant concentration for a different monomer, namely methyl methacrylate (MMA). The polymerization was carried at 80°C at a fixed concentration of ammonium persulfate initiator (0.00635 mol dm 3). Because methyl methacrylate is much more water soluble than styrene, the drop off in particle number is not as steep around the critical micelle concentration (22.) In this instance the experimental data do show a leveling off of the particle number at high and low surfactant concentrations as expected from the theory of particle formation by coagulative nucleation of precursor particles formed by homogeneous nucleation, which has been incorporated into EPM. 

The most common catalyst used to date is chloroplatinic acid (also known, after its discoverer, as Speier s catalyst) it is now clear that, contrary to earlier views (23), hydrosilylation is a homogeneous process (25, 208). A major problem is that of reproducibility, and efforts are being made to utilize soluble transition metal complexes. Information about such systems has been used in the interpretation of some related catalytic heterogeneous reactions (232). 

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