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For more fibrous solids, such as sugar cane, which is leached with water to remove the sugar, it has been shown [35] that leaching is generally more efficient in a thoroughly agitated vessel than by percolation, probably because the large amount of static liquid holdup (see Chap. 6) makes important amounts of solute unavailable. 

Some companies have used the Merseburg process to manufacture ammonium sulfate from gypsum, but the process is only economically attractive where sulfur is unavailable or very expensive (32), and is thus not used in the United States. Ammonium carbonate, formed by the reaction of ammonia and carbon dioxide in an aqueous medium, reacts with suspended, finely ground gypsum. Insoluble calcium carbonate and an ammonium sulfate solution are formed. 

The largest use of calcium hypochlorite is for water treatment. It is also used for I I and household disinfectants, cleaners, and mildewcides. Most of the household uses have been limited to in-tank toilet bowl cleaners. In areas where chlorine cannot be shipped or is otherwise unavailable, calcium hypochlorite is used to bleach textiles in commercial laundries and textile mills. It is usually first converted to sodium hypochlorite by mixing it with an aqueous solution of sodium carbonate and removing the precipitated calcium carbonate. Or, it can be dissolved in the presence of sufficient sodium tripolyphosphate to prevent the precipitation of calcium salts. However, calcium hypochlorite is not usually used to bleach laundry and textiles because of problems with insoluble inorganic calcium salts and precipitation of soaps and anionic detergents as their calcium salts. 

If appropriate enthalpy data are unavailable, estimates can be obtained by first defining reference states for both solute and solvent. Often the most convenient reference states are crystalline solute and pure solvent at an arbitrarily chosen reference temperature. The reference temperature selected usually corresponds to that at which the heat of crystallization A/ of the solute is known. The heat of crystallization is approximately equal to the negative of the heat of solution. For example, if the heat of crystallization is known at then reasonable reference conditions would be the solute as a soUd and the solvent as a Uquid, both at The specific enthalpies then could be evaluated as... 

Recalling the plate theory, it must be emphasized that (Vm) is not the same as (Vm)-(Vm) is the moving phase and a significant amount of (Vm) will be static (e.g., that contained in the pores). It should also be pointed out that the same applies to the volume of stationary phase, (Vs), which is not the same as (Vs), which may include material that is unavailable to the solute due to exclusion. 

The Systems Module constructs and displays fault trees using EASYFLOW which aic read automatically to generate minimal cutsets that can be transferred, for solution, to SETS. CAFT A. or IRRAS and then transferred to RISKMAN for point estimates and uncertainty analysi,s using Monte Carlo simulations or Latin hypercube. Uncertainty analysis is performed on the systems lev el using a probability quantification model and using Monte Carlo simulations from unavailability distributions. 

If an analytical solution is available, the method of nonlinear regression analysis can be applied this approach is described in Chapter 2 and is not treated further here. The remainder of the present section deals with the analysis of kinetic schemes for which explicit solutions are either unavailable or unhelpful. First, the technique of numerical integration is introduced. 

Fresh magnesium turnings for Grignard reaction can be used if suitable powder is unavailable, but initiation of reaction is likely to be prolonged, and the subsequent addition of the halide solution should occupy at least 30 minutes, longer if possible. 

When we deal with the subject of reactions in solution, which has been our primary emphasis, we are not concerned with ab initio calculations of Ki, since in general the partition functions are unavailable for the participants. 

Neat DEAD was unavailable from commercial sources at the time the procedure was being checked. Therefore, the checkers used a commercially available 40% solution of DEAD in toluene with results comparable to that described in the original procedure. 

During the lifetime of a root, considerable depletion of the available mineral nutrients (MN) in the rhizosphere is to be expected. This, in turn, will affect the equilibrium between available and unavailable forms of MN. For example, dissolution of insoluble calcium or iron phosphates may occur, clay-fixed ammonium or potassium may be released, and nonlabile forms of P associated with clay and sesquioxide surfaces may enter soil solution (10). Any or all of these conversions to available forms will act to buffer the soil solution concentrations and reduce the intensity of the depletion curves around the root. However, because they occur relatively slowly (e.g., over hours, days, or weeks), they cannot be accounted for in the buffer capacity term and have to be included as separate source (dCldl) terms in Eq. (8). Such source terms are likely to be highly soil specific and difficult to measure (11). Many rhizosphere modelers have chosen to ignore them altogether, either by dealing with soils in which they are of limited importance or by growing plants for relatively short periods of time, where their contribution is small. Where such terms have been included, it is common to find first-order kinetic equations being used to describe the rate of interconversion (12). 

The major problem with the intravenous route in children is dosing errors. Because of the unavailability of stock solutions prepared for pediatric doses, errors in dilution of an adult stock solution have resulted in 10- to 20-fold errors in administered doses [87,88], A secondary problem is the maintenance of patent intravenous lines in infants and nonsedated children. 

Intravenous (i.v.) solutions are commonly administered to patients in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and ambulances. They are used primarily to replace body fluids and to serve as a vehicle for injecting drugs into the body. The advantages of this pharmaceutical dosage form include the rapid onset of action, the ability to treat patients unable to take medication orally and the ability to administer a medication unavailable in any other dosage form. 

The use temperature of an elastomer is determined by the range between the T and the Tm. These new OBCs have increased the use temperature range of olefin-based elastomers by > 40 °C, enabling the introduction of these polymers to many new markets and applications where a simple olefin-based solution was previously unavailable. This performance translates to better high temperature elastomeric properties for the OBCs. For example, the 70 °C compression set of an OBC is much lower than that of a comparable ethylene/LAO random copolymer and is closer to that of f-PVC, TPU, or TPV materials [47] (Fig. 23). 

Unless otherwise indicated, chemical and physical properties are for the pure or production quality material. Properties of mixed, binary, thickened, or dusty agents, even those in solutions, will have physical and chemical properties that vary from the listed values. These variations will depend on the proportion of agent to other materials (e.g., solvents, thickener, etc.) and the properties of these other materials. If available, data on mixtures or modified agents (e.g., salts) are included. For any given parameters, a dash (i.e., —) means that the value is unavailable because it has not been determined or has not been published. 

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