Spectroscopically uniform

Bare et al. (2006) described two cell designs, one for transmission XAFS and one for fluorescence measurements, whereby all of the critical components could be purchased commercially, with little machining required. The designs are simple, robust, and relatively low in cost. The basis of the designs is a quartz tube with windows fabricated from an appropriate material. The tube is heated by a clamshell furnace. The catalyst powder (with or without diluent) is hand-pressed into a quartz sample holder that is inserted into the quartz tube. Thus, a spectroscopically uniform sample is obtained without the high pressure compaction that is necessary to obtain a self-supporting wafer. The cell has been operated at temperatures from 80 to 1373 K, but the maximum working pressure is only approximately 1 bar. 

Oxonin (1, X = O) has polyenic character, is heavily buckled and is thermally rather unstable. Azonines 1 (X = NR) incorporating electron-withdrawing groups R on nitrogen are also uniformly characterized as olefinic compounds They are thermally labile and are decidedly atropic according to their spectroscopic data. 

There are no known examples of supported clusters dispersed in crystallo-graphically equivalent positions on a crystalline support. Thus, no structures have been determined by X-ray diffraction crystallography, and the best available methods for structure determination are various spectroscopies (with interpretations based on comparisons with spectra of known compoimds) and microscopy. The more nearly uniform the clusters and their bonding to a support, the more nearly definitive are the spectroscopic methods however, the uniformities of these samples are not easy to assess, and the best microscopic methods are limited by the smallness of the clusters and their tendency to be affected by the electron beam in a transmission electron microscope furthermore, most supported metal clusters are highly reactive and... 

Symmetrical cyanine dyes, because of the resonance shown in Figure 6.4 (in which the two contributing structures are exactly equivalent), are completely symmetrical molecules. X-ray crystal structure determinations and NMR spectroscopic analysis have demonstrated that the dyes are essentially planar and that the carbon-carbon bond lengths in the polymethine chain are uniform. The colour of cyanine dyes depends mainly on the nature of the terminal groups and on the length of the polymethine chain. The bathochromicity of the dyes is found to increase... 

In Chapters 63 through 67 [1-5], we devised a test for the amount of nonlinearity present in a set of comparative data (e.g., as are created by any of the standard methods of calibration for spectroscopic analysis), and then discovered a flaw in the method. The concept of a measure of nonlinearity that is independent of the units that the X and Y data have is a good one. The flaw is that the nonlinearity measurement depends on the distribution of the data uniformly distributed data will provide one value, Normally distributed data will provide a different value, randomly distributed (i.e., what is commonly found in real data sets) will give still a different value, and so forth, even if the underlying relationship between the pairs of values is the same in all cases. 

Soon after the discovery of the first extra-solar planets, it has been noticed that planet-host stars these were particularly metal-rich when compared with single field dwarfs [12], i.e., on average they present a metal-content that is above the one found in stars now known to have any planetary-mass companion. This result, clearly confirmed by an uniform spectroscopic analysis of large samples of stars with and without detected giant planets [22] is obtained by using different... 

Combining the results of the spectroscopic and kinetic experiments allows us to partially confirm one aspect of the mechanism for CO oxidation. The IRRAS results showed that the nitrile molecules are able to disrupt the continuity of the CO adlayer at the molecular scale by blocking a fraction of the surface Pt atoms. This is in contrast to the procedure of preparing a partial CO adlayer by controlling the exposure to bulk solution, which produces a uniformly distributed CO layer without blocking Pt atoms by a second adsorbate (12). The fact that there is no evidence for enhanced CO oxidation kinetics in the solutions with added nitriles indicates that the presence of an exposed Pt atom next to the... 

The copyrolysis of 1 wt% dibromotetrafluoro-p-xylylene with commercially available hexafluoro-p-xylene (Aldrich) with metals was examined and it was found that it was indeed possible to prepare films that were spectroscopically indistinguishable from those deposited from dimer. The PA-F films obtained are of excellent quality, having dielectric constants of2.2-2.3 at 1 MHz and dissociation temperatures up to 530°C in N2. A uniformity of better than 10% can be routinely achieved with a 0.5-gm-thick film on a 5-in. silicon wafer with no measurable impurities as determined by XPS. During a typical deposition, the precursor was maintained at 50°C, the reaction zone (a ceramic tube packed with Cu or Ni) was kept at 375-550°C, and the substrate was cooled to -10 to -20°C. The deposited film had an atomic composition, C F 0 = 66 33 1 3 as determined by XPS. Except for 0, no impurities were detected. Within instrumental error, the film is stoichiometric. Poly(tetrafluoro-p-xylylene) has a theoretical composition ofC F = 2 1. Figure 18.2 illustrates the XPS ofthe binding energy... 

The development of mass spectroscopic techniques such as matrix assisted laser desorption (MALDI) and electrospray mass spectrometry has allowed the absolute determination of dendrimer perfection [7,8], For divergent dendrimers such as PAMAM and PPI, single flaws in the chemical structure can be measured as a function of generation to genealogically define an unreacted site of or a side reaction producing a loop at a particular generation level. Mass spectromet-ric results on dendrimers, not only demonstrate the extreme sensitivity of the technique, but also demonstrate the uniformity of the molecular mass. The polydispersity index of Mw/Mn for a G6 PAMAM dendrimer can be 1.0006 which is substantially narrower than that of living polymers of the same molecular mass [7],... 

A common phenomenon in the dissolution of silicate minerals is the formation of etch pits at the surface (90-91.,93-94). When this occurs, the overall rate of mineral dissolution is non-uniform, and dissolution occurs preferentially at dislocations or defects that intercept the crystal surface. Preferential dissolution of the mineral could explain why surface spectroscopic studies have failed... 

Procedure Triturate about 1 mg of the pharmaceutical substance with approximately 300 mg of dry, finely powdered KBr or KC1 of spectroscopic grade, as directed. Grind the mixture thoroughly, spread it uniformly in a suitable die and compress under vacuum at a pressure of about 10 t in-2. Mount the resultant disc in a suitable holder in the spectrophotometer and obtain the IR-spectrum. 

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