Factors affecting stability

The amount of financial assurance provided must account for changes in factors that affect the cost of future closure and stabilization. Factors affecting closure and stabilization cost estimates include... 

Two factors affect the stability of this orbital. The first is the stabilizing influence of the positively charged nuclei at the center of the AOs. This factor requires that the center of the AO be as close as possible to the nucleus. The other factor is the stabilizing overlap between the two constituent AOs, which requires that they approach each other as closely as possible. The best compromise is probably to shift the center of each AO slightly away from its own nucleus towards the other atom, as shown in figure 7-23a. However, these slightly shifted positions are only correct for this particular MO. Others may require a slight shift in the opposite direction. 

Galerkin method becomes unstable and useless. It can also be seen that these oscillations become more intensified as a becomes larger (note that the factor affecting the stability is the magnitude of a and oscillatory solutions will also result using large negative coefficients). 

Precision When the analyte s concentration is well above the detection limit, the relative standard deviation for fluorescence is usually 0.5-2%. The limiting instrumental factor affecting precision is the stability of the excitation source. The precision for phosphorescence is often limited by reproducibility in preparing samples for analysis, with relative standard deviations of 5-10% being common. 

Precision For samples and standards in which the concentration of analyte exceeds the detection limit by at least a factor of 50, the relative standard deviation for both flame and plasma emission is about 1-5%. Perhaps the most important factor affecting precision is the stability of the flame s or plasma s temperature. For example, in a 2500 K flame a temperature fluctuation of +2.5 K gives a relative standard deviation of 1% in emission intensity. Significant improvements in precision may be realized when using internal standards. 

Two principal factors affected the U.S. sulfuric acid industry in the 1980s. The first was the increased availabiUty of recovered sulfur vs Frasch sulfur (see SuLFURREMOVAL AND recovery). This occurred because of environmental concerns and regulations forcing more sulfur to be recovered at refineries, power plants, etc. The effect of this change was that the cost of sulfur in the marketplace became driven largely by the cost of nonsulfur industries, rather than by the traditional discretionary sulfur producers, and tended to stabilize U.S. sulfur prices. 

Bailey, A.L, Cardenas-Valera, A.E., Graft copolymers as stabilizers for oil-imwater emulsions. Part 2. Preparation of the emulsions and the factors affecting their stability. Colloids and Surfaces, v.97, pp.1-12, 1995. 

Factors Affecting the Stability of Donor-Acceptor Complexes ... 

X = alkyl, H, halogen, etc. They are usually colourless, crystalline compounds with mp in the range 0-100° for X = H and 50-200° for X = halogen. Synthetic routes, and factors affecting the stability of the adducts have already been discussed (p. 165 and p. 198). In cases where diborane undergoes unsymmetrical cleavage (e.g. with NH3) alternative routes must be devised ... 

Factors that influence thermal dimensional stability also affect fatigue strength. This is a result of the substantial heating that is often encountered with fatigue, particularly in TPs. 

S. J. Dyer, G. M. Graham, and K. S. Sorbie. Factors affecting the thermal stability of conventional scale inhibitors for application in high pressure/high temperature reservoirs. In Proceedings Volume, pages 167-177. SPE Oilfield Chem Int Symp (Houston, TX, 2/16-2/19), 1999. 

Researchers should be aware of, and account for, factors that can affect the performance of field studies with respect to precision, bias and possible error influences. The major factors affecting collectors, tracers and analytical approaches have been discussed elsewhere in this article. In summary, these are collection efficiency, stability and detection levels, respectively. Collection efficiency (or impaction parameter) for field samplers is related fo parficle/collector diameter and wind speed relationships, as summarized by the following equation developed by May and Clifford ... 

The third factor affecting dispersion is turbulence. Mechanical turbulence is caused by the roughness of the Earth s surface. Away from the surface, convective turbulence (heated air rising and cooler air falling) becomes increasingly important. The amount of turbulence and the height to which it operates depends on the surface roughness, wind speed and atmospheric stability. 

Although a number of factors affect structural evolution in sol-gel processing, many of the observed trends can be explained on the basis of the stability of the M-O-M bond in its synthesis environment. Structures which form in solution are the products of a successive series of hydrolysis, condensation and restructuring reactions. M-0-M bonds which are unstable with respect to hydrolysis and alcoholysis are absent. In borates this criterion precludes gelation for systems with insufficient fractions of 4-coordinated borons. In silicates... 

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