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Fabre et a/.28 used a projection operator technique to describe the Stark shifts at fields below where low states of large quantum defects join the manifold. A less formal explanation is as follows. If, for example, the s and p states are excluded, as in Fig. 6.13 below 800 V/cm, effectively only the nearly degenerate (22 states are coupled by the electric field. The only differences among the m = 0,1, and 2 manifolds occur in the angular parts of the matrix element, i.e.1... 

Lilly employees Stark and Hardison (1985) eventually published Protocol 27 in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. They did so without mentioning (a) that four of the five individual centers produced negative results before the data were pruned and pooled, (b) that even the pooled data were negative when Prozac patients taking sedatives and tranquilizers were excluded, (c) that the FDA had many criticisms of the study and its practices, or (d) that even the apparent success of the drug was marginal. The publication by Stark and Hardison claimed that Prozac was comparable to Tofranil in efficacy—a myth that gained considerable currency in the profession—when in fact, the older tricyclic outperformed Prozac most of the time. 

Water is a contaminant in gasoline and should be measured with the Karl Fischer method (ASTM E-203, ASTM D-1364, ASTM D-1744, ASTM D-4377, ASTM D-4928, ASTM D-6304), by distillation using a Dean and Stark condenser (ASTM D-4006) (Fig. 5.3), or by centrifuging (ASTM D-96) and excluded by relevant drying methods. 

In the -mixing region, Li has the peculiarity that the p electrons have a rather low quantum defect (pp 0.053). Care is needed to exclude nonhydrogenic effects. In particular, they can intrude in the presence of electric fields because the pe are not all hydrogenic. In an important experiment [569], the -mixed manifold was observed with no motional Stark effect, and the result is shown in fig. 10.13. 

When both fields are acting, the rotations of rx and r 2 occur about different axes. Thus the simple phase relation, which we had in the case of an electric field only, between the rotation of the line of nodes on the one hand and the orbital eccentricity and inclination on the other, will be destroyed and a much more complex motion sets in. Special difficulties arise when the two cones described by the vectors rx and r2 intersect. If the rotation frequencies are incommensurable, the vectors rx and r 2 will then approach indefinitely close to one another, and, therefore, the angular momentum becomes indefinitely small. If now the frequency of rotation in the ellipse is incommensurable with the other two frequencies, the electron approaches indefinitely close to the nucleus. On the basis of the fundamental principles we have previously used, we should have to exclude such motions. We shall see later, however, when fixing the quantum conditions, that such orbits may be transformed adia-batically into those of the pure Stark or Zeeman effect which we must allow. 

To achieve large electric fields, the separation of the Stark electrodes is made as small as possible (typically about 1 mm). This generally excludes an intracavity arrangement because the diffraction by this narrow aperture would introduce intolerably large losses. The Stark cell is therefore placed outside the resonator, and for enhanced sensitivity the electric field is modulated while the dc field is tuned. This modulation technique is also common in microwave spectroscopy. The accuracy of 10 " for the Stark field measurements allows a precise determination of the absolute value for the electric dipole moment. 

Crown ethers have also been utilized as phase transfer catalysts in solid-liquid phase transfer cyanide displacements. These reactions are generally carried out in methylene chloride or acetonitrile solution with 18-crown-6 as catalyst and solid potassium cyanide as nucleophile source [5, 6]. Small amounts of water are found not to affect the course of the reaction [5], suggesting some hydration of cyanide ion under these conditions. This is not surprising inasmuch as Starks reported that in the liquid-liquid phase transfer process, four to five molecules of water apparently accompanied each nucleophile into nonpolar solution [2]. It seems likely that if water were or could be rigorously excluded, (i.e., naked anions obtained), the reactivity of cyanide would be even higher. Despite the apparent similarity of the solid-liquid and liquid-liquid phase transfer processes, it should be noted that qualitative differences in the relative reactivity of primary alkyl halides (R—Cl vs. R—Br) have been observed for the crown and quaternary ion cases [2, 6]. Specifically, Starks found that for the reaction of cyanide ion with A2-octyl halides, methanesulfonate... 

I have chosen to include only those lines whose production requires what may be termed standard techniques . Electrically excited and optically pumped lasers are included, except those involving multi-photon systems, tunable pump lasers, or stark-shifted [1.16] far-infrared lasing. These are all useful techniques but beyond the purposes of this book. Gas-dynamic lasers [1.17], chemical lasers and molecular beam masers [1.18] are also excluded. 

What has not been included As mentioned, the lines of CO2 and N2O lasers themselves are not included. They are very numerous, and are already catalogued in a number of references (see Chapter 5). TEA-laser pulsed lines, or any others with pulse lengths less than 1 /iS, are not included. Stark-shifted and multiple photon lines are excluded, as are molecular beam masers and lasers relying on chemical reactions for their excitation. 

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