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In a gravimetric analysis a measurement of mass or change in mass provides quantitative information about the amount of analyte in a sample. The most common form of gravimetry uses a precipitation reaction to generate a product whose mass is proportional to the analyte. In many cases the precipitate includes the analyte however, an indirect analysis in which the analyte causes the precipitation of another compound also is possible. Precipitation gravimetric procedures must be carefully controlled to produce precipitates that are easily filterable, free from impurities, and of known stoichiometry. 

This example illustrates the qualitative nature of information that can be gleaned from macroscopic uptake studies. Consideration of adsorption isotherms alone cannot provide mechanistic information about sorption reactions because such isotherms can be fit equally well with a variety of surface complexation models assuming different reaction stoichiometries. More quantitative, molecular-scale information about such reactions is needed if we are to develop a fundamental understanding of molecular processes at environmental interfaces. Over the past 20 years in situ XAFS spectroscopy studies have provided quantitative information on the products of sorption reactions at metal oxide-aqueous solution interfaces (e.g., [39,40,129-138]. One... 

The investigations outlined above demonstrate the utility of electrochemical techniques in probing cluster reactions. The titrimetric bulk electrolysis procedure allows new cluster types to be prepared easily, with quantitative information on stoichiometry. The cyclic voltammetry approach permitted a systematic study of other ferredoxins to determine the factors that allow rapid reactions of this type to occur. It could be shown, for example, that the presence of Asp in place of Cys in the sequence was not sufficient to confer this striking ambivalence between cluster types. The 7Fe ferredoxin from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, which also has the... 

In a balanced equation, the number of moles of one substance is stoichiometri-cally equivalent to the number of moles of any other substance. The term stoi-chiometrically equivalent means that a definite amount of one substance is formed from, produces, or reacts with a definite amount of the other. These quantitative relationships are expressed as stoichiometricolly equivalent molar ratios that we use as conversion factors to calculate these amounts. Table 3.3 presents the quantitative information contained in the equation for the combustion of propane, a hydrocarbon fuel used in cooking and water heating ... 

These theoretical advances have led to the development of potentiometric methods for quantifying fundamental membrane processes. The stoichiometry of the ionophore-ion complexation in the membrane phase can be determined by studying the effects of ionic sites on potentiometric selectivity. Such a study also reveals whether an ionophore serves as a neutral or a charged ionophore (64). Formation constants of the complexes with the corresponding stoichiometry can be determined from the unbiased selectivity coefficients or more directly by the sandwich method. Quantitative information about the complexation processes in the membranes, which eventually limits practical performances of the electrodes, will be useful for future design of selective ionophores. 

Chemical composition analysis complementing the microstructural information obtained from EM is known as analytical EM (AEM). Important compositional variations or non-stoichiometry in a material which is seemingly phase pure or stoichiometric by the criterion of bulk diffraction techniques and compositions of surface layers can be revealed using AEM. For quantitative microanalysis a ratio method for thin crystals (Cliff and Lorimer 1975) is used, given by the equation ... 

Thus, the heat release rate is proportional to the measured temperature excess. The heat release rate and its dependence on conditions may be the fundamental information required for the interpretation of many combustion phenomena, but once again the heat transfer coefficient must be evaluated. Heat transfer coefficients for low-pressure gases in closed, stirred, spherical reaction vessels were measured by Gray and co-workers [40-42]. A simple quantitative relationship of the rate of reactant consumption to the temperature excess requires that the overall exothermicity does not vary with reaction conditions. As is implicit in Chapter 1 from the variations in reaction stoichiometry, and discussed further in Section 6.5, this is certainly not the case during alkane oxidation over the temperature range 500-900 K. 

The chemical reactor has a determinant role on both the material balance and the structure of the whole flowsheet. It is important to stress that the downstream levels in the Hierarchical Approach, as the separation system and heat integration, depend entirely on the composition of the reactor exit stream. However, a comprehensive kinetic model of the reaction network is hardly available at an early conceptual stage. To overcome this shortcoming, in a first attempt we may neglect the interaction between the reactor and the rest of the process, and use an analysis based on stoichiometry. A reliable quantitative relationship between the input and the output molar flow rates of components would be sufficient. This information is usually available from laboratory studies on chemistry. Kinetics requires much more effort, which may be justified only after proving that the process is feasible. Note that the detailed description of stoichiometry, taking into account the formation of sub-products and impurities is not a trivial task. The effort is necessary, because otherwise the separation system will be largely underestimated. 

AFM images provide structural information on proteins and their interactions with other proteins or other molecules such asDNA. From visual inspection of the data, conformational properties of proteins can often be directly derived, as shown for example in Fig. 5a [9]. Quantitative statistical analyses allow for the extraction of further information on protein states and interactions. From the measured volume of particles in the images, their molecular mass can be calculated [10]. This calculation is based on an empirically derived linear relationship obtained with calibratirm proteins with a range of known molecular weights. From the molecular mass of the protein molecules and complexes, information can be derived on protein oligomeric states, protein-protein interactions, and complex stoichiometries. Single molecule resolution coupled with the analysis of statistical numbers of molecules or molecular assemblies supplies... 

The above-cited example on Cd/hematite indicates that some groups perform titrations in the presence of solutes different from innocent electrolytes. Such titrations may yield important macroscopic information on the proton balance of the suspension in the presence of such a solute (Table 2). However, the exact proton stoichiometry of some surface complex can rarely be inferred, because this would require that only one complex exists and that the protonation states of the surface groups, which are not contributing to that particular surface complex, are not affected by the adsorption process. This can, at best, be assumed in a quaUtative interpretation but can be quantitatively handled with the mean field approximation and the corresponding assumptions inherent to the respective computer programs. In fitting some models to adsorption data, proton data will constitute an independent and very valuable dataset representative of the system however, they may be restricted to sufficiently high solute to sorbent ratios. 

This chapter is modeled after the MAB Report, updating and expanding the coverage to correspond to the state of the art in January 1973. A short description of various analytical techniques used to obtain composition information on materials is followed by a tabular summary of sensitivities and precisions of these techniques. The next section describes the application of these techniques to specific characterization problems such as stoichiometry, homogeneity, and oxidation state, as well as survey and quantitative methods of measuring impurities. Finally, examples are given from the literature of detailed studies on a number of high-purity materials to illustrate the present state of the art of characterization of practical samples. 

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