Transfer of organic material

D.C. Blanchard and L.D. Syzdek, Importance of bubble scavenging in the water-to-air transfer of organic material and bacteria, J. Recherches. Atmos. 8 (1974) 529-540. 

Bubble Scavenging and the Water-to-Air Transfer of Organic Material in the Sea... 

The water-to-air transfer of organic material by bubbles occurs not only in the sea but also in bodies of fresh water. Baier (100), in a study of oil films produced on Lake Chautauqua, New York, by human activity, concluded that natural bubble mechanisms were largely responsible for cleaning the lake surface by ejecting the films into the atmosphere. If future work confirms this finding, bubbles may be a mechanism for converting water pollution to air pollution (101). 

Chemical separation of technetium in soils is not easy, but it is fairly well-known that under aerobic conditions pertechnetate Tc(YII) is readily transferred to plants while under anaerobic conditions insoluble TcCh (or its hydrate) is not transferred to them. Even under aerobic conditions, however, the transfer rate decreases with time [28], indicating that soluble pertechnetate changes to insoluble forms by the action of microorganisms which produce a local anaerobic condition around themselves [29,30]. Insoluble technetium species may be TcOz, sulfide or complexes of organic material such as humic acid. 

Lateral gene transfer the transfer of genetic material from one organism to another that is not its offspring. 

C. E. D. Chidsey, Science 251 919 (1991). Theory of electron transfer at gold covered by a thick layer of organic material. 

While the study of the conventional semiconducting materials has progressed rapidly, the study of organic materials has received much less attention until the past few years. In particular the electrical properties of polymers have been much neglected and little authoritative work exists in the literature. In view of current developments in theories of the electrical properties of organic molecular crystals, it seems profitable to take stock of the situation as far as charge transfer in polymers is concerned. 

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