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The chemistry of melanins reveals that it is difficult to study these pigment polymers using conventional chemical and physical methods. On the other hand, by using known precursors biosynthetic studies under biologically relevant conditions can be used successfully to understand the chemistry of melanin, i.e. the identification of the intermediates, their reactivities, the formation of melanin, and its properties. 

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SWS are useful to obtain direct indications of hydrocarbons (under UV light) and to differentiate between oil and gas. The technique is applied extensively to sample microfossils and pollen for stratigraphic analysis (age dating, correlation, depositional environment). Qualitative inspection of porosity is possible, but very often the sampling process results in a severe crushing of the sample thus obscuring the true porosity and permeability. 

MP-suspension by automated ASTM-bulb Magnetization current by Hall-Sensor Magnetization time UV-Light intensity All Liquids (fluorescence, contamination) Process times and temperatures Function of spraying nozzles, Level of tanks Flow rates (e.g. washing, water recycling) UV-Light intensity... 

Photodegradation as well as fluorescence quenching has been observed in chlorophyll monolayers [302,316]. Whitten [317] observed a substantial decrease in the area of mixed films of tripalmitin and a ci5-thioindigo dye as isomerization to the trti 5-thioindigo dye occurred on irradiation with UV light. 

PES Photoelectron spectroscopy Same as XPS with UV light Similar to XPS... 

Excited O2 molecules are fomied by UV light absorption. Monomolecular reactions (e.g., c = [Oi]) show a first-order rate law ... 

The temi action spectroscopy refers to how a particular action , or process, depends on photon energy. For example, the photodissociation of 0 with UV light leads to energetic 0+0 fragments the kinetic energy released has been... 

LIF is also used witii liquid and solid samples. For example, LIF is used to detect lJO ions in minerals the uranyl ion is responsible for the bright green fluorescence given off by minerals such as autunite and opal upon exposure to UV light [23],... 

PES of neutral molecules to give positive ions is a much older field [ ]. The infomiation is valuable to chemists because it tells one about unoccupied orbitals m the neutral that may become occupied in chemical reactions. Since UV light is needed to ionize neutrals, UV lamps and syncln-otron radiation have been used as well as UV laser light. With suitable electron-energy resolution, vibrational states of the positive ions can be... 

In the dense interstellar medium characteristic of sites of star fonuation, for example, scattering of visible/UV light by sub-micron-sized dust grains makes molecular clouds optically opaque and lowers their internal temperature to only a few tens of Kelvin. The thenual radiation from such objects therefore peaks in the FIR and only becomes optically thin at even longer wavelengths. Rotational motions of small molecules and rovibrational transitions of larger species and clusters thus provide, in many cases, the only or the most powerfiil probes of the dense, cold gas and dust of the interstellar medium. 

UPS UV photoelectron spectroscopy Absorption of UV light by an atom, after which a valence electron Is ejected. Chemical bonding, work function... 

Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) [2, 3 and 4, 6] differs from XPS in that UV light (He I, 21.2 eV He II, 40.8 eV) is used instead of x-rays. At these low excitmg energies, photoemission is limited to valence electrons. 

These are systems in which multilayer stmctures are fonned from molecules containing one or more double bonds and in which polymerization is subsequently initiated by appropriate means such as electron beam or UV light exposure. 

Polymerization of compounds perfonned with UV light was first reported in the 1970s [86] and was followed by further studies [87, 88 and 89]. Another study was concerned with the deposition and polymerization of multilayers of alcohols and acids incoiyDorating the diene group, -CH=CH-CH=CH-, at the hydrophilic end of the molecule [90]. 

Other investigations dealt with straight-chain molecules (oi-tricosenoic acid) in which the penultimate and final carbon atoms at the hydrophobic end are connected by a double bond [91, 92]. The material does not polymerize as rapidly as those described before when irradiated by UV light, however, but it is readily polymerized when bombarded with an electron beam. It was thus thought to be an optimal material for the fabrication of electron beam resists. 

Other early work, which continues to this day, involved vibronic relaxation [6] of large colored molecules such as chrysene [19], pyrene [20] and perylene [21], due to the relative ease of using visible or near-UV light to pump and probe these systems (see example C3.5.6.5 below). 

Treatment of dibenzylic sulfides with triethylphosphite and UV-light also led to cyclophanes in high yield (H.A. Staab, 1979). 

Reaction that can be carried out by the oxidative coupling of radicals may also be initiated by irradiation with UV light. This procedure is especially useful if the educt contains oleflnic double bonds since they are vulnerable to the oxidants used in the usual phenol coupling reactions. Photochemically excited benzene derivatives may even attack ester carbon atoms which is generally not observed with phenol radicals (I. Ninoraiya, 1973 N.C. Yang, 1966). 

As a consequence of the rigid face-to-face orientation, there are strong electronic interactions between the benzene rings in the dibenzo-anellated isodrin derivative. Irradiation with 254-nm UV light gave rise to a 7 3 equilibrium mixture of the educt with the [6 -I- 6]cycloaddition isomer. At an irradiation wavelength of 300 nm the cycloaddition wa completely reversed. 

The speciation scheme of Batley and Florence requires eight measurements on four samples. After removing insoluble particulates by filtration, the solution is analyzed for the concentration of anodic stripping voltammetry (ASV) labile metal and the total concentration of metal. A portion of the filtered solution is passed through an ion-exchange column, and the concentrations of ASV metal and total metal are determined. A second portion of the filtered solution is irradiated with UV light, and the concentrations of ASV metal... 

Uv-curable polymers Uv devices Uvilon Uvithane 893 Uv light stabilizers... 

Ultraviolet (uv) light has also been used to stetili2e the water in aquaculture systems. The effectiveness of uv decreases with the thickness of the water column being treated, so the water is usually flowed past uv lights as a thin film (alternatively, the water may flow through a tube a few cm in diameter that is surrounded by uv lights). Uv systems require more routine maintenance than o2one systems. Uv bulbs lose their power with time and need... 

Dichromated Resists. The first compositions widely used as photoresists combine a photosensitive dichromate salt (usually ammonium dichromate) with a water-soluble polymer of biologic origin such as gelatin, egg albumin (proteins), or gum arabic (a starch). Later, synthetic polymers such as poly(vinyl alcohol) also were used (11,12). Irradiation with uv light (X in the range of 360—380 nm using, for example, a carbon arc lamp) leads to photoinitiated oxidation of the polymer and reduction of dichromate to Ct(III). The photoinduced chemistry renders exposed areas insoluble in aqueous developing solutions. The photochemical mechanism of dichromate sensitization of PVA (summarized in Fig. 3) has been studied in detail (13). 

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