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The term macromixing refers to the overall mixing performance in a reactor. It is usually described by the residence time distribution (RTD). Originally introduced by Danckwerts (1958), this concept is based on a macroscopic lumped population balance. A fluid element is followed from the time at which it enters the reactor (Lagrangian viewpoint - observer moves with the fluid). The probability that the fluid element will leave the reactor after a residence time t is expressed as the RTD function. This function characterises the scale of mixedness in a reactor. 

A constant force is applied to an ideal elastomer, assumed to be a perfect network. At an initial temperature Tj the length of the sample is Ij. The temperature is raised to Tf and the final length is If. Which is larger Ij or If (remember F is a constant and Tf > Tj) Suppose a wheel were constructed with spokes of this same elastomer. From the viewpoint of an observer, the spokes are heated near the 3 o clock position-say, by exposure to sunlight-while other spokes are shaded. Assuming the torque produced can overcome any friction at the axle, would the observer see the wheel turn clockwise or counterclockwise How would this experiment contrast, in magnitude and direction, with an experiment using metal spokes ... 

The concentration [MB] constantly experiences tiny fluctuations, the duration of which can determine linewidths. It is also possible to adopt a traditional kinetic viewpoint and measure the time course of such spontaneous fluctuations directly by monitoring the time-varying concentration in an extremely small sample (6). Spontaneous fluctuations obey exactly the same kinetics of return to equiUbrium that describe relaxation of a macroscopic perturbation. Normally, fluctuations are so small they are ignored. The relative ampHtude of a fluctuation is inversely proportional to the square root of the number of AB entities being observed. Consequently, fluctuations are important when concentrations are small or, more usehiUy, when volumes are tiny. 

We have now considered three viewpoints from which thermal electrocyclic processes can be analyzed symmetry characteristics of the frontier orbitals, orbital correlation diagrams, and transition-state aromaticity. All arrive at the same conclusions about stereochemistiy of electrocyclic reactions. Reactions involving 4n + 2 electrons will be disrotatory and involve a Hiickel-type transition state, whereas those involving 4n electrons will be conrotatory and the orbital array will be of the Mobius type. These general principles serve to explain and correlate many specific experimental observations made both before and after the orbital symmetry mles were formulated. We will discuss a few representative examples in the following paragraphs. 

From the mechanical viewpoint, ferroelectrics exhibit unsteady, evolving waves at low stresses. Waves typical of well defined mechanical yielding are not observed. Such behavior is sensitive to the electrical boundary conditions, indicating that electromechanical coupling has a strong influence. Without representative mechanical behavior, it is not possible to quantitatively define the stress and volume compression states exciting a particular electrical response. 

Dravid et al. examined anisotropy in the electronic structures of CNTs from the viewpoint of momentum-transfer resolved EELS, in addition to the conventional TEM observation of CNTs, cross-seetional TEM and precise analysis by TED [5]. Comparison of the EEL spectra of CNTs with those of graphite shows lower jc peak than that of graphite in the low-loss region (plasmon loss), as shown in Fig. 7(a). It indicates a loss of valence electrons and a change in band gap due to the curved nature of the graphitic sheets. 

As this example illustrates, plots such as these can be useful for providing a qualitative understanding of the electron density and its relationship to reactivity, but you would be wise to use and interpret them with care. It is all too easy to unintentionally manipulate such illustrations to create the effect that one expects to observe. For example, any one slice or isosurface of the electron density can be used to argue for a given viewpoint. It is important to examine and visualize the entire volumetric data set before reaching conclusions based on it. ... 

In any particular situation, it is usually possible to give a variety of reasons why the observed quantity behaves in an erratic manner. The observed quantity may be critically dependent on certain parameters and the observed fluctuations attributed to slight variations of these parameters. The implication here is that the observed fluctuations appear erratic only because we have not taken the trouble to make a sufficiently precise analysis of the situation to disclose the pattern the observations are following. It is also possible, in some situations, to adopt the viewpoint that certain aspects of the phenomenon being studied are inherently unknowable and that the best physical laws we can devise to explain the phenomenon will have some form of randomness or unpredictability built into them. Such is the case, for example, with thermal noise voltages, which are believed to be governed by the probabilistic laws of quantum physics. 

The resultant states are necessarily II, for and one x are used for the bond, leaving on C atomic spectra should be valid. This is substantiated the observed excited states 3n and TI lie at 5.98 and 7.99 v. e., respectively. Another way of considering these three states is the following to go from C O to C O we lift an electron from the more deeply penetrating a0 orbit to x about 6-8 v. e. is needed for this, and the resultant state is either 3n or 1II. This viewpoint does not necessitate the discussion of products of dissociation. 

From the kinetic viewpoint the polymerizability of 61 is considered to be higher than that of e-caprolactam, which is polymerized usually at temperatures above 135 °C63,64 Thermodynamically, the polymerization of 61 appears to be more favored than that of a-pyrrolidone, for which no polymerization is observed in THF63-65 The higher polymerizability of 61 may be attributed not only to its highly strained bicyclic structure but also to the activation of the anion 66 by the... 

Since its discovery, SERS has received attention both from theoretical and experimental viewpoints (13). The large enhancement has been observed only for certain metals such as Ag, Cu and Au. The enhancement mechanism Is not quantitatively understood. Even so, very useful Information concerning adsorbed species of some electrode surfaces can be obtained In-sltu with this effect. With... 

Staudinger relentlessly championed the molecular, or primary valence, viewpoint in the years which followed. He supported his original contentions with the observation that hydrogenation of rubber, as well as its conversion to other derivatives, does not destroy its colloidal properties. In contrast to association colloids, high polymers (or macromolecules as he chose to call them ) exhibit colloidal properties in all solvents in which they dissolve. Polyoxymethylenes were ex-... 

This conclusion is in agreement with observations of the performance of stirred tank reactors. Nonetheless, it is the situation where the intersection occurs at an intermediate value of the conversion (or of Qg) that is of greatest interest from a stability analysis viewpoint. 

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