Capillary-bound water

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The sorption isotherm indicates that different forms of water may be present in foods. It is convenient to divide the water into three types Langmuir or monolayer water, capillary water, and loosely bound water. The bound water can be attracted strongly and held in a rigid and orderly state. In this form... 

Enthalpy Changes. The three forms of water found in wood have different energy or enthalpy levels, as shown in Figure 21. Water vapor in the cell cavities has the highest enthalpy. The enthalpy of liquid water in the cell cavities of green wood is considerably lower, essentially equal to that of free liquid water, if the effects of capillary forces and dissolved materials are neglected. The difference in enthalpy between liquid water and water vapor is the heat of vaporization (cal/g water)] of free water. The bound water in the cell wall of wood is at still lower energy level, Qi (cal/g water) below that of liquid water. The sum of the heat of sorption, Qi and Q, is equal to (cal/g water), which is the heat required to evaporate bound water from the cell wall. 

Wood is a hygroscopic, porous, anisotropic and non-homogeneous material. After log sawing, the lumber contains liquid water in fiber cavities (capillary water) and bound water inside the fiber wall (hygroscopic water). Porosity refers to volume fraction of void space. This void space can be actual space filled with air or space filled with both water and air. Capillary-porous materials are sometimes defined as those having pore diameter less than... 

The groundwater is formed above the impermeable layer (aquifer) so that it fills all the capillary as well as non-capillary spaces, thus forming a continuous water layer bounded by its upper level. 

Water in foods and biological materials can be grouped in three categories free water, entrapped water, and bound water. Free water is easily removed from foods or tissues by cutting, pressing, or centrifugation. Entrapped water is immobilized within the lattices of large molecules, capillaries. 

Freeze-drying is a thermal separation process during which the frozen product is dried carefully under vacuum. At the beginning, the product is frozen at atmospheric pressure. After this, in the first phase of drying (primary drying), the water in the product is sublimated. In the second phase (secondary drying), the water still bound in the capillaries is removed through desorption. 

A parchment bag, 100 mm. long and 16 mm. wide is connected with the manometer by means of the capillary tube, c. A funnel tube, t, is held in place by the arm of the ring stand, p. The capillary under the two-way stop cock, z, has a small bulb of about 1 cc. capacity. The bag is softened with water, securely bound on the glass tube, g, and covered with a thick layer of picene by melting it over a burner. The manometer is filled by suction at z. The bag is filled with hemoglobin through the funnel and the liquid is allowed to flow out at z. 

Water in soil can be classified as gravitational water, capillary water, swelling water, and hygroscopie water (see Fig. 2). The water available to plants corresponds to the suction power of a water column 30-15,000 cm (equivalent to 0.003-1.5 MPa — pF 1.5. 2), the capillary of 2-50 pm, and field water capacity, which is the water capacity (weight percent of water per dry soil) at the permanent wilting point. The water in the capillary smaller than these values is adsorbed water or bound water, and water larger than these values is gravitational water. In both cases, these are the types of water not available to the plants. 

Discussion. Capillary condensed water in pores is in a state of tension. Due to this, the free energy of the water G is reduced in relation to the free energy of water at the standard pressure of 1 atmosphere. This change of pressure results in a reduction of the equilibrium vapour pressure over capillary-bound water. In practice this phenomenon is seen by the fact that the water vapour of the air is able to condense and be bound in narrow pores although the relative humidity RH < 100 %. As seen from the calculations, the vapour pressure reduction is only significant at pore radii r of the order of magnitude 100 mm and below. 

Water content within solids in the two forms, unbound or free water and bound water. Unbound water is in equilibrium with water in phase, i.e., unbound water has the same vapor pressure as bulk water. Unbound water is mainly held in voids of solid. On the other hand, bound water can exist in several conditions (1) water in fine capillaries that exerts an abnormally low vapor pressure because of the highly... 

Capillary-bound water is also excluded from pore volume... 

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Pendular region (above transition zone) The wetting fluid (water) is in pendular rings at the grain-grain contacts and in the small pores. This part of the water is called capillary bound or irreducible water. 

FIGURES./ NMR data processing—principle. Measured data are in a time domain. The inversion process results in a partitioning of the individual relaxation contributions (bulk volumes) with the three regions clay-bound water (CBW), capillary-bound or immovable water (BVl), and free movable water (BVW). Regions are separated by cut-offs. 

In green wood, the cell walls are saturated, whereas some cell cavities are completely filled and others may be completely empty. Moisture ia the cell walls is called bound, hygroscopic, or adsorbed water. Moisture ia the cell cavities is called free or capillary water. The distiaction is made because, under ordinary conditions, the removal of the free water has Htde or no effect on many wood properties. On the other hand, the removal of the cell wall water has a pronounced effect. 

Bound moisture. This is water retained so that it exerts a vapour pressure less than that of free water at the same temperature. Such water may be retained in small capillaries, adsorbed on surfaces, or as a solution in cell walls. 

Since approximately 130 mL of plasma water is filtered across the porous glomerular capillary membranes each minute (190 L/day), the kidney is admirably suited for its role in drug excretion. As the ultrafiltrate is formed, any drug that is free in the plasma water, that is, not bound to plasma proteins or the formed elements in the blood (e.g., red blood cells), will be filtered as a result of the driving force provided by cardiac pumping. 

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