Whaling

Its shape looks like a whale, as it is presented in figure 3. That s why it is called a whale probe". 

The main component of the holder is the specially bended tube which allows the introduction of the whale probe" through a 10 mm hole in the housing ring of the engine. Then the whale probe" is easily positioned to the foot of one of the blades. After the inspection of the first blade root, the engine is rotated several degrees to allow the inspection of the next blade. 

The extreme influence water can exert on the Diels-Alder reaction was rediscovered by Breslow in 1980, much by coincidence . Whale studying the effect of p-cyclodextrin on the rate of a Diels-Alder reaction in water, accidentally, the addition of the cyclodextrin was omitted, but still rate constants were observed that were one to two orders of magnitude larger than those obtained in organic solvents. The investigations that followed this remarkable observation showed that the acceleration of Diels-Alder reactions by water is a general phenomenon. Table 1.2 contains a selection from the multitude of Diels-Alder reactions in aqueous media that have been studied Note that the rate enhancements induced by water can amount up to a factor 12,800 compared to organic solvents (entry 1 in Table 1.2). 

A certain carboxylic acid (C14H26O2) which can be isolated from whale blubber or sardine oil yields nonanal and 0=CH(CH2)3C02H on ozonolysis What is the structure of this acid" ... 

Spermaceti is a wax obtained from the sperm whale It contains among other materials an ester known as cetyl palmitate which is used as an emollient in a number of soaps and cosmetics The systematic name for cetyl palmi tate IS hexadecyl hexadecanoate Write a structural formula for this substance... 

Wetting energies Wet-web strength Whale Oil Whatman 3 MM Whatman No. 1 Wheat... 

Fats and oils are one of the oldest classes of chemical compounds used by humans. Animal fats were prized for edibiUty, candles, lamp oils, and conversion to soap. Fats and oils are composed primarily of triglycerides (1), esters of glycerol and fatty acids. However, some oils such as sperm whale (1), jojoba (2), and orange roughy (3) are largely composed of wax esters (2). Waxes (qv) are esters of fatty acids with long-chain aUphatic alcohols, sterols, tocopherols, or similar materials. 

With the beginning of the industrial revolution around 1800, oil became increasingly important for lubrication and better illumination. Expensive vegetable oils were replaced by sperm whale oil [8002-24-2], which soon became scarce and its price skyrocketed. In 1850 lubrication oil was extracted from coal and oil shale (qv) in England, and ultimately about 130 plants in Great Britain and 64 plants in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky employed this process. 

Spermaceti. Spermaceti [8002-23-1] is derived from the head oil of the sperm whale. Owing to the present status of the sperm whale as an endangered species, however, the material is no longer an item of commerce and has been replaced by other natural and synthetic waxes. 

Jojoba is a desert crop that gives a small bean containing about 50% of a wax, a fatty acid ester with a fatty alcohol. The only other large source of such a wax is sperm whale oil, traditionally used in fine lubricants (see Lubrication and lubricants). Because the sperm whale is an endangered species, relatively Httle sperm whale oil is available and there is a large market for a substitute. Jojoba oil has been found to be usable for most of these appHcations. The jojoba oil is obtained by simply pressing the nut followed by conventional refining. Some jojoba oil is used in cosmetics (qv). 

Myoglobin (from sperm whale muscle). [9047-17-0] M, -17,000. Purified by CM-cellulose chromatography and Sephadex G-50 followed by chromatography on Amberlite IRC-50 Type III or BioRex 70 (<400mesh). The crystalline product as a paste in saturated (NH4)2S04 at pH 6.5-7.0 may be stored at 4° for at least 4 years unchanged, but must not be kept in a freezer. [Anres and Atassi Biochemistry 12 942 1980, Edmundson Biochem Prep 12 41 1968.]... 

Menhaden oil Neatsfoot oil Oleic acid Oleo oil Olive oil Palm oil Peanut oil Perilla oil Pine oil Rape seed oil Rosin oil Soya bean oil Sperm oil Tallow Tallow oil Tung oil Turpentine Whale oil... 

Cod liver oil Linseed oil Menhaden oil Perilla oil Corn oil Cottonseed oil Olive oil Pine oil Red oil Soya bean oil Tung oil Whale oil Castor oil Lard oil... 

Moore, D.R., Hooley, C.J. and Whale, M. Ductility factors for thermoplastics. Plastics and Rubber Proc. and Appl. 1(1981) p 121-127. 

Spermaceti is a wax obtained from the sperm whale. It contains. 

Mb Sperm whale myoglobin, an oxygen-binding protein 153 amino acid residues. Note that Mb lacks cysteine. 

Both attractive forces and repulsive forces are included in van der Waals interactions. The attractive forces are due primarily to instantaneous dipole-induced dipole interactions that arise because of fluctuations in the electron charge distributions of adjacent nonbonded atoms. Individual van der Waals interactions are weak ones (with stabilization energies of 4.0 to 1.2 kj/mol), but many such interactions occur in a typical protein, and, by sheer force of numbers, they can represent a significant contribution to the stability of a protein. Peter Privalov and George Makhatadze have shown that, for pancreatic ribonuclease A, hen egg white lysozyme, horse heart cytochrome c, and sperm whale myoglobin, van der Waals interactions between tightly packed groups in the interior of the protein are a major contribution to protein stability. 

Moby Dick and Spermaceti A Valuable Wax from Whale Oil... 

When oil from the head of the sperm whale is cooled, spermaceti, a translucent wax with a white, pearly luster, crystallizes from the mixture. Spermaceti, which makes up 11% of whale oil, is composed mainly of the wax cetyl pabnitate ... 

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