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This is also the case with methods that yield information on localized corrosion. The overall corrosion rate may be small when locahzed attack occurs, but failure due to perforation or loss of function may be the consequence of locahzed attack. 

Multiinformational Prohes Corrosion probes can provide more information than just corrosion rate. The next three types of probes yield information about the type of corrosion, the kinetics of the corrosion reaction, as well as the local corrosion rate. 

Structure-Activity Relationships. Biological evaluation of peniciUias yields information such as in vitro and in vivo antibacterial activities. 

Physical Methods of Examination. Physical methods used to examine coals can be divided into two classes which, in the one case, yield information of a stmctural nature such as the size of the aromatic nuclei, ie, methods such as x-ray diffraction, molar refraction, and calorific value as a function of composition and in the other case indicate the fraction of carbon present in aromatic form, ie, methods such as ir and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies, and density as a function of composition. Some methods used and types of information obtained from them are (41)  

The ultracentrifuge has been used extensively, especially for the study of biopolymers, and can be used in several different experimental modes to yield information about polymeric solutes. Of the possible procedures, we shall consider only sedimentation velocity and sedimentation equilibrium. We shall discuss these in turn, beginning with an examination of the forces which operate on a particle setting under stationary-state conditions. 

Changes in the atomic correlations are enabled by atomic jumps between neighbouring lattice sites. In metals and their substitutional solutions point defects are responsible for these diffusion processes. Ordering kinetics can therefore yield information about properties of the point defects which are involved in the ordering process. 

Mosshauer effect The resonance fluorescence by y-radiation of an atomic nucleus, returning from an excited state to the ground state. The resonance energy is characteristic of the chemical environment of the nucleus and Mossbauer spectroscopy may be used to yield information about this chemical environment. Used particularly in the study of Fe. Sn and Sb compounds. 

In other instances, it is sufficient for the plant engineer to have a less accurate measurement of what is going on. As well as being technically suitable for the purpose, the instrument chosen will reflect these considerations. In the case of process control, the instrumentation must be reliable and it must yield information, often over very long periods of time, which represents the state of the plant or the process and its history. It is on the basis of this information that the plant engineer will make decisions, many of which will affect the economic viability of the process and some of which will have a direct impact on the safe operation of the plant. 

This chapter is the narrowest in scope of any chapter in this book. In it we discuss a single experimental procedure and its interpretation. It is appropriate to examine light scattering in considerable detail, since the theory underlying this method is relatively unfamiliar to students and the interpretation yields information concerning a variety of polymer parameters. 

The study of biochemical natural products has also been aided through the application of two-dimensional GC. In many studies, it has been observed that volatile organic compounds from plants (for example, in fruits) show species-specific distributions in chiral abundances. Observations have shown that related species produce similar compounds, but at differing ratios, and the study of such distributions yields information on speciation and plant genetics. In particular, the determination of hydroxyl fatty acid adducts produced from bacterial processes has been a successful application. In the reported applications, enantiomeric determination of polyhydroxyl alkanoic acids extracted from intracellular regions has been enabled (45). 

Another technique for organics measurement that overcomes the long period required for the BOD test is the use of continuous respirometry. Here the waste (full-strength rather than diluted as in the standard BOD test) is contacted with biomass in an apparatus that continuously measures the dissolved oxygen consumption. This test determines the ultimate BOD in a few hours if a high level of biomass is used. The test can also yield information on toxicity, the need to 

In maldug electrochemical impedance measurements, one vec tor is examined, using the others as the frame of reference. The voltage vector is divided by the current vec tor, as in Ohm s law. Electrochemical impedance measures the impedance of an electrochemical system and then mathematically models the response using simple circuit elements such as resistors, capacitors, and inductors. In some cases, the circuit elements are used to yield information about the kinetics of the corrosion process. 

RAIRS spectra contain absorption band structures related to electronic transitions and vibrations of the bulk, the surface, or adsorbed molecules. In reflectance spectroscopy the ahsorhance is usually determined hy calculating -log(Rs/Ro), where Rs represents the reflectance from the adsorhate-covered substrate and Rq is the reflectance from the bare substrate. For thin films with strong dipole oscillators, the Berre-man effect, which can lead to an additional feature in the reflectance spectrum, must also be considered (Sect. 4.9 Ellipsometry). The frequencies, intensities, full widths at half maximum, and band line-shapes in the absorption spectrum yield information about adsorption states, chemical environment, ordering effects, and vibrational coupling. 

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