The determination of molecular diffusion coefficients by the barometric method

The binary molecular diffusion coefficients D _AB of a vaporizing liquid in gases under atmospheric conditions were measured by the new simple barometric method. A change in the pressure of a vapor-gas mixture in a closed cell was determined as a function of time. Under experimental conditions, one can also find partial saturated vapor pressures of substances. The deviations of the coefficients D _AB obtained by the new procedure from the literature values were within the spread of the experimental data. The D _AB coefficients (absent in the literature) were measured for mixtures of acetone, ethyl acetate, carbon tetrachloride, difluoroethanol, and cis and trans isomers of perfluorodecalin with argon. The saturated vapor pressures were determined for difluoroethanol and cis-and trans-perfluorodecalins under argon.     

The titrimetric determination of carbon dioxide with special reference to the determination of carbon in organic compounds

The titrimetric barium carbonate method for the determination of. carbon in organic compounds has been examined and the various sources of error are discussed. The carbon dioxide from the combustion of the sample is absorbed in excess baryta containing 20% (w/v) barium chloride and the excess is back-titrated with hydrochloric acid in the presence of o-cresolphthalein indicator.The value of this method in conjunction with the previously described determination of water with succinyl chloride, for the simultaneous determination of carbon and hydrogen is assessed     

The colorimetric determination of silicate with special reference to sea and natural waters

The optimum conditions for the determination of silicate in natural waters by a molybdenum blue method have been investigated p-Methylaminophenol sulphate has a number of advantages over other reducing agents for the reduction of silicomolybdic acid to molybdenum blue. Beer's law is obeyed up to concentrations of at least 3 mg/l.The interference of several inorganic ions has been investigated; none of those encountered in natural waters is likely to cause error. The method has been applied to the analysis of sea-water and the “salt error” correction evaluated.     

The use of thermal analysis in medical science with special reference to nephroliths

The applications of thermal methods in medical science have been summarized, with special regard to kidney stones. Complex thermal analysis can be used successfully for examination of human and animal urinary calculi, bones, odontoliths biological tissues (proteins, skin, callus, nail) etc.

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Zusammenfassung Es wurden die Anwendungen der Thermoanalyse auf medizinischem Gebiet unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Nierensteinen zusammenfassend behandelt. Komplexe thermoanalytische Methoden eignen sich zur Prüfung von menschlichen und tierischen Harnsteinen, Knochen, Zahnstein, biologischem Gewebe (Proteine, Haut, Nägel, usw.)

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Résumé Revue des applications des méthodes thermoanalytiques dans le domaine médical avec mention particulière pour les calculs rénaux. L'emploi des méthodes d'analyse thermique mixtes donnent de bons résultats pour l'examen des calculs rénaux animaux et humains, du tartre dentaire et des tissus biologiques (protéines, peau, ongles), etc.

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The automatic determination of silicate-silicon in natural waters with special reference to sea water

An automatic method using a Technicon AutoAnalyzer is described for the determination of silicate in natural waters in the range 0–4 mg Si/l. It is based on the conversion of silicate to β-silicomolybdic acid which is reduced by means of a metolsulphite reagent to molybdenum blue. Interference of phosphate is prevented by oxalic acid. The relationship between silicate concentration and optical density is linear in both fresh waters and sea water. With sea water the salt error of the method is ca. 5% at a salinity of 35‰ A coefficient of variation of 0.8% was found at a silicate concentration of 1 mg Si/l with both fresh and sea waters.     

The determination of protein, oligonucleotide and peptide molecular weights by ion-spray mass spectrometry

The mass spectra of several compounds with molecular weights in the 2500-20,000 Da range were obtained with a quadrupole mass spectrometer equipped with an atmospheric pressure ion source. Average molecular weight determinations of mellitin (2846.4 Da), a synthetic oligonucleotide (4262.8 Da), myoglobin (16,950.4 Da) and on the subunits of beta-lactoglobulin (18,277.1 Da) requiring as little as 1 pmol of material were achieved with accuracies and precisions of +/- 1 Da. An ion-spray interface was used to produce ions via the ion evaporation process, producing mass spectra containing a series of multiply-charged molecular species. A simple method for calculating the molecular weight of unknown compounds from the spectra containing multiply-charged ions is described.     

The regional distribution of copper and other trace elements in the human brain with special reference to Wilson's disease

The regional distribution of copper and other trace elements was determined in the brain of a patient deceased in Wilson's disease against a control brain. The heterogeneous distribution of copper was checked by scanning electron microscope equipped with an X-ray microanalyzer.     

Spectrophotometric determination of the molecular weights of coumarins and furocoumarins

Summary A spectrophotometric method for the determination of the molecular weights of coumarins and furocoumarins with an accuracy of ±4.5% has been proposed.Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 381–383, 1966     

The analysis of aluminium alloys by atomic absorption spectroscopy with special reference to the determination of chromium and zirconium

The analysis of aluminium-base alloys for silver, copper, magnesium, zinc, chromium, and zirconium by atomic absorption spectroscopy is described. The use of hot flames (nitrous oxide-acetylene) allows improvements to earlier procedures for such analyses. Sensitivities are increased, interferences reduced, and the determination of more refractory elements, e.g. Cr and Zr, becomes possible. Hollow-cathode lamps with greatly increased resonance-line intensities are used for the determination of chromium and zirconium.     

The evaluation of the Arrhenius integral with special reference to small computers

This paper discusses the factors which influence the choice and implementation of computer methods to evaluate the Arrhenius integral, I_A = ∫^Tα₀ exp(?E/RT)dT. It also identifies the sources of computational error and inefficiency. It is shown that, amongst numerical integration techniques, the classical trapezoidal and Simpson rules have little to recommend them compared with the method of Gaussian quadrature. A technique for preserving the accuracy of the Gauss method at very high values of E/RT_α is also described and evaluated. Rational (Padé) approximation is found to compare favourably with Gaussian quadrature in efficiency and accuracy, and is simpler to use. The discussion also reveals that six decimal-digit arithmetic is adequate for all practical purposes.     

Direct flame-photometric determination of calcium in soil and plant extracts,water and serum with special reference to sodium,potassium and phosphate interference

An investigation of the possibilities for the direct determination of calcium with a single-cell filter flame photometer, without preliminary separation as oxalate, led to the following conclusions:Calibration curves for 100 p.p.m. of calcium are rectilinear.Sodium causes an appreciable positive error.The error due to potassium interference is relatively much smaller than that due to sodium. Up to a certain concentration it is positive and increases with the concentration, then the emission seems to be gradually depressed and the error finally becomes negative.Phosphates cause a very significant negative error, which tends to be asymptotic. The “radiation buffer” method of correction is not practical here because the max. error is too high (—92.5%).Except for extreme cases, calcium can be determined by direct spraying, without preliminary separation as oxalate: (a) in drinking and irrigation water, correction being necessary only for sodium interference, (b) in soil extracts, correcting only for phosphate effects, (c) in normal blood sera, without clinically significant corrections at 1+3 dilution.Owing to the large variations in the contents of Na, K and PO₄^-3 in plants, calcium cannot be determined in plant-ash extracts without preliminary separation as oxalate. This applies also to abnormal sera, although there the variations in Na and PO₄^-3 content are not so large.     

The spectrophotometric determination of nitrate in natural waters,with particular reference to sea-water

Nitrate can be reduced to nitrite in good yield by means of hydrazine in alkaline solution; the reaction is promoted by catalytic quantities of copper. The authors have established the optimum conditions for tlie reduction and applied the method to the determination of nitrate in fresh waters and in sea-waters. The nitrite formed is determined by Mellon and Rider's modification of the Griess-Ilosvay procedure. The reduction with hydrazine is carried out in the presence of 0.25 p.p.m. of copper at pH 9.6 in a solution buffered with sodium phenate. It is complete within 24 hours at room temperature. The method will detect ca. 0.3 μg NO₃$\text{N}\text{l}$ and gives a standard deviation of ca. 2% in the range 20-600 μg NO₃-$\text{N}\text{l}$. Up to 60 determinations can be made per 6 hour working period. The interference of nitrite has been investigated. Ammonium salts, urea, and amino acids do not interfere, at the concentrations at which they occur in sea-water.It is preferable to analyse samples immediately after collection, but if this is not possible, they should be filtered, sterilized with 2 p.p.m. of mercuric chloride and stored in glass containers.     

Fracture toughening of epoxy matrices with blends of resins of different molecular weights and other modifiers

The microstructure and fracture behavior of epoxy mixtures containing two monomers of different molecular weights were studied. The variation of the fracture toughness by the addition of other modifiers was also investigated. Several amounts of high‐molecular‐weight diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) oligomer were added to a nearly pure DGEBA monomer. The mixtures were cured with an aromatic amine, showing phase separation after curing. The curing behavior of the epoxy mixtures was investigated with thermal measurements. A significant enhancement of the fracture toughness was accompanied by slight increases in both the rigidity and strength of the mixtures that corresponded to the content of the high‐molecular‐weight epoxy resin. Dynamic mechanical and atomic force microscopy measurements indicated that the generated two‐phase morphology was a function of the content of the epoxy resin added. The influence of the addition of an oligomer or a thermoplastic on the morphologies and mechanical properties of both epoxy‐containing mixtures was also investigated. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 42: 3920–3933, 2004