IR- und Raman-Spektren einiger Kaliumpentafluorometallate-monohydrate

The IR- and Raman Spectra of several compounds of the stoichiometryM ₂ ^I M ^IIIF₅H₂O and their deuterated analogs have been interpreted on the basis of their crystal structures. The compounds studied were divided into two classes regarding the bonding of water molecules. The main spectroscopic difference between the two classes was found in the region of H₂O vibrations in good agreement with theoretical predictions. The metal—fluorine and metal—oxygene vibrations gave no direct information concerning the two types of water.     

Heats of Mixing of Mixed Solvent Solutions of Alkali Metal Salts of Substituted Benzenesulfonic Acids

The enthalpy change on mixing solutions of methyl-substituted benzenesulfonic acids and their salts, with salts having a common cation or anion, at constant ionic strength in mixtures of 1,4-dioxane with water, were measured at 25°C. The heat effects of mixing solutions having a common anion increase almost linearly with the reciprocal value of the dielectric constant of the solvent. The heat effects of mixing solutions having a common cation, which are all negative in water-rich solutions, become endothermic after a certain value of the dielectric constant is passed. The results are discussed in terms of the solute-solvent structural properties. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Chronoamperometric stripping analysis following biocatalytic preconcentration

Electrodes containing glucose oxidase or xanthine oxidase adsorbed on modified glassy carbon electrodes or on conductive complexes, accumulate charge in the presence of substrates, the discharge of which gives the chronoamperometric stripping current. This current is 15 times higher than the stationary current after preconcentration for 8 min. A ten-fold increase in sensitivity of the determination of glucose or hypoxanthine is observed. The stripping current of electrodes based on cytochrome b₂ adsorbed on a graphite electrode is 25 times higher than the stationary current. The electrode is useful for lactate determinations for more than 7 days.     

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Selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry analyses of stable isotopes in water: Isotopic composition of H3O+ and H3O+(H2O)3 ions in exchange reactions with water vapor

A new method has been developed for the determination of the isotope abundance ratios of deuterium, D, and oxygen-18, 18O, in water vapor (and water) using selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS). H3O+ ions are injected into the helium carrier gas where they associate with the H2O and HDO molecules in a sample of water introduced into the carrier gas. The D and 18O contents of the product cluster ions H8DO4+ and H9(18)OO3+ at m/e = 74 and 75, respectively, are determined by reference to the majority cluster ion H9O4+ at m/e = 73. Allowance is made for the contribution of the H8(17)OO3+ ions to the m/z = 74 ions. Absolute isotopic ratios are measured within seconds without the need for precalibration of the SIFT-MS instrument, currently to an accuracy of better than 2%.     

Influence of γ-radiation on the properties of Langmuir-Blodgett films of poly (3-hexadecylthiophene) in interaction with selected environment-polluting gases

The influence of -radiation on the electric properties of Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films of partially iodine-doped poly-(3-hexadecylthiophene) and stearic acid in interaction with selected environment-polluting gases has been studied. CO₂, CO and NO₂ increase the LB films conductivity and NO has a tendency to decrease the electric conductivity. The influence of -radiation was expressive onyl in the case of CO₂, whereas NO₂ brought about degradation of the conductive polymer.     

Optimal orthogonalization processes

Two optimal orthogonalization processes are devised toorthogonalize,possibly approximately,the columns of a very large and possiblysparse matrix A∈C^n×k.Algorithmically the aim is,at each step,to optimallydecrease nonorthogonality of all the columns of A.One process relies on using translated small rank corrections.Another is a polynomial orthogonalization process forperforming the L?wdin orthogonalization.The steps rely on using iterative methods combined,preferably,with preconditioning which can have a dramatic effect on how fast thenonorthogonality decreases.The speed of orthogonalization depends on howbunched the singular values of A are,modulo the number of steps taken.These methods put the steps of the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalizationprocess into perspective regardingtheir(lack of)optimality.The constructions are entirely operatortheoretic and can be extended to infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces.     

A conglomerate of exponential supercategories of the category of finitely generated topological spaces

Summary For every ordinaln > 1 we define a categoryT _n of topological spaces in ech's sense which is isomorphic to a category ofn-ary monorelational systems. We show that every categoryT _n is an exponential supercategory of the categoryB of finitely generated topological spaces, which means that well-behaved function spacesG ^H can be defined inT _n wheneverG B.     

Adsorption on stepped substrates

An analysis is given of the behavior of an interface above a stepped substrate in the presence of an external pinning potential for the lattice solid-on-solid (SOS) interface model in 2D. Step-free energy including step-step interaction free energy is calculated, for large step separation. It is found it vanishes at temperatures lower thanT _w (wetting transition temperature), which is different from the case having only one step on a substrate where, as it is well known, step-free energy vanishes at the wetting transition.