Determination of soluble phosphate,and total phosphorus in sea-water and of total phosphorus in marine muds

Summary The use ofp-methylaminophenol sulphate (metol) at 100 for the reduction of phosphomolybdic acid in the determination of phosphate in sea-water has a number of advantages over stannous chloride. The molybdenum blue colour once formed, is stable for several hours, and the calibration curve is not dependent upon the batches of reagent used; Beer's law is obeyed up to concentrations of at least 1 mg PO₄-P/l. The salt error is very small and the method has approximately 30% greater sensitivity in sea-water than has the stannous chloride method. Arsenic does not interfere at concentrations five times greater than its sea-water concentration. Iron and copper in moderate amounts do not interfere.Evaporation to dryness with a mixture of concentrated nitric and perchloric acids, followed by colorimetric determination of inorganic phosphate, is employed for the determination of total phosphorus in sea-water and marine muds. The method shows a coefficient of variation of ca. 2% with sea-water containing 60g P/l.

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Zusammenfassung Die Anwendung von p-Methylaminophenolsulfat (Metol) bei 100 für die Reduktion von PhosphomolybdÄnsÄure bei der Bestimmung der Phosphate in Meerwasser hat gegenüber Zinn(II)chlorid eine Reihe von Vorteilen. Das einmal gebildete MolybdÄnblau ist für einige Stunden stabil und die Eichkurve nicht von der angewendeten Menge Reagens abhÄngig; das Beersche Gesetz ist für Konzentrationen bis zu 1 mg Phosphat-Phosphor/l gültig. Der Salzfehler ist sehr klein und die Methode für Meerwasser etwa um 30% empfindlicher als die Zinn(II)chloridmethode. Arsen stört bei Konzentrationen, die fünfmal größer sind als in Meerwasser, nicht. Eisen und Kupfer in mÄßigen Mengen stören gleichfalls nicht.Für die Bestimmung des Gesamtphosphors in Meerwasser und Seeschlamm wird mit einer Mischung von konz. SalpetersÄure und PerchlorsÄure zur Trockne verdampft und das anorganische Phosphat kolorimetrisch gemessen. Die Methode zeigt eine Schwankungsbreite von etwa 2% für Meerwasser mit 60g P/l.

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Résumé L'emploi du sulfate de p-méthylaminophenol (métol) à 100 pour la réduction de l'acide phosphomolybdique lors du dosage des phosphates contenus dans l'eau de mer présente de multiples avantages sur celui du chlorure stanneux. Après sa formation, le bleu de molybdène reste stable pendant plusieurs heures et la courbe d'étalonnage ne varie pas avec le lot de réactif employé; la loi deBeer est applicable jusqu'à des concentrations au moins égales à 1 mg de phosphore phosphorique par litre. L'erreur de sel est très faible et la sensibilité de la méthode appliquée à l'eau de mer est environ 30% plus élevée que la méthode au chlorure stanneux. L'arsenic ne gÊne pas mÊme pour des concentrations cinq fois supérieures à celle qu'il atteint dans l'eau de mer. Des teneurs modérées de fer et de cuivre n'apportent pas de perturbation. On évapore à siecité en présence d'un mélange d'acides nitrique et perchlorique concentrés puis on effectue une détermination colorimétrique des phosphates minéraux pour doser le phosphore total de l'eau de mer et des boues marines. La méthode est sujette à des variations d'environ 2% pour leau de mer contenant 60 g de phosphore par litre.

     

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.     

Filling Length in Finitely Presentable Groups

We study the filling length function for a finite presentation of a group , and interpret this function as an optimal bound on the length of the boundary loop as a van Kampen diagram is collapsed to the basepoint using a combinatorial notion of a null-homotopy. We prove that filling length is well behaved under change of presentation of . We look at 'AD-pairs' (f,g) for a finite presentation : that is, an isoperimetric function f and an isodiametric function g that can be realised simultaneously. We prove that the filling length admits a bound of the form [g+1][log (f+1)+1] whenever (f,g) is an AD-pair for . Further we show that (up to multiplicative constants) if is an isoperimetric function ( ) for a finite presentation then ( ) is an AD-pair. Also we prove that for all finite presentations filling length is bounded by an exponential of an isodiametric function.Partially supported by NSF grant DMS-9800158Supported by EPSRC Award No. 98001683 and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.     

Free convection from a horizontal line source of heat

Summary In this paper a study is made of finite Grashof number effects upon the flow, in an unbounded domain, in the buoyant plume which forms over a horizontal line source of heat. The consequences of introducing a plane boundary into the domain are also assessed for two particular configurations.

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Zusammenfassung In dieser Arbeit wird der Effekt der endlichen Grashof-Zahl auf die Strömung untersucht, in einem unbegrenzten Medium mit natürlicher Konvektion, die durch eine horizontale linienförmige Quelle erzeugt wird. Die Folgen einer ebenen Begrenzungsfläche werden für zwei besondere Konfigurationen untersucht.

     

A micro co-precipitation technique for use in X-ray fluorescence analysis

An apparatus and a procedure are described for the preconcentration of nanogram amounts of trace elements. Co-precipitation and pressure filtration confine the precipitate to a 1.27 mm diameter spot on a filter membrane. Trace elements in the 10-100 ng range are collected reproducibly and detected with high sensitivity by X-ray fluorescence, by use of a milliprobe instrument. Advantages of the technique for quantitative applications are discussed.     

p-sd Shell gap reduction in neutron-rich systems and cross-shell excitations in 20 O

Excited states in 20O were populated in the reaction 10Be(14C,alpha) at Florida State University (FSU). Charged particles were detected with a particle telescope consisting of 4 annularly segmented Si surface barrier detectors and gamma radiation was detected with the FSU gamma detector array. Five new states were observed below 6 MeV from the alpha-gamma and alpha-gamma-gamma coincidence data. Shell model calculations suggest that most of the newly observed states are core-excited 1p-1h excitations across the N=Z=8 shell gap. Comparisons between experimental data and calculations for the neutron-rich O and F isotopes imply a steady reduction of the p-sd shell gap as neutrons are added.     

A definitive synthesis of D-myo-inositol 1,4,5,6-tetrakisphosphate and its enantiomer D-myo-inositol 3,4,5,6-tetrakisphosphate from a novel butane-2,3-diacetal-protected inositol

New and rapid syntheses of the enantiomeric intracellular signalling molecules d-myo-inositol 1,4,5,6-tetrakisphosphate (1 a) and D-myo-inositol 3,4,5,6-tetrakisphosphate (1 b) are described. The synthetic strategy employs the novel butane-2,3-diacetal-protected (BDA-protected) myo-inositol (+/-)-3 ab, directly accessible from myo-inositol on a large scale, and an optical resolution with diastereoisomeric (R)-(-)-acetylmandelate esters. The X-ray crystal structure of (+/-)-4, an unusual side product of acid-catalysed reaction of myo-inositol with butanedione is also presented, and the absolute configurations of 1 a and 1 b are definitively assigned by conversion of key precursors into (+)-bornesitol and L-iditol hexaacetate, respectively. Biological activity of synthetic 1 b was confirmed in comparison with the natural polyphosphate.