Polarographic analysis for corticosteroids: Part 4. Determination of Corticosteroids in Multicomponent and Complex Pharmaceutical Preparations

Differential pulse polarographic methods for determination of corticosteroids in multicomponent and complex pharmaceutical preparations are described. The influence of other reducible common components of such preparations and excipients on the height of the reduction peaks of corticosteroids and the accuracy of the results was investigated, as well as the interference of excipients by adsorption processes at the electrode or at solid particles of the preparations. In the procedures developed, variations in composition of the supporting electrolyte according to the lipophilicity of the preparation, and the use of standard additions, produce results quickly and reliably. Standard deviations vary from 0.8 to 2.8%.     

Activation analysis of high-purity silicon

³²P was separated from the irradiated silicon matrix as ammonium phosphomolybdate and the activity was measured with a GM tube or on a plastic scintillator. The second-order interference was taken into consideration. Research associate of the N.F.W.O.     

Wavelength independence of Eu quantum yields

A quantitative comparison between the excitation and absorption spectra of Eu³⁺ in aqueous solution is given which leads to the conclusion that fluorescence quantum yields are independent of the excitation wavelength. Use is made therefore of the series of homologous lines ⁵D₃, ⁵D₂, ⁵D₁, ⁵D₀ → ⁷F₁.     

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Escape from the unstable equilibrium in a random process with infinitely many interacting particles

We consider a one-dimensional version of the model introduced in Ref. l. At each site of Z there is a particle with spin ± 1. Particles move according to the Stirring Process and spins change according to the Glauber dynamics. In the hydrodynamical limit, with the stirring process suitably speeded up, the local magnetic densitym _t(r) is proven in Ref. 1 to satisfy the reaction-diffusion equation (*) $$\partial _t m_t (r) = \tfrac{1}{2}\partial _r^2 m_t (r) - V'(m_t )$$ \(V(m) = - \tfrac{1}{2}\alpha m^2 + \tfrac{1}{4}\beta m^4 \) ,α andβ being determined by the parameters of the Glauber dynamics. In the present paper we consider an initial state with zero magnetization,m ₀(r)=0. We then prove that at long times, before taking the hydrodynamical limit, the evolution departs from that predicted by (*) and that the microscopic state becomes a nontrivial mixture of states with different magnetizations.