The investigation of the interesting collection of the petrified wood from Bondyrz, Roztocze, south-eastern Poland, has been
continued. Two kinds of microprobes such as electron microprobe from the Catholic University of Lublin and synchrotron-based
X-ray microprobe from LURE, Orsay, were applied to detect the elements associated with the main component – silica and their
spatial distribution and interrelations. The distribution of carbon in the petrified material has been established, which
is important since that element is the main remains from the history of the trees. The carbon distribution was characteristic
– it concentrated on a place of primordial dark wood. The distribution patterns of the other elements were either similar
to that of carbon (Cu, Pb) or they concentrated in separate inclusions (Fe, Al, K, Na, Ca). The replicating mode of the original
wood pattern in silica and carbon-containing material was explained. Some indications about the composition of the primordial
petrifying solution, the rate of the petrifaction process and the recent coloration of the sample could be concluded from
the compositional patterns of silica. The boundary between totally and partially petrified zones could be well observed.
Received October 2000. Revision March 6, 2001. 相似文献
Summary: Extensive studies using mussel adhesive protein as a formaldehyde‐free, strong, and water‐resistant adhesive model revealed that a combination of a polymer with catechol moieties and a polymer with amino groups could serve as a strong and water‐resistant wood adhesive. This study demonstrated that the treatment of abundant and readily available brown‐rot‐fungus‐decayed wood with NaBH4 followed by mixing with polyethylenimine resulted in a formaldehyde‐free, strong, and water‐resistant wood adhesive.
Lignin is demethylated by brown‐rot fungi and then reduced using NaBH4. 相似文献
Emerging concerns regarding the toxicity of inhaled wood dust support the need for techniques to quantitate wood content of mixed industrial dusts. The diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS) analysis technique was applied to the determination of wood content of 181 inhalable dust samples (geometric mean concentration: 0.895?mg/m3; geometric standard deviation: 2.73) collected from six wood product industry factories using 25?mm glass fibre filters with the Button aerosol sampler. Prior to direct DRIFTS analysis the filter samples were treated with ethyl acetate and re-deposited uniformly. Standards ranging from 125?µg to 4000?µg were prepared for red oak, southern yellow pine, and red cedar and used for quantitation of samples depending upon the wood materials present at a given factory. The oak standards spectra were quantitated by linear regression of response in Kubelka-Munk units at 1736?cm?1, whereas the pine standards and the cedar standards spectra were quantitated by polynomial regression of response in log 1/R units at 1734?cm?1, with the selected wavenumbers corresponding to stretching vibration of free C=O from cellulose and hemicelluloses. For one factory which used both soft- and hard-woods, a separate polynomial standard curve was created by proportionally combining the oak and pine standards polynomial regression equations based on response (log 1/R) at 1734?cm?1. The analytical limits of detection were approximately 52?µg of oak, 20?µg of pine, 30?µg of cedar, and 16?µg of mixed oak and pine for the factory with mixed woods. Overall, the average of dry wood dust percentage of inhalable dust was approximately 56% and the average dry wood dust weight was 0.572?mg for the Button samples. Across factories, there were statistically significant differences (p?<?0.001) for the percentage of dry wood dust in inhalable dust with factory averages ranging from 33.5 to 97.6%. 相似文献