Soft single-photon ionisation (SPI)–time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOFMS) has been used to investigate the effect of different
cigarette-lighting devices on the chemical composition of the mainstream smoke from the first cigarette puff. Lighting devices
examined were a Borgwaldt electric lighter, a propane/butane gas lighter, a match, a candle, and the burning zone of another
cigarette. To eliminate the effects of the different masses of tobacco burnt by use of the different lighting methods a normalisation
procedure was performed which enabled investigation of changes in the chemical patterns of the resulting smoke. When another
cigarette was used as the lighting device, elevated levels of ammonia and other nitrogen-containing substances were observed.
These are high in the sidestream smoke of the cigarette used for lighting and would be drawn into the mainstream smoke of
the cigarette being lit. In contrast, smoke from the cigarette lit by the electric lighter contained slightly higher normalised
amounts of isoprene. Lighting the cigarette by use of a candle resulted in larger amounts of substances, e.g. benzene, which
most probably originated from thermal decomposition of wax. The composition of the first puff of smoke obtained by use of
the three lighting methods with open flames (gas lighter, match, and candle) was usually similar whereas the composition of
the smoke produced by use of the electric lighter and the cigarette as the lighter were more unique. The chemical patterns
generated by the different lighting devices could, however, be separated by principal-component analyses. Two additional test
series were also studied. In the first the cigarette was lit with an electric lighter, then extinguished, the ash was cut
off, and the cigarette was re-lit. In the second the cigarette was heated in an oven to 80 °C for 5 min before being lit.
These treatments did not result in changes in the chemical composition compared with cigarettes lit in the ordinary way.
Figure Time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOFMS) has been used to investigate the effect of different cigarette-lighting devices on
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We introduce new special ellipsoidal confocal coordinates in
n (n ≥ 3) and apply them to the geodesic problem on a triaxial ellipsoid in
3 as well as the billiard problem in its focal ellipse.
Using such appropriate coordinates we show that these different dynamical systems have the same common analytic first integral. This fact is not evident because there exists a geometrical spatial gap between the geodesic and billiard flows under consideration, and this separating gap just “veils” the resemblance of the two systems.
In short, a geodesic on the ellipsoid and a billiard trajectory inside its focal ellipse are in a “veiled assonance”—under the same initial data they will be tangent to the same confocal hyperboloid. But this assonance is rather incomplete: the dynamical systems in question differ by their intrinsic action angle-variables, thereby the different dynamics arise on the same phase space (i.e. the same phase curves in the same phase space bear quite different rotation numbers).
Some results of this work have been published before in Russian (Tabanov, 1993) and presented to the International Geometrical Colloquium (Moscow, May 10–14, 1993) and the International Symposium on Classical and Quantum Billiards (Ascona, Switzerland, July 25–30, 1994). 相似文献
The electronic structure of silicon carbide with increasing germanium content have been examined using first principles calculations based on density functional theory. The structural stability is analysed between two different phases, namely, cubic zinc blende and hexagonal phases. The zinc blende structure is found to be the stable one for all the Si1-xGexC semiconducting carbides at normal pressure. Effect of substitution of Ge for Si in SiC on electronic and mechanical properties is studied. It is observed that cubic SiC is a semiconductor with the band gap value 1.243?eV. The band gap value of SiC is increased due to the substitution of Ge and the band gap values of Si 0.75 Ge 0.25 C, Si 0.50 Ge 0.50 C, Si 0.25 Ge 0.75 C and GeC are 1.322 eV, 1.413 eV, 1.574 eV and 1.657?eV respectively. As the pressure is increased, it is found that the energy gap gets decreased for Si1-x GexC (X?=?0, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1). The elastic constants satisfy the Born – Huang elastic stability criteria. The bulk modulus, shear modulus, Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio are also calculated and compared with the other available results. 相似文献