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This book consists of 15 chapters, written by authoritative specialists, on some of the most intriguing and promising topics of modern chemistry. The authors describe the lines along which chemical research will develop in the next decade, using a plain language well understandable even by non-specialists. The book originated from the lectures presented on the occasion of a meeting held in Pavia, Italy, "Chemistry at the Beginning of the Third Millennium" by distinguished scientists from the Universities of Bologna, Heidelberg, Jena, Padua, Pavia and Siena.
This book discusses the evolution and uses for capillary
electrochromatography as a new dimension to current separation
science. With the emergence of this technique the selection of
available separation mechanisms increases dramatically. The book
also discusses the new horizons in the separation of non-polar
compounds which have been opened as a result of CEC. Over ten
chapters authors cover a wide variety of topics and provide the
reader with necessary theoretical background, description of the
instrumentation, modes of operation and methods of detection and an
overview of the broad variety of applications of capillary
electrochromatography.
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Marie Curie (1867-1934) was one of the most important woman
scientists in history, and she was one of the most influential
scientists--man or woman--of the 20th century. Curie postulated
that radiation was an atomic property, a discovery that has led to
significant scientific developments since. She was also the first
person to use the term "radioactivity." Her perseverance led to the
discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium. This
combination of creativity and perseverance netted her two Nobel
Prizes, one in physics and the second in chemistry. This book,
however, looks at more than her scientific achievements. While
Curie is often portrayed as a stern, one-dimensional woman so
totally committed to her science that she was incapable of complex
emotions, the truth is that the opposite is the case. Marie Curie:
A Biography covers her entire lifetime, beginning with her early
life and education in a Poland under the oppressive rule of the
czar of Russia. The book discusses all aspects--both personal and
scientific--of her fascinating life:
- Her education at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she earned the
equivalent of two master's degrees--one in physics and a second in
mathematics
- Her marriage to Pierre Curie, with whom she collaborated on
much of her scientific work
- The personal scandal that surrounded Marie in the aftermath of
Pierre's tragic death
- The Nobel Prize awards, and the detractors who believed that
her work was actually performed by her husband
- Curie's work in establishing mobile X-ray units during World
War I, and the establishment of radium institutes to study
radiation
Running throughout there is the much of thebook is the tension
between radium as a positive discovery and, on the other hand, the
health risks that working with it presents. The book includes a
timeline of important events in Curie's life and a bibliography of
important primary and secondary sources.
While determination of elastic and mechanical properties has always
been important to some industrial laboratories, the significance of
these measurements has increased tremendously in recent years for
both academic and industrial scientists and engineers. This is as a
result of new advance materials research and automated
manufacturing and processing methods. "Physical Methods of
Chemistry" has been written by researchers who have broad practical
laboratory experience in the application of their respective
techniques. The chapters provide, either directly or through
clearly designated references, information that is essential to the
use of these techniques in the laboratory.
Realistic exam prep is the key to mastering OCR A A-Level Chemistry
and CGP has both years covered with this brilliant Exam Practice
Workbook! It's bursting with questions covering every topic
students need to know, including a section of mixed (synoptic)
questions. We've also added in tips throughout to make sure there
are no unpleasant surprises in their exams! To round things off
there are fully worked answers and mark schemes for every question.
For study notes and even more practice don't miss the CGP OCR A
A-Level Chemistry Complete Revision & Practice guide
(9781782943020).
Die Behandlung der Leguminosen in der Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen
wird mit Band XIb-1 fortgesetzt. In ihm werden die von den
Caesalpinioideae und Mimosoideae bekannt gewordenen Naturstoffe im
Rahmen der natA1/4rlichen Klassifikation der Familie besprochen.
Der Teilband enthAlt A1/4ber 2000 Literaturhinweise sowie ein
eigenes Pflanzennamen- und Stichwortregister. Hegnauer's
Chemotaxonomie is an indispensable handbook for all those
scientific disciplines concerned with not only systematic botany,
but all aspects of the plant world. Both text and bibliography
reflect our present knowledge of the particularities of plant
metabolism. The last volume of Chemotaxonomy of Plants treats
Leguminosae in three parts. XIa.: General aspects. XIB-1:
Phytochemistry and chemotaxonomy of Caesalpinioideae and
Mimosoideae. XIb-2: Phytochemistry and chemotaxonomy of
Papilionoideae (in preparation). These three volumes form a
valuable tool for everyone with an interest in the Leguminosae.
They are not only relevant to plant taxonomists, plant
physiologists, and natural product chemists but also to ecologists,
agriculturists, nutritional scientists, pharmacists,
pharmacologists and ethnobotanists. The cosmopolitan Leguminosae
cover approximately 600 genera and 13000 species including many
economically and ethnobotanically important plants. Each of the
three volumes devoted to Leguminosae contains a taxonomic index, a
subject index and over 2000 references.
World-wide environmental legislation limiting the use of solvent
based ink systems of the preceding decades has resulted in the
development of a substitute and more environmentally safe
alternative utilizing water base technologies. This has resulted in
an enormous research and development effort by a multiplicity of
related industries. Because of the tremendous evolution brought
about by these changing technologies it has been extremely
difficult for the water base ink chemist to keep abreast of the
latest innovations. This book provides a working knowledge of the
chemistry and technology of water base ink systems for chemists and
engineers in the industry. It provides a foundation in all aspects
of the industry, from the perception of color theory to the final
starting point formulations. The articles in this volume have been
specifically picked out to enlighten some of the most difficult
problem areas in formulation and development. Highly practical, it
is written by authors with many years of experience in the
industry, ensuring commercial relevance throughout.
This volume is a collection of contributions to the FT-IR Workshop
held under the auspices of the Spectroscopy Society of Canada and
organ ized by Professor Theophile Theophanides, Director of the
Workshop. The gathering of leading spectroscopists and researchers
at Gray Rocks to discuss .Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
was the occasion of the 29th Annual Conference of the Spectroscopy
Society of Canada. The plea sant surroundings of Gray Rocks,
St-Jovite, Quebec, Canada contributed most positively to the
success of the two-day Workshop held September 30, October 1, 1982.
The preliminary program and the proceedings were distributed at the
Workshop by Multiscience Publications Ltd. The publication of this
volume provides the occasion to thank all the contributors for
kindly accepting to lecture at the Workshop and for their
collaboration. I thank Mr. AI. Dufresne for accepting to act as
manager of the Workshop and Mrs. Susane Dufresne secretary of the
Work shop for patiently contacting all the participants and for
making the necessary arrangements of registration and
accomodation."
In der neueren Forschung gehoren die Substanzbucher der Metaphysik
zu den meistdiskutierten Aristotelischen Texten. In den letzten
zweieinhalb Jahrzehnten entwickelte sich eine umfangreiche
Diskussion, die zu einem ganz neuen Bild von der Aristotelischen
Substanzlehre fuhrte. Eine fur die Seminararbeit zugangliche
Ubersicht uber diese Diskussion und den neuesten Stand der
Forschung lag aber bisher im deutschen Sprachraum nicht vor. Der
Band hilft diesem Mangel ab. Seine Beitrage geben unterschiedliche
Standpunkte wieder und reflektieren den jeweiligen Forschungsstand,
so dass sowohl fur die Seminardiskussion als auch fur die eigene
Beschaftigung mit diesem Thema eine direkt aus der Forschung
gewonnene Grundlage vorliegt. MIT BEITRAGEN VON: Andreas
Anagnostopoulos, Thomas Buchheim, Mary Louise Gill, Donald
Morrison, Christof Rapp, Holmer Steinfath, Walter Mesch und Michael
V. Wodin."
Aerosol therapy has significantly improved the treatment of a
variety of respiratory diseases. Besides the treatment of
respiratory diseases there is currently also a great interest to
use the lungs as a portal to introduce drugs for systemic therapy.
The success of therapy with the application of aerosolized
medicaments depends on the possibility to deliver the proper amount
of drug to the appropriate sites in the respiratory system, thus
limiting the side effects to a minimum. Aerosolized delivery of
drugs to the lung is optimized if, for a given chemical composition
of a medicine, the target of deposition and the required mass of
drug to be deposited are precisely defined.
The next step is the specification of the number of respirable
particles or droplets, to be generated by appropriate devices.
Another very important factor for successful aerosol therapy is the
condition of the patient coupled with his or her inhalation
technique.
1 Von der Pharmazie zur Chemie.- 2 Die Organische Analyse und die
Giessener Forschungsschule.- 3 Liebig - der organische Chemiker,
1820-1840.- 4 Liebig und die Briten.- 5 Iiebig und die Geschafte.-
6 Liebig und die Landwirte: Agrikulturchemie.- 7 Liebig und die
AErzte: Die Tierchemie.- 8 Liebig uber Essen und Trinken: Die
Chemie der Nahrung.- 9 liebig und London: Die Chemie der Abwasser.-
10 Popularisieret der Wissenschaft: Liebigs "Chemische Briefe".- 11
Philosoph der Wissenschaft: Die Bacon-Affaire.- 12 Tod und
Wirkungsgeschichte.- Verzeichnis der Anmerkungen.- Anhange.- 1 Carl
Wilhelm Bergemann's Bericht an den Preussischen Minister von.- uber
das Laboratorium in Giessen.- 2 Justus von Liebig - Lebenslauf in
Stichworten.- 3 Wichtige Arbeiten und Veroeffentlichungen von J. v.
Liebig.- 4 Skizze der Landkarte von Grossbritannien.- 5
Grossherzoege von Hessen und Koenige von Bayern zur Zeit Justus von
Liebigs.- Verwandtschaftstafel des Ehepaares Justus Liebig und
Henriette Moldenhauer (Auszug).- Namenverzeichnis.
The interest in control of nonlinear partial differential equation
(PDE) sys tems has been triggered by the need to achieve tight
distributed control of transport-reaction processes that exhibit
highly nonlinear behavior and strong spatial variations. Drawing
from recent advances in dynamics of PDE systems and nonlinear
control theory, control of nonlinear PDEs has evolved into a very
active research area of systems and control. This book the first of
its kind- presents general methods for the synthesis of nonlinear
and robust feedback controllers for broad classes of nonlinear PDE
sys tems and illustrates their applications to transport-reaction
processes of industrial interest. Specifically, our attention
focuses on quasi-linear hyperbolic and parabolic PDE systems for
which the manipulated inputs and measured and controlled outputs
are distributed in space and bounded. We use geometric and
Lyapunov-based control techniques to synthesize nonlinear and
robust controllers that use a finite number of measurement sensors
and control actuators to achieve stabilization of the closed-loop
system, output track ing, and attenuation of the effect of model
uncertainty. The controllers are successfully applied to numerous
convection-reaction and diffusion-reaction processes, including a
rapid thermal chemical vapor deposition reactor and a Czochralski
crystal growth process. The book includes comparisons of the
proposed nonlinear and robust control methods with other approaches
and discussions of practical implementation issues."
After more than twenty years of use Good Laboratory Practice, or
GLP, has attained a secure place in the world of testing chemicals
and other "test items" with regard to their safety for humans and
the environment. Gone are the days when the GLP regulations were
hotly debated amongst scientists in academia and industry and were
accused of stifling flexibility in, imaginative approaches to, and
science-based conduct of, all kinds of studies concerned with toxic
effects and other parameters important for the evaluation and
assessment of products submitted for registration and permission to
market. The GLP regulations have developed from rules on how to
exactly document the planning, conduct and reporting of toxicity
studies to a quality system for the management of a multitude of
study types, from the simple determination of a physical/chemical
parameter to the most complex field studies or ecotoxicology
studies. At the same time the term "Good Laboratory Practice" has
become somewhat of a slogan with the aim to characterise any
reliably conducted laboratory work.
It was the British music critic Neville Cardus, writing on Debussy,
who remarked how "the great sea of Wagner threatened to overwhelm
the world of nineteenth century music". 1 There is an analogy in
mid-nineteenth- century agriculture where the great sea of Justus
von Liebig developed a tidal wave which to this day conceals much
of the original work and merit of others in the same field. Not
only the general public but even students of agriculture may, or
may not, recall the names of Persoz, Kuhlmann and Ville in France,
Thaer and Sprengel in Germany, or even Lawes and Gilbert in
England, to mention a few of them, whose pioneer works were not
pub- licised in the same didactic and polemical manner as those of
Liebig. Among such pioneers was Jean Baptiste Boussingault
(1802-1887) whose funda- mental researches contributed to the
emergence of agriculture from an empirical corpus of facts to the
status of a science. Yet apart from his work in animal and crop
science he also engaged in metallurgical investigations, biology
and pure chemistry. The scientific world was already approaching
the end of an era in which it was possible to embrace several
disciplines adequately. With increasing specialisation,
institutionalism and profeSsionalism in science the polymath was a
gradually disappearing species.
The literature of starch has proliferated in the last ten years at
an almost geometric rate and a number of important changes and
developments in the technology of starch and its derivatives have
taken place which makes it highly desirable to review these in some
depth. The immensity ofthe subject determined the writer to seek
the assistance of a number of prominent workers throughout the
world. Where older work contains factual information of present
value it has been retained, generally in the form of Additional
References. These are brief abstracts which will help specialised
searchers in a branch of the subject to complete the information
given in the text. Inclusion of dis jointed information can often
lead to the loss of coherence and clarity, and the device of the
Additional References, whilst allowing smooth presentation, also
allows the inclusion of up-to-the-minute material appearing after
the main text has been written. Apart from the immense amount of
important practical and theoretical detail required to produce and
use starch for many applications in a number of important
industries, a thorough knowledge is also required of a number of
aspects for the successful buying and selling of starch. This book
was written and published contemporaneously with two others
entitled Starch Production Technology and Examination and Analysis
of Starch and Starch Products. The three books together provide a
wide coverage of starch technology and chemistry with the
self-contained individual volumes providing precise information for
specialist readers."
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