Anybody out there know of a good source for crystallographic data
on inorganic compounds?
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MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY (MRS) SPRING MEETING
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
APRIL 4 -8, 1994
SYMPOSIUM I : MATERIALS & PROCESSES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
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Dear colleagues :
In response to the growing concern over the increasing
environmental pollution, ozone depletion and dwindling natural
resources the MRS announces a new symposium in "Materials and
Processes for Environmental Protection" to generate and foster
nformation exchange, interaction and co-operation throughout a
wide spectrum of industry,academia, government policy makers and
research institutions actively involved in this crucial area. The
materials and materials related aspects of pollution control,
waste minimization, efficiency enhancement and effluent processing
in manufacturing; power generation and fuel synthesis from green
house gases will be addressed in two parts. It is expected that
this symposium will be the foundation of a countinuing series of
symposia sponsored by the MRS to respond to the concerns in the
ever evolving field of environmental protection. Proceedings of
this symposium will be published. In the future, additional areas
of concern will be addresed. Papers/posters are solicited in the
two day sections in the following areas:
Section 1 : Materials & Manufacturing Processes :
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* Environmentaly conscious manufacturing of elctroinc materials.
* Novel, efficient, non polluting thin film deposition & etching
processes.
* Efluent cleaning, reuse, regeneration in electronic devices
fabrication processes.
* Substitution, catalytic destruction of halogenated hydrocarbons
in materials processing.
* Novel, non polluting techniques of mineral procesing and metal
extraction.
* Catalysts and materials for VOC emissions in paint shops, polymer
and chemical processing.
* Recycling, reforming and bio-degradation of plastics and
polymers.
* Catalytic destruction of odors and effluents in food processing.
Section 2 : Fuels and Power Generation :
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from Carbon dioxide, methane and hydrogen as feed-stocks.
* Materials and catalysts for emission control and claen combustion
of syn-fuels.
* Novel techniques for fuel synthesis from green house gases.
* Catalysts and materials for pre-combustion processing of coal
and natural gas for removal of sulfur and nitrogen organics.
* Catalysts and processes for SO2 and NOx removal from flue gases
and turbine exhausts.
* Materials for filtration and removal of particles and aerosols
from hot gases.
* Materials for catalysts supposrt in extreme environment.
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Carol Adkins Prasad N. Gadgil
Div. 1815, PO Box 5800 Department of Physics
Sandia National Labs., Queen’s University
Albuquerque Kingston,ON,Canada K7L 3N6
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Englehard Corporation Englehard Corporation
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(E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.), R. J. Ferrauto (Englehard Corp.)
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For session chairs and invited speakers, please send me a
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symposium. MRS policy is to honor people in these catagories by a
fixed (not known yet) sum to help attend this symposium.
Sincerely,
Prasad N. Gadgil
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In <28v5jh$…@juniper.almaden.ibm.com> amil…@almaden.ibm.com (Alex Miller) writes:
>Where is CHMINF-L (Chemical Information Sources Discussion List)?
>I need to know the e-mail address where I can send a "SUBSCRIBE" request.
>Thanks,
Alex,
To subscribe:
Chemical Information Sources List
LISTS…@IUBVM.BITNET
or
LISTS…@UCS.INDIANA.EDU
SUBJECT CHMINF-L your_name
Hope this helps,
Roger
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Roger S. Mercer merc…@gov.on.ca
Dioxin Unit, Laboratory Services Branch
Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Well, I have seen quite a lot of discussion regarding this subject and
whether or not the airbags are harmful to tthe individuals in the car
when they deploy. I will answer here from personal experience:
I am a chemist but I am also a paramedic. I have been on
numerous accidents where airbags have deployed. With total DISREGARD to
the toxicity of sodium azide, as that has been well established in this
thread, the major problem my patients have experienced with respect to
airbags, are minor (to this point anyway) chemical burns. There is some
NaOH in the bags and furthermore, when they inflate, little bitty
particles of dust, plastic, etc get blown around as well. The most
common complaints are a minor burning sensation in the eyes or on the
face (treated with simple saline irrigation). I also saw one where a
woman wearing a substantial amount of make-up out a perfect imprint of
lips on the front of the bag as well. 
I have yet to deal with either a patient or another emergency
provider that has experienced symptoms of toxicity from airbag
deployment. I did read an article within about the last 12-18 months in
"Annals of Emergency Medicine" regarding chemical burns from airbags.
I, personally, would much rather have a little dust in my eyes
than a steering column imbedded in my chest!! By the way, I’v seen that
a few times, too and those patients tend to do much more poorly than the
"airbag contingent."
I guess I just had to put in my own $0.02 on this subject!!
Rob Palmer, EMT-P, MS
Dept of Chemistry
U of Washington
r…@peptide.chem.washington.edu
A little while back, Johan Blixt posted a note requesting any information
available on a DNMR program that was more user friendly than UI QCPE’s
DNMR-5. I, too am very interested in this and have also experienced a
great deal of frustration both with DNMR-5 and the QCPE in general (they
are always very rude, refuse to return telephone calls and generally are
of little technical use regarding their own programs - not what I would
call good business practices, but whatever makes them happy).
Anyway, Johan, I tried to get in touch with you via email, but the
message keeps bouncing back. Please let me know your address.
If anyone does have any information on programs useful in deriving rate
constants from dynamic NMR data, PLEASE let Johan and I know!!!!
Thank you!!
Rob Palmer
Dept. of Chemistry
U of Washington, Seattle
r…@peptide.chem.washington.edu
This might be a pretty stupid question. A friend of mine has done an
experiment to study the temperature effect on reaction rate when some
enzyme is added to some reaction mixture. The only data she has are of course
the temperatures and Absorbances values measured from a spectrophotometer.
She is asked to use the Arrhenius equation to solve for the activation
energy for the reaction. All the Arrhenius equation is that ln k =
(-E/RT). Her book says that since this is a zero order kinetics, k can
be substituted by v, the velocity. The only equation she has concerning
Absorbance is A=elc, where e is the extinction coefficient, l is the light
path, c is the concentration. How can the velocity be figured out if only
the absorbance value is available. I don’t really know much about chemistry
as I am a computer science undergraduate.
Please correct any error on the above and suggest some way of figuring out
the velocity. Thanks very much.
– Ivan Yu
As part of our undergraduate education at WPI we are expected to complete a
number of Projects. For the "second" of these projects my partner and I have
undertaken the production of a number of exercises at the High School (sort of)
level in the subject of Molecular Modeling and Computational Chemistry. We al-
ready have a number of experiments and are looking for any help anyone with
experience in this area or a good head on their shoulders might be able to
offer.
We are using HyperChem for Windows v3, and our test subjects are participants
involved in an accelerated High School program here, on campus. Some of these
students are accelerated to the point of sitting in on the Sophomore Organic
Chemistry Lectures, so most areas of undergraduate chemistry should be fair
game. Particularly we are looking for help in the area of inorganic chemistry.
We are currently in the process of brainstorming and any ideas are more than
welcome.
Thank you for your help.
Dan Watkins (Watk…@wpi.wpi.edu)
P.S. If this is a less than appropriate group please forgive the intrusion and
could you point me to one which would offer us the help we desire.
I’m searching for sources of information/experience pertaining
to the handling of MON25 (propellant). I specifically need ideas for
transfering the propellant (oxidizer) in small quantities into containers
for indeterminate storage intervals. The MON25 must not degrade to
MON24 or less durring transfer and subsequent sampling procedure. Cryogenic
techniques are desired.
Please E-mail info or sources.
Thanks, Phil
CAISU (Canadian Alumni of the International Space University)
presents its 3rd Annual Student Space Conference to be
held on October 30th 1993 at
Sandford Fleming Building, Lecture Hall 1105
from 8:30 am – 6:00
Registration at the door: 20$ (includes Hart House luncheon)
Keynote speakers: Mr. Laurent A. Bergeron, Vice-President,
Canadian Space Agency
Dr. Ken Money, Canadian astronaut
Students interested in presenting a paper for the poster session
should do so by email by October 22nd 1993.
All enquires should be directed to :
Christine marton
President, CAISU
cmar…@epas.utoronto.ca
cmar…@caisu.ists.ca
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about academic studies, research
programs and career opportunities related to space.
Followup-To:
Distribution: ont
Organization: EPAS Computing Facility, University of Toronto
Keywords:
space, careers, students
Cc:
My lawn mower has a 12 V lead-acid battery that will not hold much of a charge
.
After putting it on the charger it will only turn the starter for a second
and then go dead. I took the caps off the cells and put the charger on and
noticed all the cells but one were bubbling (hydogen i guess). I suspect the
cell that was not bubbling is the problem. Is there any way to "refresh" the
cell so i dont have to buy a new battery? Would just new battery acid work or
would i have to add CuSO4 also. For what its worth, its the cell that is
nearest the positive terminal that is at fault.
Many thanks,
Allen
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