Acetylene Formation from Lower Aliphatic Hydrocarbons by a Plasma Jet

Subterminal oxidation of aliphatic hydrocarbons.

Evidence is presented for a catabolic pathway of n-alkane oxidation which proceeds via subterminal oxidation rather than methyl group oxidation.

Simulation of a Helium Atmospheric Plasma Jet Using Fluid Equations

In this study, a cold atmospheric He plasma jet is investigated. The jet is of dielectric barrier discharge type, consisting of a dielectric tube with two metal ring electrodes. The continuity, momentum and energy conservation equations as well as the Poisson equation for obtaining the potential and the electric field, accompanied with the ideal gas laws, are used for the simulation. The result...

Jet quenching as a probe of gluon plasma formation

We study, in a pQCD calculation augmented by nuclear effects, the jet energy loss needed to reproduce the π spectra in Au+Au collisions at large pT , measured by PHENIX at RHIC. The transverse width of the parton momentum distributions (intrinsic kT ) is used phenomenologically to obtain a reliable baseline pp result. Jet quenching is applied to the nuclear spectra (including shadowing and mult...

Concentrations of individual serum or plasma bile acids in workers exposed to chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons.

Individual serum or plasma bile acid concentrations were measured by high performance liquid chromatography in two groups of workers with differing exposures: to hexachlorobutadiene (HCBD) and a mixture of other chlorinated solvents (SOLVENT) in study A; and trichloroethylene (TCE) in study B. Exposures to HCBD and TCE were associated with highly significant increases in a number of individual ...

Formation of hydrocarbons by bacteria and algae.