Toluene and a mixture of the isomeric xylenes are common organic solvents that have been implicated in false ethanol results produced by older models of the Intoxilyzer 5000, a breath alcohol analyzer that uses infrared spectrophotometry to quantitate ethanol in breath samples. A straightforward method is described which predicts this type of interference in analyses conducted on such models. T...

In the course of an investigation of the use of infrared spectrophotometry for bacterial identification (Stevenson and Bolduan, 1952; Levine et al., 1953b), it has been found that a characteristic set of absorption bands appears in the spectra of Enterobacteriaceae and other bacteria under certain cultural conditions. Since this set of bands is common to many organisms, it is important in ident...

Antigenic extracts of Streptococcus group E (SGE) were subjected to fractional ethanol precipitation, block (preparative) electrophoresis, and gel filtration for the purpose of separating the type antigen from the group antigen. Ethanol precipitation was ineffective in separating the substances. Block electrophoresis yielded serologically pure group antigen and a mixture of type and group antig...

In this paper we present ISO mid-infrared spectrophotometry and far-infrared photometry of galaxies with Hidden Broad Line Regions (HBLR). We also present radiative transfer models of their spectral energy distributions which enable us to separate the contributions from the dusty disc of the AGN and the dusty starbursts. We find that the combination of tapered discs (discs whose thickness incre...

The photosystem II reaction center mediates the light-induced transfer of electrons from water to plastoquinone, with concomitant production of O2. Water oxidation chemistry occurs in the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC), which consists of an inorganic Mn4CaO5 cluster and its surrounding protein matrix. Light-induced Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) difference spectroscopy has been successfully u...

The effect of various controlling factors on the polymorphic outcome of sodium dehydroacetate crystallization was investigated in this study. Cooling crystallization experiments of sodium dehydroacetate in water were conducted at different concentrations. The results revealed that the rate of supersaturation generation played a key role in the formation of the hydrates. At a high supersaturatio...