0301-0104/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.chemphys.2009.12.018 * Corresponding author. Address: Department of Ph son University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA. Tel.: +1 864 0805. E-mail address: [email protected] (J.R. Manso Calculations are carried out for the energy accommodation coefficient at a gas–surface interface using a recently developed classical mechanical theory of ...

Patients with malignant hyperthermia experience an exaggerated metabolic response when exposed to volatile anesthetic gases and succinylcholine. The minimum concentration of anesthetic gas needed to trigger a malignant hyperthermia crisis in humans is unknown and may remain so because of the inherent risks associated with studying the complex nature of this rare and lethal genetic disorder. The...

Bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) is a rare disease involving concentric bronchiolar fibrosis that develops rapidly following inhalation of certain irritant gases at sufficiently high acute doses. While there are many potential causes of bronchiolar lesions involved in a variety of chronic lung diseases, failure to clearly define the clinical features and pathological characteristics can lead to am...

This study collects information from absorption and luminescence excitation spectra recorded for Mn atoms isolated in the solid rare gases Ar, Kr, and Xe and presents an analysis of the site occupancy, based on the polarizabilities of the rare gases and the observed spectral shifts. Two thermally stable sites of isolation exist for atomic Mn in solid Ar and Kr, while a single thermally stable s...