ABSTRACT: Composite mobility peak of multiple ion families in the atmosphere predicted by Mohnen [Mohnen, 1977] has analytically been obtained using a general solution of coupled diffusionreaction equations governing the spatiotemporal evolution of the number densities of an arbitrary number of ionic species. In model analysis at dynamic equilibrium, three discrete mobility spectra can be numer...

Experiments were carried out over 15 mo to assess the net exchange of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) by the symbiotic coral Acropora palmata (Lamarck) under near-natural environmental conditions. Specimens were enclosed in situ in transparent acrylic chambers and changes in the ambient seawater concentrations of nitrate, nitrite and ammonium determined over 1 h closed incubat ion~ . There w...

The crystal structure, rotational barriers and vibrational spectrum of ammonium cyanate have been studied by DFT calculations. The results show that, in the most stable structure, the ammonium ion is oriented such that each N H bond points towards the N atoms of a cyanate anion giving rise to N H N hydrogen bonding, rather than N H O hydrogen bonding. The N C and C O bond lengths suggest that t...

INTRODUCTION Mobile-phase ion chromatography (MPIC) is a technique that combines ion-pair chromatography with suppressed conductivity detection. Ion-pair chromatography is commonly used in combination with UV detection, in which case it is referred to as reversedphase ion-pair chromatography (RPIPC). MPIC has the advantage of using conductivity detection, which serves as a universal detection m...

The existence of like-charge guanidinium-guanidinium contact ion pairs in water is established by ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. Despite direct electrostatic repulsion a contact ion pair is observed between two guanidinium cations, stabilized primarily by their amphiphilic behavior and van der Waals interactions. In a control simulation performed for two aqueous ammonium cations no s...