Twenty years ago (Fowweather, 1928) a method for the preparation of gold sols for the Lange test on cerebrospinal fluids was published in which gold potassium bromide is reduced by potassium oxalate under the action of daylight. Temperature and light intensity were found to be complementary to some extent; thus it was found advisable to carry out the reaction at a somewhat raised temperature in...

The transient increase in cation permeability observed in duck red cells incubated with norepinephrine has been shown to be a linked, bidirectional, co-transport of sodium plus potassium. This pathway, sensitive to loop diuretics such as furosemide, was found to have a [Na + K] stoichiometry of 1:1 under all conditions tested. Net sodium efflux was inhibited by increasing external potassium, an...

A simple and effective route to design pH-responsive viscoelastic wormlike micelles based on commercial compounds is reported. According to this route, pH-sensitive viscoelastic fluids can be easily obtained by introducing a pH-responsive hydrotrope into a surfactant solution. In this paper, the mixed system of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and potassium phthalic acid (PPA) was studied ...

Chromium selenide (Cr2Se3) nanoparticles were prepared by hydrothermal method from Cr(NO3)3.9H2O and SeCl4 as precursors. These nanoparticles could be produced simply in the presence of cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide, sodium dodecyl sulfate and polyethylenglycole 600 (PEG600) and 4ml of hydrazine hydrate (N2H4.H2O) at 180 ˚C for different times. By varying the reducing agent to potassium boroh...

In the presence of hydrogen peroxide and either potassium iodide, sodium chloride, or potassium bromide, purified human myeloperoxidase was rapidly lethal to several species of Candida. Its candidacidal activity was inhibited by cyanide, fluoride, and azide, and by heat inactivation of the enzyme. A hydrogen peroxidegenerating system consisting of d-amino acid oxidase, flavine-adenine dinucleot...

We have evaluated the electric characteristics of an organic surfactant material, n-Cethyl-trimethyl-ammonium Bromide (C16TAB) to fabricate the p-n homo-junction. This C16TAB was dissolved in the pure water, where the potassium iodide (KI) was added. The impurities adaptation has been processed in this mixed solution with the application of voltage. The KI is ionized in the water and the potass...

We evaluated the Technicon RA-1000 "random-access" analyzer for the measurements of sodium, potassium, and carbon dioxide by an indirect potentiometric method (ion-selective electrode) and for chloride by a colorimetric method (mercuric thiocyanate). For various concentrations of control materials the total precision (CV) ranged from 0.9 to 1.2% for sodium, 1.1 to 1.3% for potassium, 1.0 to 1.2...

Different alkali metal atoms are observed to donate electrons to CF(3)Br molecules that are oriented in space. For collision energies high enough to overcome the Coulomb attraction, a positive ion/negative ion pair is observed and mass-analyzed using coincident time-of-flight mass spectroscopy. The alkali metal cation and various negative ions are observed. The most abundant negative ion is the...

The membrane potential of the human platelet was investigated using the membrane potential probes 3,3'-dipropyl-2,2'-thiadicarbocyanine iodide and tritiated triphenylmethylphosphonium bromide. The membrane potential in physiologic buffer was estimated to be 52-60 mV inside negative. The membrane was depolarized when extracellular potassium or hydrogen ion concentrations were increased. Changes ...