A 28-electron reduced C2h-Mo-blue 34Ǻ outer ring diameter circular ring, [Mo142O429H10(H2O)49(CH3CO2)5(C2H5CO2)] (≡{Mo142(CH3CO2)5(C2H5CO2)}) comprising eight carboxylate-coordinated (with disorder) {Mo2} linkers and six defect pockets in two inner rings (four and three for each, respectively), reacts with La in aqueous solutions at pH 3.5 to yield a 28-electron reduced elliptical Ci-Mo-blue ri...

We have modeled the emission of H2O rotational lines from the extreme C-rich star IRC+10216. Our treatment of the excitation of H2O emissions takes into account the excitation of H2O both through collisions, and through the pumping of the ν2 and ν3 vibrational states by dust emission and subsequent decay to the ground state. Regardless of the spatial distribution of the water molecules, the H2O...

Ab initio calculations of depolarization ratios and intensities of classically scattered light, in terms of dipole polarizabilities and polarizability anisotropies, are reported for different hydrogen bonded molecular clusters. Five different groups of organic heterodimers formed with water are considered: HCHO · · ·H2O, CH3HO · · ·H2O, HCOOH · · ·H2O, CH3CN · · ·H2O, and (CH3)2CO · · ·H2O, tog...

We report the first systematic study of the submillimeter water vapor rotational emission lines in infrared (IR) galaxies based on the Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) data of Herschel SPIRE. Among the 176 galaxies with publicly available FTS data, 45 have at least one H2O emission line detected. The H2O line luminosities range from ∼ 1× 105 L⊙ to ∼ 5× 10L⊙ while the total IR luminosities (...

The slow but spontaneous and ubiquitous formation of C3(H2O), the hydrolytic and conformationally rearranged product of C3, initiates antibody-independent activation of the complement system that is a key first line of antimicrobial defense. The structure of C3(H2O) has not been determined. Here we subjected C3(H2O) to quantitative cross-linking/mass spectrometry (QCLMS). This revealed details ...

The solubility of fluorite in H2O and H2O–NaCl has been measured at 600–1000 °C, 0.5–2.0 GPa in a piston–cylinder apparatus. Fluorite dissolves congruently at all conditions investigated. The data indicate that the concentration of fluorite dissolved in H2O is low at 600 °C and 0.5 GPa (0.0014 mol/kg H2O) but increases strongly with temperature (T) and pressure (P) to 0.247 mol/kg H2O at 1000 °...

Doubly charged lead monohydrate, [Pb(H2O)]2+, was predicted to be unstable in the gas phase, but it has recently been observed to form in low yield via ligand change between [Pb(CH3CN)]2+ and H2O [Shi, T.; Orlova, G.; Guo, J.; Bohme, D. K.; Hopkinson, A. C.; Siu, K. W. M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 7975-7980]. Here we report that abundant [Pb(H2O)]2+ is formed in the gas phase by ligand-excha...

Quartz solubility in H2O-CO2 fluids was measured at 800 °C and 10 kbar. Mixed fluids were generated from hydrous oxalic acid, silver oxalate, silver carbonate, and liquid H2O; solubility was determined by weight changes of the quartz crystals. Stringent blank tests and weighing procedures were used to establish the CO2 and H2O contents of experimental fluids. Using experimentally constrained mo...