TO THE EDITOR: Arieli (1) draws attention to experiments showing that solubility of individual gases may be reduced when high concentrations of multiple gases are present simultaneously. Results with in vitro systems of ethanol and water may not be representative of gases in tissue; for example, metabolism of oxygen will lower the oxygen partial pressure far below the inhaled value so tissue ma...

Aktrrct-Aqueous-phase oxidation of SO, occurs via a sequence of steps consisting of gas-phase diffusion, mass transfer at the gas-water interface, hydrolysis and ionization of the dissolved sulfur-IV, aqueous-phase diffusion, and oxidation reaction. Expressions are given for the characteristic times of these several processes for reaction in aqueous droplets. Readily applicable crite.ria are de...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in formulating solid dispersions, which purposes mainly include solubility enhancement, sustained drug release and taste masking. The most notable problem by these dispersions is drug-carrier (in)solubility. Here we focus on solubility parameters as a tool for predicting the solubility of a drug in certain carriers. Solubility parameters were de...

Highly blood soluble gases exchange with the bronchial circulation in the airways. On inhalation, air absorbs highly soluble gases from the airway mucosa and equilibrates with the blood before reaching the alveoli. Highly soluble gas partial pressure is identical throughout all alveoli. At the end of exhalation the partial pressure of a highly soluble gas decreases from the alveolar level in th...

We employ molecular dynamics simulations to study the solubility and molecular conformations of n-alkane chains in water. We find nearly exponential decrease in solubility with carbon number up to n-eicosane (C(20)), and excellent agreement with experiment up to n-dodecane (C(12)). We detect no sharp break in the dependence of the solubility upon carbon number. A free energy landscape analysis ...

The object of this work is solubility correlation and prediction of CO2 and H2S in various aqueous alkanolamines using the electrolyte cubic square-well equation of state (eCSW EoS) (Haghtalab, A.,Mazloumi, S. H., (2010), Electrolyte Cubic Square-Well Equation of State for Computation of the Solubility CO2 and H2S in Aqueous MDEA Solutions,  Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.,49,6221-623). The eEoS systemati...

The rate of penetration and the solubility of H, O, N, NH(3), H(2)O, HCl gas, CO(2), formic, acetic, chloracetic, dichloracetic acid, glycerol, phenol and mercury bichloride in dry collodion membranes have been measured. The rate of penetration of H and CO(2) is the same whether the membrane and gas are dry or whether the membrane is immersed in water. The solubility of CO(2), acetic acid, phen...

To gain insight into the transport behavior of gas molecules such as CO2versus N2 through ionic liquid membranes, we performed molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the structure and dynamics of CO2 and N2 gases in a tetracyanoborate based ionic liquid recently shown to exhibit high CO2/N2 permselectivity. We found that upon addition of CO2 or N2 the liquid structure does not change. CO...

Understanding the solubility of nitrogen gas in tissues is a crucial aspect of diving physiology, especially for air-breathing tetrapods. Adipose tissue is of particular interest because of the high solubility of nitrogen in lipids. Surprisingly, nothing is known about nitrogen solubility in the blubber of any marine mammal. We tested the hypothesis that N(2) solubility is dependent on the lipi...