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Crossover From First-Order to Critical Wetting: Short-Range Tricritical Wetting

October 22, 2001
Author(s)
David J. Ross, D Bonn, A I. Posazhennikova, J O. Indekeu, J Meunier
We study wetting in liquid mixtures of methanol and the n-alkanes. Mixing alkanes of different chain lengths, we can examine the crossover between critical (continuous) and first-order (discontinuous) wetting transitions. Measurements of the film thickness

Multispectral Probes for Materials and Chemical Analysis

October 1, 2001
Author(s)
Steven A. Buntin
High throughput experimentation is currently restricted by its limited ability to evaluate more than one parameter of a library at a time (e.g., chemical composition, dielectric constant, refractive index, surface roughness, phase , luminescence). When

Speed of Sound as a Thermodynamic Property of Fluids

September 15, 2001
Author(s)
Daniel G. Friend
In this chapter, we review the principles of sound propagation in fluid systems. From a study of the hydrodynamic equations, sound propagation is shown to be a wave phenomenon. The speed of sound then can be derieved at any state point from a knowledge of

Distribution and Retention of 137 Cs in Sediments at the Hanford Site, Washington

September 1, 2001
Author(s)
J P. McKinley, Cynthia J. Zeissler, J M. Zachara, R J. Serne, Richard M. Lindstrom, H T. Schaef, R D. Orr
sium-137 and other contaminants have leaked from many of the single-shell storage tanks at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington. The leakage was into sandy unconsolidated sediments consisting largely of quartz, plagioclase, micas, smectite, and

In Situ Raman Spectroscopic Investigation of Chromium Surfaces Under Hydrothermal Conditions

August 1, 2001
Author(s)
James E. Maslar, Wilbur S. Hurst, Walter J. Bowers Jr., Jay H. Hendricks, M I. Aquino, Igor Levin
Three chromium coupons were exposed to air-saturated water at pressures of ca. 25 MPa and temperatures up to 545 C in an optically accessible flow cell. In situ Raman spectra were collected at different temperatures as the coupons were heated and then
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