For Tanzanian soils dominant in hydrous oxides of iron and amorphous ferri-alumino silicate, a 48-hour (hr) mixing period with the sulphate (SO4) solution was adequate for a near-equilibrium condition. Although differing in their SO4 sorption capacity, all the soils sorbed SO4 at or beyond 1µg ml–1 sulphur (S) concentration in the supernatant. Hydroxyl (OH) ions were displaced during SO4 sorption as indicated by a significant positive correlation between the amount of sorbed SO4 and the difference in pH values determined in 0.1N K2 SO4 and 0.1N KCl, i.e. the dpH values.In a greenhouse experiment, alfalfa was grown on eight soils at six adjusted S concentrations. Sulphur deficiency symptoms appeared in the control pots of those soils which were low in native sorbed SO4, SO4 sorption capacity and initial soil solution S concentration. Sulphur fertilization increased dry matter (DM) yield as well as response to applied S. The external S concentration, i.e. adjusted S concentration required for 95% of the maximum DM yield, ranged from 0.8 to 8.2µg S ml–1 with values less than 2.0 on most of the soils. The external S concentration decreased hyperbolically as the SO4 sorption capacity of the soils increased. The total amount of fertilizer S required to obtain the external S concentration in solution, and at the same time satisfy the SO4 sorption capacity of the soil at the external S concentration (determined from the sorption isotherm) was defined as the external S requirement for the specified yield level of alfalfa. The external S requirement for 95% of the maximum yield of alfalfa varied from soil to soil due to differences in their capacity and intensity for S nutrition.Part of a thesis by the senior author for the MSc (Agric) degree of the University of Dar es Salaam 相似文献
Contact angle and surface tension were measured for distilled and hard water solutions of adjuvants, Ortho X-77, Span-20,
Sterox-NJ. Surfactant-WK, Triton B-1956, Triton X-114, Tween-20, and Sun Oil 11E. The same parameters were measured for suspensions
of atrazine [2-chloro-4-(ethylamino)-6-(isopropylamino)-s-triazine] and ametryne [2-(ethylamino)-4-(isopropylamino)-6-(methylthio)-s-triazine] with and without each adjuvant. All adjuvants reduced surface tension and contact angle of distilled water; Surfactant-WK
was most effective and Tween-20 was least effective. Increasing concentration of surfactants from 0 to 0.1% (v/v) gave progressive
reduction in surface tension and contact angle while higher concentrations, 0.1 to 2.0% (v/v), had no further effect. Surfactant-WK
at 0.1% (v/v) in distilled water reduced the surfact tension from 72.8 dynes/cm to 27 dynes/cm and contact angle from 110°
to 41°. An additional increase in Surfactant-WK concentration from 0.1% (v/v) to 2% (v/v) did not further reduce surface tension
and contact angle. Sun Oil 11E was identical in behavior except that it was less effective than the surfactants. Water hardness
up to 1,000 ppm as Ca ions did not affect surface tension and contact angle in surfactant solutions. An aqueous solution of
atrazine had a higher surface tension and contact angle than ametryne in the absence of surfactants. However, these differences
were not observed when surfactants were added to either herbicide. 相似文献
Formation of nanocrystalline calcia from calcite has been studied in situ via transmission electron microscopy. The crystallographic transformation occurred via two mechanisms: the first is by distortion of the cleaved rhombohedron of calcite, formed by {104} planes in hexagonal coordinates, into a cube. This produced a microstructure of oriented, elongated nanocrystals of calcia with planar boundaries. In the second mechanism, the micrometer-sized parent calcite particles broke up into nano-sized grains as the decomposition began, leading to irregularly shaped, randomly oriented nanocrystals of calcia. 相似文献
Thermal stability of PVC blends with chlororubber-20-graft polyblend-styrene-acrylonitrile [CR-20gp-SAN (2:1)] was studied by HCI evolution techniques and thermogravimetry under isothermal condition. The thermal stability of PVC/CR-20gp-SAN (2:1) blends has been compared with those of PVC/CR-20 and PVC/KM-365B blends. It has been observed that the thermal stability of modified PVC is less than that of unmodified PVC. The CR-20gp-SAN (2:1) modified PVC blends were found to be more stable than PVC/CR-20 blends but less stable than PVC/KM-365B blends. The rate of degradation in PVC blends were observed to be unaffected by the concentration of the modifiers, but the PVC/KM-365B blends were found to be degrading slower in comparison with PVC/CR-20 and PVC/CR-20gp-SAN (2:1) blends. The rate of degradation for PVC/CR-20 blends at lower concentrations (<10%) of modifiers is almost equal to that of PVC/CR-20-gp-SAN (2:1) blends, but more at higher concentrations of modifiers (>10%). The experimental results have been explained on the basis of the chemical nature of the modifiers and their miscibility with PVC. 相似文献
The use of diallyl phthalate as the basis for a non-extractable plasticizer for poly(vinylchloride) (PVC) is well-known. Used in conjunction with a primary plasticizer and a polymerization initiator, a plastisol coating for steel can be formulated which is oil or grease tolerant and can also be used for bonding some structural steel parts if the area is relatively large compared with the load to be applied. Defrayne and Twiss1 describe the bonding of automobile hood assemblies by vinyl plastisol adhesives and Schneberger2 emphasizes their use in the automobile industry though neither article gives the formulations employed. Commercial formulations giving pull-off strengths of the order of 1 to 4 MN. m-2 always incorporate a proportion of a phenolformaldehyde resin or even an epoxy, but sound-deadening and other coatings of steel do not necessarily need this reinforcement. Phillips and Longworth3 particularly studied the use of diallylphthalate (DAP) as a polymerizable plasticizer and the consequent improvement in adhesion to mild steel. Sherlock4 used a simple formulation without additives when investigating the effect of surface cleaning and conversion coatings (oxides and phosphates). It was suggested that, as outlined below, improved adhesion would be expected if a small proportion of triallyl cyanurate (TAC) were added to the polymerizable plasticizer. This paper shows this expectation to be achieved although the proportion of the more expensive TAC needed for substantial increase in bond strength is greater than was hoped. 相似文献
The human liver disorder is a genetic problem due to the habituality of alcohol or effect by the virus. It can lead to liver failure or liver cancer, if not been detected in initial stage. The aim of the proposed method is to detect the liver disorder in initial stage using liver function test dataset. The problem with many real-world datasets including liver disease diagnosis data is class imbalanced. The word imbalance refers to the conditions that the number of observations belongs to one class having more or less than the other class(es). Traditional K- Nearest Neighbor (KNN) or Fuzzy KNN classifier does not work well on the imbalanced dataset because they treat the neighbor equally. The weighted variant of Fuzzy KNN assign a large weight for the neighbor belongs to the minority class data and relatively small weight for the neighbor belongs to the majority class to resolve the issues with data imbalance. In this paper, Variable- Neighbor Weighted Fuzzy K Nearest Neighbor Approach (Variable-NWFKNN) is proposed, which is an improved variant of Fuzzy-NWKNN. The proposed Variable-NWFKNN method is implemented on three real-world imbalance liver function test datasets BUPA, ILPD from UCI and MPRLPD. The Variable-NWFKNN is compared with existing NWKNN and Fuzzy-NWKKNN methods and found accuracy 73.91% (BUPA Dataset), 77.59% (ILPD Dataset) and 87.01% (MPRLPD Dataset). Further, TL_RUS method is used for preprocessing and it improved the accuracy as 78.46% (BUPA Dataset), 78.46% (ILPD Dataset) and 95.79% (MPRLPD Dataset).
The oxidation behavior of a normalized 2.25Cr-1Mo steel tempered previously for 10 hr at different temperatures between 873 and 1023 K has been studied up to a maximum duration of 1000 hr in air at 773–973 K. The oxidation resistance of the steel was found to decrease significantly with the temperature of tempering. Tempering of this steel is reported to cause microstructural changes involving precipitation of Cr as carbides and a decrease in the effective (free) Cr contents, that could influence the oxidation resistance of the Cr-containing alloys. Relative compositions across the thickness of the oxide scales, as analyzed by SEM/EDX and SIMS, suggest that a less Cr-rich (and less protective) and thicker scale on the steel formed because previous tempering caused extensive depletion of free Cr. 相似文献
A study to determine the most optimal heating element for any given processing configuration yields a surprisingly simple
log-linear dependence of the productivity on the heating-element temperature. Aluminum, iron, and aluminum-oxide processing
efficiencies are studied for conditions that span heat treating to melting. The authors note that, in general, the highest
element temperature that may effectively be used for a given heating process is the high-productivity solution. 相似文献