Effects of continuous flow centrifugation on measurements of trace elements in river water: intrinsic contamination and particle fragmentation     

Patrick Ross  Davide Vignati  Janusz Dominik 《水文研究》2006,20(13):2745-2754

Continuous flow centrifugation (CFC) is a well‐established technique used in natural surface water studies to collect large amounts of suspended solids, thus allowing a broad spectrum of measurements. However, a potential contamination or changes in the particle size distribution during the centrifugation may restrain the use of CFC effluents for element analysis in the colloidal and dissolved fractions. In this paper we evaluate the possibility of using the effluent of a Westfalia centrifuge (type KA2‐06‐075, 9700 rpm) for such analysis. This evaluation is based on two laboratory experiments with deionized and tap water and two field experiments in rivers. Elemental concentration changes across the CFC were assessed from the CFC influent and effluent after a filtration at 0·45 µm. Significant increases were found, mainly in the field experiments at a high suspended solids level and a slightly acid pH. A hypothesis was made on the origin of these increases as a superposition of a centrifuge intrinsic contamination and a particle fragmentation effect. A numerical model based on elemental concentration measurements (inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry) gave a particle fragmentation level of 0·55% (mass percentage of particles broken up into smaller fragments during centrifugation). In another experiment, a direct particle counting (single particle counter) shows an excess of particles smaller than 500 nm in the CFC effluent, corresponding to a fragmentation level of 0·11%. In consequence, the use of CFC effluent for element analysis is possible in low‐turbidity river or lake waters, but should be carefully considered in waters with high suspended matter contents. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

The Photon Mean Free Path Sphere, The Minimum Energy, and the Masses of the Main Elementary Particles     

A. Dinculescu 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2006,301(1-4):153-155

The photon mean free path sphere has several properties that strongly correlate with characteristics of the observable universe. This apparent connection led to a set of equations that were recently used to derive the values of the main cosmological parameters. It also leads, via an expression for the minimum energy, to an equation relating the mass of the proton to the mass of the electron.  相似文献   

Electron surfing acceleration in oblique magnetic fields     

M. E. Dieckmann  B. Eliasson  M. Parviainen  P. K. Shukla  A. Ynnerman 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,367(3):865-872

Initially, inhomogeneous plasma jets, ejected by active galactic nuclei and associated with gamma-ray bursts, are thermalized by the formation of internal shocks. Jet subpopulations can hereby collide at Lorentz factors of a few. As the resulting relativistic shock expands into the upstream plasma, a significant fraction of the upstream ions is reflected. These ions, together with downstream ions that leak through the shock, form relativistic beams of ions that outrun the shock. The thermalization of these beams via the two-stream instability is thought to contribute significantly to plasma heating and particle acceleration by the shock. Here, the capability of a two-stream instability to generate relativistic field-aligned and cross-field electron flow, is examined for a magnetized plasma by means of a particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation. The electrons interact with the developing quasi-electrostatic waves and oblique magnetic fields. The simulation results bring forward evidence that such waves, by their non-linear interactions with the plasma, produce a highly relativistic field-aligned electron flow and electron energies, which could contribute to the radio synchrotron emissions from astrophysical jets, to ultrarelativistic leptonic subpopulations propagating with the jet and to the halo particles surrounding the accretion disc of the black hole.  相似文献   

The Influence of Ion-Acoustic Turbulence on the Electron Acceleration in the Reconnecting Current Sheet     

Gui-Ping Wu  Guang-Li Huang  Yu-Hua TangDepartment of Physics  Southeast University  Nanjing  Purple Mountain Observatory  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Nanjing Department of Astronomy  Nanjing University  Nanjing 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2005,5(1):99-109

Through solving the single electron equation of motion and the Fokker-Planck equation including the terms of electric field strength and ion-acoustic turbulence, we study the influence of the ion-acoustic wave on the electron acceleration in turbulent reconnecting current sheets. It is shown that the ion-acoustic turbulence which causes plasma heating rather than particle acceleration should be considered. With typical parameter values, the acceleration time scale is around the order of 10^-6 s, the accelerated electrons may have approximately a power-law distribution in the energy range 20 ～100 keV and the spectral index is about 3～10, which is basically consistent with the observed hard X-ray spectra in solar flares.  相似文献   

A Chandra view of the multiple merger in Abell 2744     

Joshua C. Kempner  Laurence P. David 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,349(2):385-392

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奇异星壳层塌缩的数值研究     

贾建军  黄永锋 《天文学报》2004,45(1):33-41

当奇异星表面的电场不足以支撑整个壳层的时候,壳层就有可能全部落入奇异核中.对这一过程的研究,可以为观测上证认奇异星提供一些可能的理论线索.数值计算表明,底部密度为-8.3×1010gcm-3,亦即质量为-3 4×10-6M(?)的壳层在约5.4×10-3s时间内塌缩到奇异核中,可导致一次持续约0.15s的爆发事件.在过程中平均每个重子释放约6.3 MeV的能量,总辐射能则可高达-1046-1047ergs.这可以用来解释宇宙中一些爆发现象.  相似文献   

New fast models of the Galactic tide     

M. Fouchard 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,349(1):347-356

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The interaction of cosmic rays and magnetized plasma     

A. R. Bell 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,358(1):181-187

A large flux of cosmic rays streaming through a magnetized plasma creates cavities of low plasma density and low magnetic field. The magnetic field focuses the cosmic ray trajectories into the cavities with the possible formation of filaments or beams of high-energy cosmic rays.  相似文献   

非球形轴对称粒子光散射的散射矩阵元素展开系数的数值计算     

丁继烈  许丽生 《成都信息工程学院学报》1999,(3)

扼要地介绍了非球形粒子光散射的散射矩阵元素按广义球函数展开的基本理论,以及球形粒子散射矩阵元素间的关系。在此基础上较详细地阐述了计算展开系数的方法以及在程序研制中所遇到的一些问题。最后,对非球形的Ｃｈｅｂｙｓｈｅｖ粒子光散射的散射矩阵元素的展开系数进行了计算,结果表明数值技术和计算的正确性。  相似文献   

不同栽杉代数土壤抗蚀性的变化   总被引：7，自引：2，他引：5  

杨玉盛  陈光水  彭加才  邱仁辉 《山地学报》1999,17(2):163-167

采用标准地定位研究方法对杂木林及１代,２代,３代和４代杉木人工林土壤颗粒,土壤团聚体组成进行比较分析,结果表明：杂木要受人为干扰少,土壤颗粒及土壤团聚体组成较好,抗蚀性最好;但１代,２代,３代和４代分别是在杂木林及前１代林的采伐迹地上经再度干扰建立起来的,土壤结构破坏率加大,土壤团聚体稳定性减小,因而随着杉木林取代杂木林及杉木连栽代数增加,土壤抗蚀性减弱。  相似文献