Nuclear Waste and Native America: The MRS Siting Exercise

Drs. Gowda & Easterling provide cross-cultural perspectives on issues of risk perception, equity and policy as they affect nuclear waste storage on Native American sites

Extractive spectrophotometric determination of trace amounts of molybdenum using thiocyanate and ethylisobutrazine hydrochloride

An extractive spectrophotometric method for the determination of trace amounts of molybdenum in hydrochloric acid medium has been developed using potassium thiocyanate and ethylisobutrazine hydrochloride in the presence of ascorbic acid. The ternary complex that is extracted into chloroform has a molar absorptivity of 3.86 × 104 l mol–1 cm–1 at 460 nm. Beer's law is obeyed in the concentration range 0.05–5.6 p.p.m. The complex is stable for over 1 week. The effects of acid and reagent concentrations, time, temperature and foreign ions were investigated. The method has been applied to the determination of molybdenum in steel samples

PROBABILITY MODELS TO STUDY THE SPATIAL PATTERN, ABUNDANCE AND DIVERSITY OF TREE SPECIES

Ecological communities are composed of complex vegetation that differs from community to community and also within the community. The variability of tree species in the community in relation to their environments can be studied by using different statistical tools. The present study was conducted to describe and also to quantify the spatial pattern, abundance and diversity of tree species in the Western Ghats of Karnataka. The spatial pattern of tree species was studied by using Poisson and Negative binomial distributions. Results indicate that most of the selected tree species followed Negative binomial distribution having clumped pattern. The Species abundance distribution was studied by using log series and lognormal distributions in six different forest types (Evergreen, semievergreen, moist deciduous, dry deciduous, scrub and shola forest types). All six different forest types followed lognormal distribution where as evergreen and shola forest types followed log series distribution also. Diversity of the tree species in different forest types was quantified by different diversity indices; it was found that evergreen forest is most diverse

4-Chloro-N-(3-methyl­benzo­yl)benzene­sulfonamide monohydrate

In the title compound, C14H12ClNO3S·H2O, the dihedral angle between the sulfonyl and benzoyl benzene rings is 84.4 (2)°. In the crystal, every water mol­ecule forms four hydrogen bonds with three different mol­ecules of 4-chloro-N-(3-methyl­benzo­yl)benzene­sulfonamide. One of the water H atoms forms a bifurcated hydrogen bond with both the sulfonyl and the carbonyl O atoms of the same mol­ecule. Mol­ecules are linked into layers in the ab plane through N—H⋯O and O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds