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Chicory roots improves the taste and odour of organic pork
The carbohydrate inulin is known to reduce the production of skatole in pigs. This is caused by inulin changing the intestinal flora, so that the bacteria that produce skatole are held in check. This change in intestinal flora also reduces the number of intestinal parasites in the pigs. However the high cost of inulin makes its use in pig feed impractical.
Chicory root contains inulin and a series of other carbohydrates and secondary metabolites. Therefore we have examined whether chicory root can replace pure inulin and thereby reduce boar taint, improve the taste of pork and reduce the infection of pigs with pathogenic parasites and bacteria
Lunar resources: Oxygen from rocks and soil
The first set of hydrogen reduction experiments to use actual lunar material was recently completed. The sample, 70035, is a coarse-grained vesicular basalt containing 18.46 wt. percent FeO and 12.97 wt. percent TiO2. The mineralogy includes pyroxene, ilmenite, plagioclase, and minor olivine. The sample was crushed to a grain size of less than 500 microns. The crushed basalt was reduced with hydrogen in seven tests at temperatures of 900-1050 C and pressures of 1-10 atm for 30-60 minutes. A capacitance probe, measuring the dew point of the gas stream, was used to follow reaction progress. Experiments were also conducted using a terrestrial basalt similar to some lunar mare samples. Minnesota Lunar Simulant (MLS-1) contains 13.29 wt. percent FeO, 2.96 wt. percent Fe2O3, and 6.56 wt. percent TiO2. The major minerals include plagioclase, pyroxene, olivine, ilmenite, and magnetite. The rock was ground and seived, and experiments were run on the less than 74- and 500-1168-micron fractions. Experiments were also conducted on less than 74-micron powders of olivine, pyroxene, synthetic ilmenite, and TiO2. The terrestrial rock and mineral samples were reduced with flowing hydrogen at 1100 C in a microbalance furnace, with reaction progress monitored by weight loss. Experiments were run at atmospheric pressure for durations of 3-4 hr. Solid samples from both sets of experiments were analyzed by Mossbauer spectroscopy, petrographic microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, tunneling electron microscopy, and x-ray diffraction. Apollo 17 soil 78221 was examined for evidence of natural reduction in the lunar environment. This sample was chosen based on its high maturity level (I sub s/FeO = 93.0). The FeO content is 11.68 wt. percent and the TiO2 content is 3.84 wt. percent. A polished thin section of the 90-150 micron size fraction was analyzed by petrographic microscopy and scanning electron microscopy
Inelastic Processes in the Collision of Relativistic Highly Charged Ions with Atoms
A general expression for the cross sections of inelastic collisions of fast
(including relativistic) multicharged ions with atoms which is based on the
genelazition of the eikonal approximation is derived. This expression is
applicable for wide range of collision energy and has the standard
nonrelativistic limit and in the ultrarelativistic limit coincides with the
Baltz's exact solution ~\cite{art13} of the Dirac equation. As an application
of the obtained result the following processes are calculated: the excitation
and ionization cross sections of hydrogenlike atom; the single and double
excitation and ionization of heliumlike atom; the multiply ionization of neon
and argon atoms; the probability and cross section of K-vacancy production in
the relativistic collision. The simple analytic formulae
for the cross sections of inelastic collisions and the recurrence relations
between the ionization cross sections of different multiplicities are also
obtained. Comparison of our results with the experimental data and the results
of other calculations are given.Comment: 25 pages, latex, 7 figures avialable upon request,submitted to PR
Quantum Drag Forces on a Sphere Moving Through a Rarefied Gas
As an application of quantum fluid mechanics, we consider the drag force
exerted on a sphere by an ultra-dilute gas. Quantum mechanical diffraction
scattering theory enters in that regime wherein the mean free path of a
molecule in the gas is large compared with the sphere radius. The drag force is
computed in a model specified by the ``sticking fraction'' of events in which a
gaseous molecule is adsorbed by the spherical surface. Classical inelastic
scattering theory is shown to be inadequate for physically reasonable sticking
fraction values. The quantum mechanical scattering drag force is exhibited
theoretically and compared with experimental data.Comment: 5 pages no figure
Neutron Resonance Spectroscopy of 106Pd, and 108Pd from 20–2000 eV
Parity nonconserving asymmetries have been measured in p-wave resonances of 106Pd and 108Pd. The data analysis requires knowledge of the neutron resonance parameters. Transmission and capture γ-ray yields were measured for En=20–2000 eV with the time-of-flight method at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE). A total of 28 resonances in 106Pd and 32 resonances in 108Pd were studied. The resonance parameters for 106Pd are new for all except one resonance. In 108Pd six new resonances were observed and the precision improved for many of the resonance parameters. A Bayesian analysis was used to assign orbital angular momentum for the resonances studied
Parity Nonconservation in 106Pd and 108Pd Neutron Resonances
Parity nonconservation (PNC) has been studied in the neutron p-wave resonances of 106Pd and 108Pd in the energy range of 20 to 2000 eV. Longitudinal asymmetries in p-wave capture cross sections are measured using longitudinally polarized neutrons incident on ∼20-g metal-powder targets at LANSCE. A CsI γ-ray detector array measures capture cross section asymmetries as a function of neutron energy which is determined by the neutron time-of-flight method. A total of 21 p-wave resonances in 106Pd and 21 p-wave resonances in 108Pd were studied. One statistically significant PNC effect was observed in106Pd, and no effects were observed in 108Pd. For 106Pd a weak spreading width of Γw=34-28+47×10-7 eV was obtained. For 108Pd an upper limit on the weak spreading width of Γw\u3c12×10-7 eV was determined at the 68% confidence level
Ionization of hydrogen and hydrogenic ions by antiprotons
Presented here is a description of the ionization of hydrogen and hydrogenic
ions by antiproton-impact, based on very large scale numerical solutions of the
time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation in three spatial dimensions and on
analysis of the topology of the electronic eigenenergy surfaces in the plane of
complex internuclear distance. Comparison is made with other theories and very
recent measurements.Comment: RevTex document, 11 pages, 4 Postscript figures are available from
the authors, in press Phys. Rev. Let
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