Neodymium and Dysprosium Bromotetraoxomolybdates

The interaction of neodymium and dysprosium oxobromides with molybdenum(VI) oxide was studied by the DTA, X-ray diffraction, and crystal-optical techniques. The compounds of a new type LnMoO4Br with Ln = Nd of Dy were synthesized. The individuality of the synthesized compounds was confirmed. The crystal lattice parameters were calculated, and the thermal stability of the bromotetraoxomolybdates was studied

Oil Pollution in the Southeastern Baltic Sea in 2009-2011

From January 2009 to April 2012 a satellite survey of the central and southeastern parts of the Baltic Sea was carried out by the Space Radar Laboratory at the Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The main attention was focused on the detection of oil pollution as well as biogenic and anthropogenic surfactant films. The basic data are high resolution radar images obtained by advanced synthetic aperture radar (ASAR) on board of the Envisat satellite of the European Space Agency. Remotely sensed data in visual and infrared (IR) bands acquired by sensors MERIS Envisat, MODIS-Terra and -Aqua, and AVHRR NOAA nearly simultaneously with the ASAR images, were processed and analysed in order to facilitate the discrimination between different types of surface pollutants, to understand a comprehensive features of meteorological and hydrodynamic processes in the sea area of investigation, and to reveal factors determining pollutants spread and drift. The regions of the most intense oil pollution are outlined

Neodymium and Dysprosium Bromotetraoxomolybdates

The interaction of neodymium and dysprosium oxobromides with molybdenum(VI) oxide was studied by the DTA, X-ray diffraction, and crystal-optical techniques. The compounds of a new type LnMoO4Br with Ln = Nd of Dy were synthesized. The individuality of the synthesized compounds was confirmed. The crystal lattice parameters were calculated, and the thermal stability of the bromotetraoxomolybdates was studied