Heterogeneity of antiferroelectric phase of mixed radp crystals: Epr investigation

Detailed study of antiferroelectric (AFE) branch of mixed crystals Rb,, (NH,),H,PO, phase diagram x > 0.74 has been carried out by means of TI+ EPR probe. The coexistence of two structurally nonequivalent centers of thallium in low-temperature AFE phase was discovered. The analysis of EPR spectra parameters indicate that one of both centers exhibits some glass-like behaviour. resembling the EPR of TI2+ in proton glass x < 0.74. © 1995, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved

Hydration products of portland cement modified with a complex admixture

© 2015 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd. This paper examines the effect of a polycarboxylate ether-based complex admixture on the phase composition and degree of hydration of cement stone. We demonstrate that the degree of hydration of cement and the specific surface area of forming hydrates depend on the cement stone hardening conditions

Formation of hydrocarbon reservoirs in the deep Earth's crust

Formation of reservoirs in crystalline rocks is associated with the development of rifts, with the periodic axial plunge of the rift floor during the extension of the Earth's crust, and with the elevation of consolidated basement masses during a compression phase. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

A New Approach to Systematic Uncertainties and Self-Consistency in Helium Abundance Determinations

Tests of big bang nucleosynthesis and early universe cosmology require precision measurements for helium abundance determinations. However, efforts to determine the primordial helium abundance via observations of metal poor H II regions have been limited by significant uncertainties. This work builds upon previous work by providing an updated and extended program in evaluating these uncertainties. Procedural consistency is achieved by integrating the hydrogen based reddening correction with the helium based abundance calculation, i.e., all physical parameters are solved for simultaneously. We include new atomic data for helium recombination and collisional emission based upon recent work by Porter et al. and wavelength dependent corrections to underlying absorption are investigated. The set of physical parameters has been expanded here to include the effects of neutral hydrogen collisional emission. Because of a degeneracy between the solutions for density and temperature, the precision of the helium abundance determinations is limited. Also, at lower temperatures (T \lesssim 13,000 K) the neutral hydrogen fraction is poorly constrained resulting in a larger uncertainty in the helium abundances. Thus the derived errors on the helium abundances for individual objects are larger than those typical of previous studies. The updated emissivities and neutral hydrogen correction generally raise the abundance. From a regression to zero metallicity, we find Y_p as 0.2561 \pm 0.0108, in broad agreement with the WMAP result. Tests with synthetic data show a potential for distinct improvement, via removal of underlying absorption, using higher resolution spectra. A small bias in the abundance determination can be reduced significantly and the calculated helium abundance error can be reduced by \sim 25%.Comment: 51 pages, 13 figure