The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were considered virtuous, their "innate" delicacy or weakness became their dominant trait and the true focus of male admiration....
Rethinking the Dualism: Don DeLillo's White Noise and the Ecocritical Possibilities of the Nature/Culture Mix questions current applications of ecocriticism and offers that these applications are inadequate in dealing with the perceived nature/culture dualism. This thesis suggests that ecocritics need to stop thinking in dualistic terms, but instead must consider...
Equilibrium data for the sucrose-potassium chloride-water
system were taken for Dowex 50 W X 4 resin at 90° C. The sugar
concentration was varied from 0% to 60% by weight, and the salt content,
from 0% to 6% by weight. Because shrinkage of the resin due
to salt absorption was...
The thermal decomposition of tungsten hexacarbonyl was
investigated in an apparatus which allowed a solid sample of the material
to be sealed into a preheated batch reactor. Because the reaction occurs
with an increase in the number of moles of gas, it was possible to monitor
the progress of the...
A countercurrent, liquid-solids contactor was constructed,
operated and evaluated for a continuous ion-exchange operation.
The exchange of cupric and sodium ions between aqueous solutions
and Dowex 50W-X8 ion exchange resin was studied.
The countercurrent contactor consisted of two, three-inch
diameter columns with active sections ranging from one to four feet...
Laboratory experiments were conducted to study those factors which control the rate at which salts, such as magnesium chloride and sodium chloride, are removed from titanium sponge. The sponge was prepared by reducing titanium tetrachloride with either magnesium or sodium, and the resulting sponge salt mixtures were treated by vacuum...
An experimental technique employing a moveable Mach-Zender
interferometer for measuring composition profiles in the gas phase
of an Arnold diffusion cell has been developed. The experimental
apparatus included a specially built cell having a pair of glass sides to
allow continuous detection of the refractive index. With the integrated
apparatus,...
An adiabatic calorimeter operating over the range 5 to 300 K has
been automated. Instrumentation includes computer controlled data
acquisition, a low-thermal emf multiplexer for switching low-level dc
signals, and automatic analog shield controls. Temperature
measurements are made with platinum and germanium resistance
thermometers, and the thermometer resistances are determined...
The mass transfer of oxygen to water has been studied in a mixing pool with two plunging jets having a variable distance between
them. A closed system with recycle stream was used to reduce the
complexity of the mass transfer process in the system. An on-line
oxygen probe was used...