We address the investigation of the solvation properties of the minimal orientational model for water originally proposed by [Bell and Lavis, J. Phys. A 3, 568 (1970)]. The model presents two liquid phases separated by a critical line. The difference between the two phases is the presence of structure in the liquid of lower density, described through the orientational order of particles. We hav...

Spectral line narrowing (by a factor of 8) and stabilization of the emission wavelength (by a factor of 30) of multimode high-power laser diodes and arrays is demonstrated by use of volume Bragg gratings fabricated in high-stability inorganic photorefractive glasses. Applications include stabilization of pump laser diodes and arrays for solid-state lasers and metal-vapor lasers, spin hyperpolar...

Agriculture is a source for three primary greenhouse gases (GHGs): CO(2), CH(4), and N(2)O. It can also be a sink for CO(2) through C sequestration into biomass products and soil organic matter. We summarized the literature on GHG emissions and C sequestration, providing a perspective on how agriculture can reduce its GHG burden and how it can help to mitigate GHG emissions through conservation...

Introduction: More than 80 fossil meteorites have been found in the ~4 m quarry layer of midOrdovician marine limestone in southern Sweden (Thorsberg quarry) [1, 2]. The analysis of noble gas data [2] in chromite grains from these meteorites has revealed a clear negative correlation between He, Ne concentrations and mass of the samples [3]. Similar correlation has been found also for cosmicray ...

The noble gases are the most inert group of the periodic table, but their reactivity increases with pressure. Diamond-anvil-cell experiments and ab initio modelling have been used to investigate a possible direct reaction between xenon and oxygen at high pressures. We have now synthesized two oxides below 100 GPa (Xe2O5 under oxygen-rich conditions, and Xe3O2 under oxygen-poor conditions), whic...

An experimental study of Xe and Kr adsorption in metal-organic frameworks CPO-27-Ni, CPO-27-Mg, and ZIF-8 was carried out. In situ synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction experiments allowed precise determination of the adsorption sites and sequence of their filling with increasing of gas pressure at different temperatures. Structural investigations were used for interpretation of gas adsorption m...

The author presents his development of the techniques for the measurement of total and regional cerebral blood flow, based on the principles that describe the exchange of inert diffusible tracers between blood and tissue. From the recognition that the uptake and distribution of such tracers would be independent of metabolism and neural function, but dependent instead on blood flow and purely ph...

We present a brief account of the most salient properties of vortices in dilute atomic Fermi superfluids near a Feshbach resonance.

Introduction: NWA 2737 is the second chassignite, whose brown colored appearance different from Chassigny would be due to shock metamorphism. Noble gas compositions so far reported for the NWA 2737 [1, 2] are largely different from those of Chassigny. High Xe/Xe up to ~2 observed in NWA 2737 might be shock-implanted Martian atmospheric Xe. Common ejection event at ∼11 Myr was suggested for NWA ...

Surface and Subsurface Geochemical Monitoring of an EOR-CO2 Field: Buracica, Brazil — This paper presents a surface and subsurface geochemical survey of the Buracica EOR-CO2 field onshore Brazil. We adopted a methodology coupling the stable isotopes of carbon with noble gases to investigate the adequacy of geochemical monitoring to track deep fluid leakage at the surface. Three campaigns of CO2...