1. Researches dealing with insect eggs are limited to hatchability, hatching conditions, elemental analysis and egg viability. Little is known about the influence of different elements on the insect eggs. 2. In the present study, the elemental analysis for two honey bee races was studied using energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. 3. Carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, magnesium, phosphorus, sulfur, calc...

We have developed an automated data analysis method for atmospheric particles using scanning transmission X-ray microscopy coupled with near edge X-ray fine structure spectroscopy (STXM/NEXAFS). This method is applied to complex internally mixed submicrometer particles containing organic and inorganic material. Several algorithms were developed to exploit NEXAFS spectral features in the energy ...

Various cultures (previously described), which oxidize thiosulfate in mineral media have been studied in an attempt to determine the products of oxidation. The transformation of sodium thiosulfate by Cultures B, T, and K yields sodium tetrathionate and sodium hydroxide; secondary chemical reactions result in the accumulation of some tri- and pentathionates, sulfate, and elemental sulfur. As a r...

Ideal nanowire interconnects for nanoelectronics will be refractory, covalently bonded, and highly conductive, irrespective of crystallographic orientation. Theoretical studies suggest that boron nanotubes should be stable and exhibit higher electrical conductivities than those of carbon nanotubes. We describe CVD growth of elemental boron nanowires, which are found to be dense nanowhiskers rat...

We use innovative experimental approaches to measure the extent of biogeochemical interaction driven by the input of terrestrial organic carbon to the coastal oceans. The evolution of organic carbon from continents to oceans is not well understood. Remineralization of this carbon plays an unknown but apparently important role in stimulating productivity. This process and associated phenomena al...

Recently, sophisticated theoretical computational studies have proposed several new crystal structures of carbon (e.g., bct-C(4), H-, M-, R-, S-, W-, and Z-carbon). However, until now, there lacked experimental evidence to verify the predicted high-pressure structures for cold-compressed elemental carbon at least up to 50 GPa. Here we present direct experimental evidence that this enigmatic hig...

Ellipsometry was used to monitor the In situ growth of a fllm on a glassy carbon electrode, whlch was electrochemlcally anodized at 1.8 V In 0.1 M H,SO,. The layer grew contlnuously In an uninhlblted fashion wlth constant optical constants to a thlckness of at least 925 nm. I t was nearly transparent at wavelengths of 545 and 632.8 nm. X-ray and elemental analysls of bulk quantltles of the phas...

We present measurements of the wavelength dependence of the aerosol absorption coefficient taken during the TARFOX experiment over the Northern Atlantic. The data show an approximate λ variation between 0.40 μm and 1.0 μm. We explore the theoretical basis of the wavelength variation of the absorption of solar radiation by elemental carbon (or black carbon, BC). For a wavelength independent refr...