Tomb, excavated artifact, Heart-shaped pendant

Henan. Luoyang. Train factory; 2 23/64 in.x 3 5/32 in.x 1/8 in.; jade

Tomb, excavated artifact, Heart-shaped pendant, side a

Henan. Luoyang. Train factory; 2 1/4 in.x 2 3/4 in.; jade

Tomb, excavated artifact, Heart-shaped pendant, side b

Henan. Luoyang. Train factory; 2 1/4 in.x 2 3/4 in.; jade

The Portland Vase Disk

Glass, Roman; D: 4 51/64 in.; carved and blown, cameo glass

Incense Burner with animal-shaped handles

3 45/64 in.x 5 43/64 in.; cloisonné, gilt copper alloy

Vase with floral decoration

H: 5 33/64 in.; cloisonné, gilt copper alloy

Incense Burner with dragon-shaped handles

H: 3 17/64 in.; cloisonné, gilt copper alloy

Blue and white ware hexagonal Vase

H: 1 ft. 2 11/16 in.; porcelain with underglaze blue floral decoration

Description d'une anse de vase en bronze, ornée de bas-reliefs, découverte en 1811 dans les ruines de Nasium;

In the title of the front. the handle is called Anse de Praeféricule.

Observations sur le vase qu'on conservait à Gênes sous le nom de Sacro Catino et sur la note publiée sur ce vase par M. Millin /

Object now housed in S. Lorenzo, the cathedral of Genoa.

Ladies ̕vase: or, Polite manual for young ladies. Original and selected.

Mode of access: Internet.

A sculptured vase from Guatemala.

Mode of access: Internet.

Effects of vase solution pH and abscisic acid on the longevity of cut 'Baccara' roses

Abscisic acid (ABA) supplied in the vase solution can induce stomatal closure in the leaves of cut flowers, including roses (Rosa hybrida L.). This effect may be beneficial in reducing water deficit stress. Extracellular pH can affect active ABA concentrations in the apoplast of guard cells, with sap alkalisation enhancing the physiological activity of ABA. Accordingly, it was hypothesized that vase solution pH may affect ABA-mediated stomatal closure of cut roses. Two experiments were conducted to study the interaction of vase solution pH and ABA. In the first, cut 'Baccara' roses were held in vase solutions with +/- 10(-5) M ABA at pH 6, pH 7 and pH 8. In the second experiment, roses were held with +/- 10(-5) M ABA at pH 6 and pH 8 in the presence and absence of 1 mg l(-1) AgNO3 as a bactericide. Supply of ABA increased vase life and reduced vase solution usage of flowers held in low pH 6 solutions, indicating induction of stomatal closure. Conversely, ABA supplied at pH 8 was associated with reduced vase life. This negative result was associated with enhanced development of vase solution microbes at high pH, which overrode any potential pH-mediated ABA efficacy effects.

Adsorption of quadrupolar, diatomic nitrogen onto graphitized thermal carbon black and in slit-shaped carbon pores. Effects of surface mediation

In this paper, we study the effect of solid surface mediation on the intermolecular potential energy of nitrogen, and its impact on the adsorption of nitrogen on a graphitized carbon black surface and in carbon slit-shaped pores. This effect arises from the lower effective interaction potential energy between two particles close to the surface compared to the potential energy of the same two particles when they are far away from the surface. A simple equation is proposed to calculate the reduction factor and this is used in the Grand Canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulation of nitrogen adsorption on graphitized thermal carbon black. With this modification, the GCMC simulation results agree extremely well with the experimental data over a wide range of pressure; the simulation results with the original potential energy (i.e. no surface mediation) give rise to a shoulder in the neighbourhood of monolayer coverage and a significant over-prediction of the second and higher layer coverages. The influence of this surface mediation on the dependence of the pore-filling pressure on the pore width is also studied. It is shown that such surface mediation has a significant effect on the pore-filling pressure. This implies that the use of the local isotherms obtained from the potential model without surface mediation could give rise to a serious error in the determination of the pore-size distribution.

Modeling dimensional shrinkage of shaped foods in fluidized bed drying

Three particular geometrical shapes of parallelepiped, cylinder and sphere were selected from cut beans (length : diameter = 1: 1, 2:1, 3: 1), potatoes (aspect ratio = 1:1, 2:1, 3:1) and peas, respectively. The dimensional shrinkage behavior was studied in a batch fluidized bed at three drying temperatures of 30, 40 and 50C. Relative humidity of hot air was kept at 15%. Dimensional shrinkage was plotted using a nondimensional moisture ratio and the shrinkage behavior of the selected foods was modeled with simple mathematical models.