Venus lower atmospheric composition: analysis by gas chromatography

The first gas chromatographic analysis of the lower atmosphere of Venus is reported. Three atmospheric samples were analyzed. The third of these samples showed carbon dioxide (96.4 percent), molecular nitrogen (3.41 percent), water vapor (0.135 percent), molecular oxygen [69.3 parts per million (ppm)], argon (18.6 ppm), neon (4.31 ppm), and sulfuir dioxide (186 ppm). The amounts of water vapor and sulfur dioxide detected are roughly compatible with the requirements of greenhouse models of the high surface temperature of Venus. The large positive gradient of sulfur dioxide, molecular oxygen, and water vapor from the clould tops to their bottoms, as implied by Earth-based observations and these resuilts, gives added support for the presence of major quantities of aqueous sulfuric acid in the clouds. A comparison of the inventory of inert gases found in the atmospheres of Venus, Earth, and Mars suggests that these components are due to outgassing from the planetary interiors.     

Vertical distribution of water in the atmosphere of venus: a simple thermochemical explanation

Several lines of evidence concerning the vertical abundance profile of water in the atmosphere of Venus lead to strikingly unusual distributions (the water vapor abundance decreases sharply in the immediately vicinity of the surface) or to serious conflicts in the profiles (different infrared bands suggest water abundances that are discrepant by a factor of 2.5 to 10). These data sets can be reconciled if (i) water molecules associate with carbon dioxide and sulfur trioxide to make gaseous carbonic acid and sulfuric acid in the lower atmosphere, and (ii) the discrepant 0.94-micrometer water measurements are due to gaseous sulfuric acid, requiring it to be a somewhat stronger absorber than water vapor inthis wavelength region. A mean total water abundance of 50 +/- 20 parts per million and a near-surface free water vapor abundance of 10 +/- 4 parts per million are derived.     

Evidence for Photochemical Formation of H2O2 and Oxidation of SO2 in Authentic Fog Water

When samples of rain and fog water were exposed to ultraviolet and visible light, reactive transients such as hydrogen peroxide were formed and dissolved organic matter and sulfur dioxide were depleted. These results, in conjunction with those from previous studies, imply that dissolved organic compounds and transition metals such as iron ions are involved in the photochemical formation of hydrogen peroxide and other photooxidants in atmospheric waters.     

不同处理方法对菊花中二氧化硫含量的影响

以菊花为研究对象,研究了热水浸泡、过氧化氢溶液浸泡及超声波处理的脱硫效果,结果显示,3种处理方式都可以有效地降低菊花中二氧化硫残留量,超声波处理效果最佳。正交试验优选出的脱硫方法是将菊花浸泡于30℃0.05%过氧化氢溶液中,超声处理6h。     

Air pollution: sensitive detection of ten pollutant gases by carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide lasers

Detection sensitivities of a few parts per billion for ten gaseous pollutants have been evaluated by measuring the strength of the absorption of infrared radiation from carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide lasers. Ethylene concentrations as small as 5 parts per billion have been detected in air. The measured absorption strengths indicate that in mixtures of pollutants, such as nitrogen dioxide and water vapor, the sensitivity is reduced by overlapping absorption bands. However, calculations indicate that it should be possible to detect nitrogen dioxide concentrations of 0.01 part per million in the presence of water vapor concentrations of 105 parts per million.     

Photochemical Production of Formaldehyde in Earth's Primitive Atmosphere

Formaldehyde could have been produced by photochemical reactions in Earth's primitive atmosphere, at a time when it consisted mainly of molecular nitrogen, water vapor, carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of molecular hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Removal of formaldehyde from the atmosphere by precipitation can provide a source of organic carbon to the oceans at the rate of 10(11) moles per year. Subsequent reactions of formaldehyde in primeval aquatic environments would have implications for the abiotic synthesis of complex organic molecules and the origin of life.     

葡萄酒中与风味相关4类含硫化合物的研究进展

含硫化合物如谷胱甘肽、硫醇、硫化氢、二氧化硫等都是葡萄酒中重要的风味物质,这4类含硫化合物的含量和形态影响着葡萄酒的风味,且两者都与这4类含硫化合物的来源、检测方法及葡萄酒生产工艺有直接或间接的关系,但针对以上方面的结论仍不统一。基于此,本文整理了这4类含硫化合物在葡萄酒中的含量和存在形态、来源、检测方法、贮藏期间的变化及控制方法这5个方面的研究进展。就含量和存在形态而言,谷胱甘肽主要以还原型谷胱甘肽（GSH）的形式存在,含量不高于70 mg?L ^-1;硫醇以游离态存在,或与金属离子结合,硫醇含量与具体种类相关,数量级从ng?L ^-1到μg?L ^-1不等;硫化氢主要以结合态存在,易与金属离子结合,总含量不高于30 μg?L ^-1;二氧化硫常以气体形式或亚硫酸氢根形式存在,或与含羰基化合物结合,总含量为64.8—166.5 mg?L ^-1。在来源方面,这4类含硫化合物都与发酵期间酿酒酵母的代谢活动有关。谷胱甘肽主要来源于未发酵葡萄汁原料,少部分来源于氨基酸的发酵代谢;硫醇来源于含硫氨基酸、谷胱甘肽的发酵代谢及以硫化氢为底物的化学反应;硫化氢主要源于含硫氨基酸、硫酸盐和亚硫酸盐的发酵代谢;二氧化硫主要来源于外源添加剂,也有少部分源自硫酸盐的发酵代谢。检测这4类含硫化合物时,常采用化学检测方法或光谱法,此类方法检测快速但误差较大;色谱法精确度高,但是样品预处理复杂,仪器昂贵。在贮藏期间葡萄酒中的铁、铜等过渡金属离子和氧气引起的Fenton反应和氧化反应显著影响部分硫醇和硫化氢的含量。最后针对部分含硫化合物带来的异味,可以通过优化原料品质、筛选酿酒酵母菌株、改进二氧化硫添加工艺、添加金属盐等方法降低。在今后的研究中,可从优化检测方法、探究发酵和贮藏陈酿期间含硫化合物变化机理、改进葡萄酒生产环节等方面展开工作。     

蜜饯制品中SO_2残留检测方法的优化

[目的]对蜜饯制品中SO2残留的检测方法进行优化。[方法]采用BUCHI全自动凯氏定氮仪替代全玻璃蒸馏装置进行蒸馏蜜饯制品中的SO2,通过正交试验优化蒸馏过程,并按国标GB/T5009.34-2003滴定法测定SO2含量。[结果]蒸馏最佳条件为时间9 min,加水体积50 ml,取样量5 g;相对标准偏差(RSD)在0.7%～1.4%,回收率在96.8%～98.8%。[结论]该方法反应速度快,精密度高,适用于蜜饯制品中SO2残留量的测定。     

Venus: chemical weathering of igneous rocks and buffering of atmospheric composition

Data from the Pioneer Venus radar mapper, combined with measurements of wind velocity and atmospheric composition, suggest that surface erosion on Venus varies with altitude. Calcium- and magnesium-rich weathering products are produced at high altitudes by gas-solid reactions with igneous minerals, then removed into the hotter lowlands by surface winds. These fine-grained weathering products may then rereact with the lower atmosphere and buffer the composition of the observed gases carbon dioxide, water vapor, sulfur dioxide, and hydrogen fluoride in some regions of the surface. This process is a plausible mechanism for the establishment in the lowlands of a calcium-rich mineral assemblage, which had previously been found necessary for the buffering of these species.     

Venus: composition and structure of the visible clouds

It is proposed that the visible cloud deck on Venus is composed of droplets of sulfuric acid. These are formed by the very rapid photooxidation of carbonyl sulfide in the upper atmosphere. The clouds are best described as an extensive haze since the predicted particulate scale height probably exceeds the gas scale height within the layer. The predicted mixing ratio for water is 10(-6) (lower limit), and for both carbonyl sulfide and sulfur dioxide it is 10(-7) (upper limit); these are in good agreement with observations. Gaps in the layer are not possible unless the planetary scale dynamics produce cloud turnover times of less than a few days. Under these conditions the water mixing ratio could approach 10(-4) and the formation of a thin hydrochloric acid haze at high altitude above the main cloud is possible.     

Venus: implications from microwave spectroscopy of the atmospheric content of water vapor

From comparison of theoretical and observed microwave brightness temperatures of Venus at 1.35 centimeters, the center of a water-vapor line, we obtain an upper limit of 0.8 percent for the water-vapor mixing ratio in the lower atmosphere. This limit is consistent with the amount of water vapor detected by Venera 4, the existence of aqueous ice clouds, and a greenhouse effect caused by water vapor and carbon dioxide. The computed spectra suggest that a sensitive procedure for detection of water vapor is examination of the wavelength region between I and 1.4 centimeters.     

Gas emissions and the eruptions of mount st. Helens through 1982

The monitoring of gas emissions from Mount St. Helens includes daily airborne measurements of sulfur dioxide in the volcanic plume and monthly sampling of gases from crater fumaroles. The composition of the fumarolic gases has changed slightly since 1980: the water content increased from 90 to 98 percent, and the carbon dioxide concentrations decreased from about 10 to 1 percent. The emission rates of sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide were at their peak during July and August 1980, decreased rapidly in late 1980, and have remained low and decreased slightly through 1981 and 1982. These patterns suggest steady outgassing of a single batch of magma (with a volume of not less than 0.3 cubic kilometer) to which no significant new magma has been added since mid-1980. The gas data were useful in predicting eruptions in August 1980 and June 1981.     

Volatiles from the 1994 Eruptions of Rabaul: Understanding Large Caldera Systems

The 1994 eruption of Rabaul, in Papua New Guinea, involved a small plinian eruption at Vulcan and a vulcanian eruption on the opposite side of the caldera at Tavurvur. Vulcan's ash leachates indicate seawater interaction that is consistent with earlier observations of low sulfur dioxide emissions and the presence of ice crystals in the initial plinian eruption cloud. In contrast, Tavurvur ash leachates indicate no seawater interaction, and later sulfur dioxide emissions remained high despite low-level eruptive activity. Silicic melt inclusions indicate that the andesitic melt contained about 2 weight percent water and negligible carbon dioxide. Mafic melt inclusions in Tavurvur ash have water and carbon dioxide contents that vary systematically over the course of the eruption. The mafic melt inclusions suggest that a mafic dike intruded from below the silicic chamber and provide further evidence that mafic intrusions drive caldera unrest.     

Fast ion bombardment of ices and its astrophysical implications

Ices such as water, carbon dioxide, and methane are now known to be pervasive constituents of the solar system and probably of the interstellar medium as well. Many of these ices and ice-covered surfaces are exposed to bombardment by the energetic ions of space. Laboratory experiments have been carried out to study the effects of such bombardment. Surprisingly efficient erosion of ice layers is associated with electronic excitation of the ices by the ions. These results are a challenge to an understanding of the physical processes involved and have implications for a number of astrophysical problems of current interest.     

尿素配合物微量元素肥料的合成

用铁、锰、铜、锌的硝酸盐分别与尿素反应 ,合成了四种固体配合物。它们均易溶于水。根据物质结构理论 ,这些金属离子与尿素中的氮原子发生了配位 ,使金属更易被植物吸收 ,使氮缓释。因而合成的此类配合物不仅是优良的微量元素肥料 ,而且也是一种长效的氮肥。     

宁波市酱腌菜中二氧化硫残留量的调查研究

[目的]检测了宁波市酱腌菜中二氧化硫的残留情况,为企业生产和食品安全监管部门提供基础数据。[方法]采用GB/T 5009.34-2003蒸馏法,对送检的酱腌菜样品进行了二氧化硫残留量检测。[结果]168份样品中符合国家卫生标准的70份,超标98份,不合格率为58.3%,二氧化硫残留量超标严重,尤其是散装样品。[结论]相关部门应重视酱腌菜的食用安全,采取有效措施,减少二氧化硫残留。     

Sulfates as pollution particulates: catalytic formation on carbon (soot) particles

Experimental evidence (obtained by electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis) is presented which shows that finely divided carbon (soot) particles may play a major role in the catalytic oxidation of sulfur dioxide to sulfate in polluted atmospheres. The results obtained with sulfates produced in the laboratory by the oxidation of sulfur dioxide on graphite particles and combustion-produced soot particles are compared with the properties and behavior of ambient sulfates. The proposed sulfur dioxide oxidation mechanism is qualitatively consistent with field observations.     

SO_2胁迫对大叶黄杨和贴梗海棠膜脂过氧化及保护酶的影响

以贴梗海棠和大叶黄杨为试材,研究经SO2胁迫后,其生理生化的变化,结果表明,SO2处理使贴梗海棠和大叶黄杨O2-速率、MDA含量、细胞膜相对透性均增加,而且贴梗海棠的增加比率比大叶黄杨大,且随SO2质量浓度的增加,这3个指标的增加比率均呈升高趋势;经SO2处理后,贴梗海棠和大叶黄杨的SOD和POD活性均上升,抗性植物的升高比率大于敏感植物,随SO2质量浓度的增加,SOD和POD活性的增加比率升高,脱离熏气后,POD活性均经一个应激上升过程随后下降,且抗性植物大叶黄杨出现应激反应早于贴梗海棠;经SO2处理后,贴梗海棠和大叶黄杨的CAT活性下降,且随SO2质量浓度的增加下降比率增加。     

A mercury-catalyzed, high-yield system for the oxidation of methane to methanol

A homogeneous system for the selective, catalytic oxidation of methane to methanol via methyl bisulfate is reported. The net reaction catalyzed by mercuric ions, Hg(II), is the oxidation of methane by concentrated sulfuric acid to produce methyl bisulfate, water, and sulfur dioxide. The reaction is efficient. At a methane conversion of 50 percent, 85 percent selectivity to methyl bisulfate ( approximately 43 percent yield; the major side product is carbon dioxide) was achieved at a molar productivity of 10(-7) mole per cubic centimeter per second and Hg(II) turnover frequency of 10(-3) per second. Separate hydrolysis of methyl bisulfate and reoxidation of the sulfur dioxide with air provides a potentially practical scheme for the oxidation of methane to methanol with molecular oxygen. The primary steps of the Hg(II)-catalyzed reaction were individually examined and the essential elements of the mechanism were identified. The Hg(II) ion reacts with methane by an electrophilic displacement mechanism to produce an observable species, CH(3)HgOSO(3)H, 1. Under the reaction conditions, 1 readily decomposes to CH(3)OSO(3)H and the reduced mercurous species, Hg(2)(2+) The catalytic cycle is completed by the reoxidation of Hg(2)(2+) with H(2)SO(4) to regenerate Hg(II) and byproducts SO(2) and H(2)O. Thallium(III), palladium(II), and the cations of platinum and gold also oxidize methane to methyl bisulfate in sulfuric acid.     

Responses of hawaiian plants to volcanic sulfur dioxide: stomatal behavior and foliar injury

Hawaiian plants exposed to volcanic sulfur dioxide showed interspecific differences in leaf injury that are related to sulfur dioxide-induced changes in stomatal condutance. Species with leaves that did not close stomata developed either chlorosis or necrosis, whereas leaves of Metrosideros collina closed stomata and showed no visual symptoms of sulfur dioxide stress.