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    Sesame Oil

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    Henry Su December 12‚ 2001 Chapter Notes Chemistry 221 Chapter 13 Dr. Rahni Titrating Polyfunctional Acids and Bases 13A—Polyfunctional Acids -Phosphoric Acid is a typical polyfunctional acid H3PO4 + H2O ( H2PO4- + H3O+ Ka1 = [H3O+] [H2PO4-] = 7.11e-3 [H3PO4 ] H2PO4- + H2O ( HPO4-2 + H3O+ Ka2 = [H3O+] [H2PO4-2] = 6.32e-8 [H2PO4- ] HPO4-2 + H2O ( PO4-3 + H3O+ Ka3 = [H3O+] [PO4-3] = 4.5e-13 [HPO4-2]

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    Discussion Questions for Chapter Four of The Great Gatsby Where are the people when the Church bells are ringing on Sunday morning? What might this tell you about their morality? (65) They are still at Gatsby’s party. Fitzgerald does this to tell us their spiritual or community values are not nearly as important to them as having a good time and partying. What is the next piece of gossip we hear about Gatsby’s possible career? (65) He is a bootlegger. According to one of the young ladies

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    Gaussian Mixture Models∗ Douglas Reynolds MIT Lincoln Laboratory‚ 244 Wood St.‚ Lexington‚ MA 02140‚ USA dar@ll.mit.edu Synonyms GMM; Mixture model; Gaussian mixture density Definition A Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is a parametric probability density function represented as a weighted sum of Gaussian component densities. GMMs are commonly used as a parametric model of the probability distribution of continuous measurements or features in a biometric system‚ such as vocal-tract related

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    | Distillation is defined as: `Distillation is based on the fact that the vapor of a boiling mixture will be richer in the components that have lower boiling points.Therefore‚ when this vapor is cooled and condensed‚ the condensate will contain more volatile components. At the same time‚ the original mixture will contain more of the less volatile material. Distillation columns are designed to achieve this separation efficiently.Although many people have a fair idea what “distillation” means‚ the

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    In the movie Lorenzo’s Oil‚ you can observe the Scientific Method on many different occasions. Lorenzo was diagnosed with ALD‚ a disease that overloads the nerve system with C24 and C26. This disease only affects boys age 5-10. ALD eats away a layer around the nerves and does not allow Lorenzo to do his everyday activities. In the beginning there is no real treatment or cure for ALD but throughout the movie Lorenzo’s parents use the Scientific Method to find a treatment for ALD. The Scientific Method

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    Conclusion According to research it is proven that before Lorenzo’s oil was developed‚ many teenagers especially boys died at a young age due to the accumulation of saturated fatty acids in the blood. Lorenzo’s oil consisting of oleic and erucic acids which reduces the level of VLCSFAs in the blood helped improve the nervous system of many boys and made them live longer. As proven in the movie‚ Lorenzo’s oil worked effectively as it helped Lorenzo recover and improved his nervous system. According to a study

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    The 1973 Oil Crisis By Sarah Horton In October of 1973 Middle-eastern OPEC nations stopped exports to the US and other western nations. They meant to punish the western nations that supported Israel‚ their foe‚ in the Yom Kippur War‚ but they also realized the strong influence that they had on the world through oil. One of the many results of the embargo was higher oil prices all throughout the western world‚ particularly in America. The embargo forced

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    Hybrid oil palms bear fruit in western Kenya | FAO project improves incomes and diets‚ and may reduce imports of food oil | 24 November 2003‚ Rome — A cold-tolerant‚ high-yielding oil palm being promoted by FAO in western Kenya could be a boon to small-scale farmers and industrial producers alike‚ increasing incomes   improving diets‚ reducing imports of food oil and providing much-needed crop diversification for local sugar growers.Until the FAO project‚ which began in 1993‚ the only oil palm

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    Gulf Oil Corp.--Takeover Summary of Facts o George Keller of the Standard Oil Company of California (Socal) is trying to determine how much he wants to bid on Gulf Oil Corporation. Gulf will not consider bids below $70 per share even though their last closing price per share was valued at $43. o Between 1978 and 1982‚ Gulf doubled its exploration and development expenses to increase their oil reserves. In 1983‚ Gulf began reducing exploration expenditures considerably due to declining oil prices

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    Vanaspati, Edible Oil

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    Comparative Nutritional Quality of Palmstearin Liquid Oil Blends and Hydrogenated Fat (vanaspati) S. Ray and D.K. Bhattacharyya* Department of Chemical Technology‚ University Colleges of Science and Technology‚ Calcutta University‚ Calcutta - 700 009‚ India ABSTRACT: An attempt was made to use high-melting lowdigestible fat palmstearin as a vanaspati substitute by blending it with polyunsaturated fatty acid-rich liquid oils. This blending produced fat products of zero-trans fatty acid content

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