Acid generation upon thermal concentration of natural water: the critical water content and the effects of ionic composition.

Thermal evaporation of a variety of simulated pore waters from the region of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, produced acidic liquids and gases during the final stages of evaporation. Several simulated pore waters were prepared and then thermally distilled in order to collect and analyze fractions of the evolved vapor. In some cases, distillates collected towards the end of the distillation were highly acidic; in other cases the pH of the distillate remained comparatively unchanged during the course of the distillation.

Composition and particle size of superparamagnetic corrosion products in tap water.

Chemical analyses, magnetization, Mössbauer spectrum, and x-ray diffraction measurements were made on solids removed from tap water by means of membrane filters. The taps from which this water was obtained had previously been unused for prolonged periods of time. When these taps were reactivated and water was first drawn, it was observed that the quantity of coarse solids in the water gradually decreased with flow, while at the same time the quantity of fine solids gradually increased.

Structural Distortions in Six-Coordinate Adducts of Niobium(V) and Tantalum(V).

The mixed chloro-aryloxide compounds [M(OC(6)H(3)Pr(i)(2)-2,6)(2)Cl(3)](2) (M = Nb (1a), Ta (1b); both structurally characterized) and [M(OC(6)H(3)Pr(i)(2)-2,6)(3)Cl(2)] (M = Nb (2a), Ta (2b)) react with pyridine (py) and PMe(2)Ph to produce a series of adducts cis-mer-[MCl(3)(OC(6)H(3)Pr(i)(2)-2,6)(2)(L)] (M, L: Nb, py (3a); Ta, py (3b); Nb, PMe(2)Ph (4a); Ta, PMe(2)Ph (4b)) and trans-mer-[MCl(2)(OC(6)H(3)Pr(i)(2)-2,6)(3)(L)] (M, L: Nb, py (5); Nb, PMe(2)Ph (6a); Ta, PMe(2)Ph (6b)). The assigned geometric arrangement of ligands is based upon (1)H NMR studies and single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses of 3a, 3b, 4, 6a, and 6b. The salt complex [HPMe(2)Ph](+)[mer-NbCl(3)(OC(6)H(3)Pr(i)(2)-2,6)(3)](-) (7) has also been isolated and structurally characterized.