Assessment of the Influence of the Geometrical Shape of the Damper on the Efficiency of an Ultrasonic Operation Piezoelectric Transducer.

The results of a study on the geometric shape of the damper on the efficiency of the ultrasonic piezoelectric transducer are presented. In particular, a damper in the form of a truncated cone is considered, the generatrix of which has an inclination angle α relative to the diameter of the piezoceramic plate. The shape of the damper in the form of a truncated cone is chosen based on the a priori assumption that this helps to increase the path of the wave in the damper material due to numerous reflections in it.

Vanadox--a new reagent for the photometric determination of vanadium.

A new reagent, 2,2-dicarboxydiphenylamine, vanadox, is proposed for the photometric determination of vanadium in steels, high temperature alloys and ferrotitanium ores. In strongly acidic medium the reagent is selective for vanadium(V) and only eerium(IV) interferes.