• Title/Summary/Keyword: Natural $^{15}N$

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$\delta^{15}$N Analysis for Interpretation of Nitrogen pollution Source and Contribution in Agricultural Watersheds (농촌유역의 질소 오염원과 기여도 해석을 위한 $\delta^{15}$N 분석(지역환경 \circled1))

  • 홍영진;권순국
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.513-518
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    • 2000
  • It has been acknowledged that fertilizer, natural soil nitrogen and animal waste, municipal waste have different mass ratio of nitrogen which is presented as a symbol of $\delta^{15}$N. and that the values of $\delta^{15}$N for fertilizer and natural soil nitrogen and animal waste are placed less than +5$\textperthousand$ and higher than +10$\textperthousand$, respectively. thus, Nitrogen pollution sources and contribution can be interpreted in watershed through $\delta^{15}$N analysis and then, analysis is performed with Kjeldhl-Dumas method. In this study, The values of $\delta^{15}$N are between +1.46$\textperthousand$ and +8.97$\textperthousand$, and the nitrate concentration is placed less than 3.31mg/L and higher than 0.19mg/L, respectively. Thus, this watershed is noncontamination area at the present time. But as a result of $\delta^{15}$N, contribution of natural soil nitrogen be discovered in this watershed, presently.

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Identifying N sources that affect N uptake and assimilation in Vanda hybrid using 15N tracers

  • Panjama, Kanokwan;Ohyama, Takuji;Ohtake, Norikuni;Sato, Takashi;Potapohn, Nuttha;Sueyoshi, Kuni;Ruamrungsri, Soraya
    • Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology : HEB
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    • v.59 no.6
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    • pp.805-813
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    • 2018
  • Vanda is an aerial tropical orchid native to Thailand and nitrogen (N) fertilizer is mainly used to promote its growth and quality. However, little is known about the characteristics of N absorption and assimilation in Vanda. The objective of this study was to determine the appropriate source of N for Vanda cultivation. In this experiment, shoots and roots of Vanda 'Ratchaburi Fuchs-Katsura' were sprayed weekly with 100 ml of $^{15}N$ tracer solution (1) 10 mM of $^{15}NO_3{^-}$, (2) 5 mM of $^{15}NO_3{^-}$ plus 5 mM of $NH_4{^+}$, (3) 5 mM of $NO_3{^-}$ plus 5 mM of $^{15}NH_4{^+}$ and (4) 10 mM of $^{15}NH_4{^+}$. The results indicated that plants fed with a combined N fertilizer gave the highest of $^{15}N$ use efficiency ( $^{15}NUE$) of about 21.8%, 30 days after the first feeding (DAF), compared with those fed sole sources of $^{15}NO_3{^-}$ (21.0%) and $^{15}NH_4{^+}$ (16.6%). However, a sole nitrate fertilizer or combination fertilizer did not significantly affect the total N and labelled N content. Alanine was a major amino acid found in leaves and roots at 7 DAF, whereas glutamine was mainly found in stems. At 30 DAF, tyrosine and alanine became major components in the leaves, and glutamine decreased in stems when plants were fed with a single $^{15}NH_4{^+}$ source.

A Study on the Possibility of Application as a Natural Extinguishing System for $N_2$ Generator (산업용 질소발생기에 대한 청정소화설비로의 적용가능성에 관한 연구)

  • Suh, Byung-Taek;Jang, Young-Keun
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.139-144
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    • 2010
  • An experimental study has been carried out to investigate the possibilities of an industrial $N_2$ generator that it replace Halon series as a natural extinguishing system. And this study comparison design standard of gas series extinguishing system with natural extinguishing system. We manufactured simple protected enclosure for analyzing fire-extinguishing performance of the $N_2$ generator. As a $N_2$ gas is exhausted on protected enclosure, a various of Oxygen concentration is measured to analyze fireextinguishing performance experimentally. The results, in case of $100m^3$ protected enclosure and $5m^3$/min $N_2$ flow rate, the Oxygen concentration is decreased below 15% within 3 minutes. And so, the $N_2$ generator make full use of an suffocating extinguishing system.

Application of NMR on the Study of Natural and Synthetic Diamonds (NMR을 이용한 천연 및 합성 다이아몬드의 특성 분석 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Rang;Shon, Shoo-Hack;Kim, Jong-Gun;Kim, Jeong-Jin;Jang, Yun-Deuk
    • Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.2 s.52
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    • pp.97-102
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    • 2007
  • NMR experiments with various pulse repetition delay time were carried out for the $^{15}N\;and\;^{13}C$ of a natural gem diamond and synthetic diamonds. The natural gem diamond had a weak $^{13}C$ peak at 34.1ppm when 30 second pulse repetition delay time was applied. Similar but more prominent $^{13}C$ peaks were observed at 34.2 ppm with 0.5 second pulse repetition delay time and at 34.7 ppm with 50 second pulse repetition delay time for the synthetic diamonds. Any meaningful $^{15}N$ peak was not observed for either natural or synthetic diamonds due to extremely low content of the $^{15}N$. Significant relationship was observed between relative spin-lattice relaxation times we estimated and the content of impurities. however, it was not possible to distinguish natural diamond from synthetic diamonds due to very similar characteristics of their $^{13}C$ NMR signals except relative spin-lattice relaxation times.

SLLN for Pairwise Independent Random Variables (쌍별독립인 확률변수에 대한 대수의 강법칙)

  • Sung, Soo-Hak
    • The Journal of Natural Sciences
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.15-17
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    • 1999
  • Let {f(n)} be an increasing sequence such that f(n)>0 for each n and f(n)$\rightarrow$$\infty$. Let {X$_n$,n$\geq1$} be a sequence of pairwise independent random variables. In this paper we give sufficient conditions on {X$_n$,n$\geq1$} such that $sum_{i=1}^n$(X$_i$-EX$_i$)/f(n) converges to zero almost surely.

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Electrocatalytic Reduction of Dioxygen at Glassy Carbon Electrodes with Irreversible Self-assembly of N-hexadecyl-N'-methyl Viologen

  • Lee, Chi-Woo;Jang, Jai-Man
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.15 no.7
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    • pp.563-567
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    • 1994
  • The electroreduction of dioxygen at glassy carbon electrodes with irreversible self-assembly of N-hexadecyl-N'-methyl viologen $(C_{16}VC_1)$ proceeds at potentials more positive than those where the reduction occurs at bare electrodes. The electrocatalyzed reduction takes place at potentials well ahead of those where the catalyst is reduced in the absence of dioxygen and the limiting currents observed at rotating disk electrodes did not deviate from the thoretical Levich line up to 6400 rpm, indicating that the electrocatalysis is extremely rapid. The rate constant for the heterogeneous reaction between $C_{16}V^+C_1$ immobilized on the electrode surface and $O_2$ in solution was estimated to be ca. $10^8\;M^{-1}s^{-1}$. The half-wave potential of dioxygen reduction was independent of solution pH.