scholarly journals Influence of Solar Activity on Water Clusters. Annual Variations 2015-2019

Author(s):  
Igor Shevchenko

The variations of solar activity and distribution of solar energy due to the rotation of the Earth around its axis and around the Sun exert a strong influence on water clusters, as a result of which their chemical reactivity in hydrolytic processes can vary in a very wide range. This phenomenon is well manifested in the hydrolysis of the phosphoric acid esters. 5-Year regular investigations (2015-2019) of the hydrolysis of triethylphosphite in acetonitrile show that the rate of this reaction with all other conditions being equal displays diurnal and annual variations, and is also modulated by the 11-year cycles of solar activity.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Shevchenko

The variations of solar activity and distribution of solar energy due to the rotation of the Earth around its axis and around the Sun exert a strong influence on water clusters, as a result of which their chemical reactivity in hydrolytic processes can vary in a very wide range. This phenomenon is well manifested in the hydrolysis of the phosphoric acid esters. 5-Year regular investigations (2015-2019) of the hydrolysis of triethylphosphite in acetonitrile show that the rate of this reaction with all other conditions being equal displays diurnal and annual variations, and is also modulated by the 11-year cycles of solar activity.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Shevchenko

Abstract The variations of solar activity and distribution of solar energy due to the rotation of the Earth around its axis and around the Sun exert a strong influence on the self-organization of water molecules. As a result, the rate of hydrolytic processes with the participation of water clusters displays diurnal, very large annual variations, and is also modulated by the 11-year cycles of solar activity. It also depends on the geographic latitude and can be different at the same time in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. This phenomenon is well accounted for by the influence of muons on the self-organization of water molecules. Muons are constantly generated in the upper atmosphere by the solar wind. They reach the surface of the Earth and can penetrate to some depth underground. Buildings also absorb muons. For this reason, the rate of hydrolysis outside and inside buildings, as well as underground, can differ significantly from each other.


Author(s):  
Gideon Steinitz ◽  
Nelida Flore ◽  
Oksana Piatibratova

Radon (Rn-222; Rn) and Thoron (Rn-220; Tn) from the lowermost atmosphere in Arad, Romania, were investigated from 1993 to 2015. Daytime and night-time measurements exhibit (i) systematic differences; (ii) large annual variations; (iii) semi-annual and possibly ternary annual periodicities; (iv) amplitudes of the annual and semi-annual periodicities differ between daytime and night-time measurements. The day of year of the summer peak time (SPT) of the annual variation of composite Rn and Tn data depict smoothly covarying SPT patterns separated around 50 days. SPT patterns of daytime and night-time of Rn and Tn depict additional separations of gradually varying multi-year patterns. For both radionuclides, the night-time SPT precedes the daytime SPT—by around 105 days for Tn and around 60 days for Rn. In the case of temperature, the SPT of daytime and night-time measurements overlap at around day 195. Thus, for Rn and Tn, daytime and night-time differences depend on the time of measurement within the 24 h cycle. This implies that Rn and Tn measurements are influenced by the rotation of the Earth around its axis. It is suggested that these relations, observed in coexisting Rn and Tn, are a further indication for a solar (extraterrestrial) influence on nuclear radiation, previously suggested for radon.


1966 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 1051-1059 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmond R. Cole ◽  
J. L. Koppel ◽  
John H. Olwin

Thrombin, usually regarded as a trypsin-like enzyme capable of hydrolyzing only esters of the amino acids arginine and lysine, was found to hydrolyze certain other amino acid esters which are considered specific chymotrypsin substrates. L-Phenylalanine methyl ester inhibited the activation of purified bovine prothrombin by autoprothrombin C, Ac-globulin, phospholipid, and calcium. It was subsequently shown that thrombin is capable of hydrolyzing L-phenylalanine methyl ester or L-tyrosine ethyl ester. This activity developed simultaneously with fibrogen clotting activity during activation of purified bovine prothrombin in 25% sodium citrate solutions. Moreover, the activity was closely associated with clotting activity on subsequent chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and Amberlite IRC-50 resin columns. All preparations of bovine thrombin, representing a wide range of purity, which have been examined, exhibited this hydrolyzing activity toward L-phenylalanine methyl ester. Further evidence linking this esterase activity with fibrinogen clotting activity was obtained when both activities were inhibited by 2-nitro-4-carboxyphenyl-N,N-diphenylcarbamate, an inhibitor of chymotrypsin.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry M. Sonechkin

Abstract. About 250 years ago L. Euler has derived a system of three quadratic-nonlinear differential equations to depict the rotation of the Earth as a rigid body. Neglecting a small distinction between the equatorial inertia moments, he reduced this system to much simpler linear one, and concluded that the Earth's pole must experience a harmonic oscillation of the 304-day period. Astronomers could not find this oscillation, but instead, S.C Chandler has found two powerful wobbles with the 12- and ~ 14-month periods in reality. Adhering to the Euler's linearization, astronomers can not explain the nature of the later wobble up to now. I indicate that the neglect by the above small distinction (“a small parameter” of the Euler's primary nonlinear equations) is not admissible because the effect of this parameter is singular. Analysing the primary equations by an asymptotic technique, I demonstrate that the Chandler wobble tones are formed from combinational harmonics of the Euler's 304-day oscillation, long-term Luni-Solar tides as well as the 22-year cycle of the heliomagnetic activity. Correlating simultaneous variations of the wobble and a solar activity index, I corroborate that the Chandler wobble is really affected by the Sun.


This volume vividly demonstrates the importance and increasing breadth of quantitative methods in the earth sciences. With contributions from an international cast of leading practitioners, chapters cover a wide range of state-of-the-art methods and applications, including computer modeling and mapping techniques. Many chapters also contain reviews and extensive bibliographies which serve to make this an invaluable introduction to the entire field. In addition to its detailed presentations, the book includes chapters on the history of geomathematics and on R.G.V. Eigen, the "father" of mathematical geology. Written to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the International Association for Mathematical Geology, the book will be sought after by both practitioners and researchers in all branches of geology.


Author(s):  
David Fisher

There are eight columns in the Periodic Table. The eighth column is comprised of the rare gases, so-called because they are the rarest elements on earth. They are also called the inert or noble gases because, like nobility, they do no work. They are colorless, odorless, invisible gases which do not react with anything, and were thought to be unimportant until the early 1960s. Starting in that era, David Fisher has spent roughly fifty years doing research on these gases, publishing nearly a hundred papers in the scientific journals, applying them to problems in geophysics and cosmochemistry, and learning how other scientists have utilized them to change our ideas about the universe, the sun, and our own planet. Much Ado about (Practically) Nothing will cover this spectrum of ideas, interspersed with the author's own work which will serve to introduce each gas and the important work others have done with them. The rare gases have participated in a wide range of scientific advances-even revolutions-but no book has ever recorded the entire story. Fisher will range from the intricacies of the atomic nucleus and the tiniest of elementary particles, the neutrino, to the energy source of the stars; from the age of the earth to its future energies; from life on Mars to cancer here on earth. A whole panoply that has never before been told as an entity.


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