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3 years ago

why is uranium 235 the most commonly used isotope for nuclear fission in current uses in nuclear power generation?

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This is because U-235 decays naturally by a process known as alpha radiation. This means that it releases an alpha particle (two neutrons and two protons connected together).
Another reason that U-235 is ideal for producing nuclear power is that unlike most materials, U-235 can undergo induced fission. When a free neutron collides with a U-235 nucleus, the nucleus will usually capture the neutron and split extremely quickly. The splitting of a single U-235 atom can release roughly 200 MeV (million electron volts).

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Determine the primary structure of an octapeptide from the following data: acid-catalyzed hydrolysis gives 2 arg, leu, lys, met,

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Answer:

The sequence of these amino acid would be

Lue Arg Lys Arg Met Phe Arg Ser

Explanation:

The acid-catalyzed hydrolysis from makes us to understand that the polypeptides contains 8 amino acids

From the question we are told that the Edman's reagent releases Leu it means that the N-terminal amino acid would be Lue(i.e Leucine)

Also from the question we are told that the Carboxypeptidase released Ser this mean the the C-terminal amino acid would be Ser ( i.e Serine)

The Amino acids would in the polypeptides would be arranged like this

Lue __ __ __ __ __ __ Ser

Now from the question we are told that treatment with cranogen bromide form two peptides.

Now generally cranogen bromide divides a peptide on the C- side(i.e the extreme left side ) of Met(Methionine)(This is an amino acid obtained by hydrolysis of most common peptides )

So this means that any peptides containing Met(Methionine) must have Methionine as a C- terminal amino acid(i.e at extreme left) and for peptides that does not contain Met must be C - terminal peptides

From the question we see that it is the second peptide that contain Met and it is a penta peptide(i.e it contains 5 amino acid)

Thus the fifth amino acid is Met

So the sequence of these amino acid would now be

Lue __ __ __ Met __ __ Ser

From the question we are told that the the Trypsin-catalyzed hydrolysis forms two amino acid and two peptides

Now generally Trypsin divides a peptide on the C- side(i.e the extreme left) of Arg(Arginine) and Lys (lysine) and any peptide that holds Arg or Lys must have them as their C- terminal amino acids

From the first peptide in the two peptide formed we see that Arg would be the Seventh amino acid of the octapeptide because commonly the trypsin that sticks to the C-side of Arg would for Ser

and Phe would be the sixth amino acid of the octapeptide

So the sequence of these amino acid would be

Lue __ __ __ Met Phe Arg Ser

Looking at the first amino acid formed from the Trypsin-catalyzed hydrolysis we see that Arg would be the fourth amino acid of octapeptide as Trypsin divides a peptide on the C- side(i.e the extreme left) of Arg(Arginine).

From the second peptide of the Trypsin-catalyzed hydrolysis we see that Lys would be the third amino acid of the octapeptide as trypsin divides on the C- side of Lys (lysine) and Tyr would be the second amino acid of the octapeptide

So the sequence of these amino acid would be

Lue Arg Lys Arg Met Phe Arg Ser

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Aspirin is odorless, but when left exposed to air in the environment, it gradually hydrolyzes into salicylic acid and acetic acid as that is the precursor for synthesizing Aspirin.

Using this hydrolyzed aspirin for titration would not be advised, because it would affect the reading of the titration. Ordinarily, apsirin is a weak acid and direct titration of aspirin is problematic because it hydrolyzes pretty fast to salicylic acid— leading to an unwanted side reaction which may or may not go to completion. Therefore, excess base must be added and heat is supplied to the mixture so that neutralization and hydrolysis are complete. The remaining base is then titrated. This is called back titration.

Now, in back titration, instead of using solution whose concentration is expected to be known, we rather use excess volume of reactant which has been left over after the completion of a reaction with the analyte.

In this case, we use an alkali, preferably NaOH (1.0 mol/dm³). Te unused NaOH remaining after the hydrolysis is titrated against a standard HCl (0.1 mol/dm³). Then from the reaction equation of the aspirin and sodium hydroxide, the amount of NaOH required for the hydrolysis can be calculated.

Answering whether the titration goes up or down, it would be observed that the titration reading would GO DOWN because the exposed aspirin used has experienced some form of hydrolysis before it was used for titration, so the hydrolysis reaction it would undergo with acetyl-salicylic acid would be minimal, and this would affect the titration reading.

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