The technique of matrix isolation involves condensing the substance to be studied with a large excess of inert gas (usually argon or nitrogen) at low temperature to form a rigid solid (the matrix). The early development of matrix isolation spectroscopy was directed primarily to the study of unstable molecules and free radicals. The ability to stabilise reactive species by trapping them in a rigid cage, thus inhibiting intermolecular interaction, is an important feature of matrix isolation. The low temperatures (typically 4-20K) also prevent the occurrence of any process with an activation energy of more than a few kJ mol-1. Apart from the stabilisation of reactive species, matrix isolation affords a number of advantages over more conventional spectroscopic techniques. The isolation of monomelic solute molecules in an inert environment reduces intermolecular interactions, resulting in a sharpening of the solute absorption compared with other condensed phases. The effect is, of course, particularly dramatic for substances that engage in hydrogen bonding. Although the technique was developed to inhibit intermolecular interactions, it has also proved of great value in studying these interactions in molecular complexes formed in matrices at higher concentrations than those required for true isolation.
<u>Answer:</u>
The chance that any single department is chosen for auditing in a given week is 0.04%
<u>Explanation:</u>
Given that a department within an agency is randomly chosen per week for auditing and we are given total number of departments are 25 departments of which 1 is to be chosen.
Now chance of any single department to be chosen in any particular week will be given by 1 dividing by total no. of departments
which is equal to 1/25
1/25 = 0.04%
which is the chance of percentage of choosing a department
Answer:
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Step-by-step explanation:
Stack the numbers on top of each other so the decimals are lined up. Get rid of the decimals and then multiply. Put the decimal point back in directly under where it was before
The area for a rhombus is

. We have the area and the length of one of the diagonals, so we fill in accordingly:

. 8x/2 = 4x, so now we have 16=4x. Divide both sides by 4 to get x = 4. It's not longer than 8, but it's the length of the other diagonal, for sure.