氡一居室中的杀手

居室环境的质量已越来越引起人们的关注与重视。近年来，由于居室环境的污染，导致人体健康出现问题的报道屡见不鲜。通常的室内环境污染如烟雾、一氧化碳、二氧化碳、有害金属等较易被人们发现并加以治理，而居室中对人体健康有极大危害的氡污染却常常被人们忽略。     

居室氡的影响因素及分布特点

氡是天然放射性系列铀系中唯一的气态元素,它对人体健康的影响尤其是氡与肺癌的关系已引起人们的高度重视,已成为环境保护研究的一个重要对象.本文就地壳中放射性元素的分布规律及氡的迁移进行介绍,并着重讨论了居室氡的影响因素,以期利于今后氡危害防治工作的进行.     

居室氡的迁移特征和数值模拟

氡气的污染是室内建筑空气环境中一个比较突出的问题。通过对国内外资料历年研究成果的分析,利用数值差分的方法,建立了室内氡气传输的三维稳态方程,给出了相应的边界条件,对室内氡浓度的迁移特征进行了数值模拟,并对其影响因素进行了讨论。     

氡与氡的危害

本简述了氡的物理，化学特征和射气作用，介绍了氡测量方法，着重阐述了非矿山氡积累对人类健康产生的危害与防治，通过具体数据和实例说明了人类对氡危害的认识过程，提出了对环境生态评价及对氡侵害人体健康的一些防治措施。     

氡在岩石中的存在特点

本文用多种试验数据以阐明氡在岩石中的存在特点及扩散迁移性质,引进了计算扩散距离的公式并探讨了加热时氡的逸出特征。     

氡(222Rn)在地下水-地表水相互作用中的应用研究进展

地下水-地表水相互作用是水资源管理和地表水生态系统保护中重要的一个环节,氡同位素(²²²Rn)由于其在地下水与地表水中含量差异显著、性质保守、检测难度低,广泛运用于地下水-地表水相互作用的研究当中。本文通过总结分析²²²Rn在不同地表水体(海水、河水、湖水等)中的应用,指出刻画地下水氡浓度的异质性是估算地下水排泄的重点和难点。在估算海底地下水排泄(SGD)时,氡的混合损失项估算不确定、海水氡浓度时空变异性、SGD的多组分特征等可能给估算结果带来较大不确定性;在估算河流地下水排泄时难以确定氡的大气逃逸量;研究人员对氡在示踪地表水补给地下水方面的研究程度相对不足。本文从科学研究和实际生产方面,对²²²Rn的研究应用提出以下潜在方向:(1)降低地下水氡空间变异性对估算地下水排泄量的影响;(2)针对不同水体、不同水文条件,准确刻画氡的大气逃逸量;(3)拓展²²²Rn示踪能够解决的科学问题;(4)将氡质量平衡模型计算与不确定分析相结合,实现软件化。     

氡撰写氡量变化规律的数学模型

本文建立了在稳定氡源的情况下，氡室中氡量变化规律的数学模型，并导出了氡室中氡量控制参数的三个计算公式。该数学模型为氡室的研制和氡量控制提供了理论依据。对环境的辐射监测与评价也有指导意义。     

用氡-222评价五缘湾的地下水输入

海底地下水排泄(SGD)近年来成为陆-海相互作用的研究热点,地球化学示踪方法是其主要研究手段,尝试用天然示踪剂氡-222评价厦门五缘湾的SGD。为了评价五缘湾SGD的入海通量及其变化,对五缘湾海水中²²²Rn和²²⁶Ra活度、大气中²²²Rn活度、风速、水温和水深进行了连续2 d的测量,对沉积物进行了培养实验用以获得其²²²Rn扩散通量和孔隙水中²²²Rn活度。基于海水中²²²Rn通量的质量平衡,对实测的海水中²²²Rn活度实施了母体支持、涨落潮影响、大气逃逸损失、沉积物扩散输入、混合损失的校正,保守估计SGD输入的²²²Rn通量在0~126.7 Bq/(m²·h)范围内变化,对海水中²²²Rn的平均贡献达54%。以井水和孔隙水中²²²Rn的加权平均值作为SGD端元的代表,获得SGD的输入速率为0~29.3 cm/d,平均输入速率9.3 cm/d。SGD输入速率的动态变化基本围绕12 h的周期波动,是对本海域正规半日潮的具体响应。假设SGD以平均速率在五缘湾海底输入,则五缘湾海底的SGD输入量为1.86×10⁵ m³/d。以陆源地下淡水占SGD输入量的10%考虑,五缘湾的陆源地下淡水输入量约为1.86×10⁴ m³/d。     

Taming the killer lakes of Cameroon

A chain of volcanoes, some of them still active, extends from the Atlantic Ocean into the highlands of Cameroon. Mount Cameroon, located at the edge of the continent, erupted in 1999 and 2000 and spewed lava part-way down its flanks, cutting off a coastal road. A number of the now extinct (or dormant) volcanic craters on the continental part of the line are filled with water, forming crater lakes. These lakes have achieved mythical status in local tribal lore. Lacking a written history, prior to the arrival of the colonial powers, much of our understanding of past natural phenomena relating to the lakes is based on these myths.     

童屋布置的小细节

装修达标了,用具也合格了,儿童房还有一些细节要特别注意.这些看似无关痛痒,但决不可掉以轻心.     

The room for the Vendian in the International Chronostratigraphic Chart

The Vendian was proposed by B.S. Sokolov as a stratigraphic subdivision comprising the last of the Proterozoic glacial periods (the Laplandian Glaciation) and the overlying strata delineated by a full stratigraphic range of fossil soft-bodied organisms. For over three decades the Vendian had been an informal part of the Standard Global Chronostratigraphic Chart, until 2004, when it gave place to the new Ediacaran System. Further research has shown that the Ediacaran System significantly exceeds the stratigraphic range of the Vendian in Sokolov’s definition and includes stratigraphic analogs of the Laplandian Glaciation in sections across North America, Australia, Newfoundland, Scotland, Ireland, Chinese Tien Shan Range, and Tasmanian microcontinent. Carbon isotope variations in carbonates provide criteria for subdivision of the Ediacaran into two series. If a relationship between the Laplandian Glacial Period (600–580 Ma) and the negative excursions EN2 and EN3 on the 5¹³C curve for the Doushantuo Formation of China is established, the Vendian might take its place in the Standard Global Chronostratigraphic Chart as a formal upper series of the Ediacaran System. The Vendian Series, in turn, might be further subdivided into the Laplandian, Redkinian, Belomorian, and Kotlinian stages typified by regional stages of the Vendian of the East European Platform.     

石材与人类

随着人类文明的进步与发展,石材的应用在不同的国家和民族形成了各自的地域文化和民族文化,中国是世界上应用石材最早的国家之一,有着悠久的历史,是中国民族文化不可分割的一部分,近年来,随着对石材深加工的深入研究,使天然石材越来越显露出它的艺术魅力。     

实践"三个代表"与抓住"三个第一"

本文详细论述了实践“三个代表”与必须抓住“第一要务”，“第一生产力”与“第一资源”的辩证统一关系，并强调深入学习贯彻“三个代表”重要思想所遵循的原则。     

Computer simulation of the transformation of natural living matter into kerogen

Thermodynamic simulation of the system living matter (algae, zooplankton, or green plants) + mineral matter (25% carbonates + 75% clay minerals) + standard seawater at temperatures and pressure corresponding to diagenesis indicates that kerogen can be synthesized, together with hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide, in the reaction mix. The removal of CO₂(g) and N₂(g) from the system is favorable for the reaction Δ₁C₂₉₂H₂₈₈O₁₂ (s; H/C = 0.99, O/C = 0.041) → Δ₂C₁₂₈H₆₈O₇ (s; H/C = 0.53, O/C = 0.055) + xСH₄(aq) + yCO₂(aq) + zH₂O, whose constant and stoichiometric coefficients were calculated based on the simulation results. It is demonstrated that a pressure increase is favorable, while a temperature increase is not, for the procedure of this reaction at P-T parameters of diagenesis: log K =–567 (20°C, 35 bar), 1170 (20°C, 200 bar),–1530 (20°C, 60 bar), and +1030 (20°C, 600 bar).     

Graptolites: fossil and living

Every student of palaeontology will stumble upon the term ‘graptolite’ at some point and will wonder what these strange little fossils mean. Thought to be long extinct, the few living graptolites and their extinct relatives have been united quite recently by palaeontologists through cladistic analysis. Not that the extant graptolites were overlooked, but the connection has never been made between the fossil graptolites and their modern descendants. We now have a much better scientific basis for our interpretation and understanding of these fossils and graptolites are recognized as part of a living clade of small and inconspicuous marine organisms, the Pterobranchia. They have been around since the Cambrian Period (c. 520–510 Ma) and, thus, they may represent one of the longest‐existing groups of organisms. Not that they should be termed ‘living fossils’, but their perseverance is remarkable in its own way and may lead to the question as to how they were able to achieve this success and survive for all these eons. May they be able to show us a key to survival in the future?