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A M Kuznetsov

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Bioluminescent method in studying the complex effect of sewage components.

The inhibition of bacterial luminescence has been used in testing industrial enterprises sewage. The toxicity of the sewage is less than the total toxicity of separate components due to neutralization of quinone products of polyphenol oxidation in the reactions with the other phenol components of sewage. Toxicity increase is due to their influence on the cell membrane. Studies of cell ultrastructure confirm this fact. The studied mechanism of the complex effect allowed a more accurate forecast of the ecological situation during the discharge of phenol compounds and metals. It also showed the necessity of taking into account the complex effect of sewage components on contaminant discharge into water reservoirs.

Benzoquinones

The mechanism of cathode reduction of oxygen in a carbon carrier-laccase system.

The influence of temperature, oxygen pressure and inhibitors of laccase on the dioxygen electroreduction reaction has been examined at different solution pH. On the basis of obtained data, a reaction mechanism including electron transfer from the enzyme active site to the oxygen molecule is suggested as the slow step.

Electrochemistry

[Possible use of new corrosion-resistant steels in the manufacture of medical instruments].

Demands on metals intended for the manufacture of medical instruments call for the use of corrosion-resisting grades of steel with high strength characteristics. Grades of steel of the martensite class reinforced by age hardening (martensive-aging) and mild grades of steel (chrome-manganese and chrome-nickel) have a number of valuable advantages over the steel of other classes. The possibility of obtaining high strength with low carbon dontent ensures great plasticity, toughness and brittle failure resistance along with corrosion-resistance and the possibility of achieving a substantial simplification in technology of making the instruments. Investigations of martensite-aging grades of steel--ep832,ochX11H9M2d2Tyu, O3X11HMd2yu and O3X13g3Md2 demostrated them to hold good promise for the manufacture of surgical and atraumatic needles, and rod-type stomatological instruments.

Dental Instruments