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Enhancing salty taste through odour–taste–taste interactions: Influence of odour intensity and salty tastants’ nature
2013
WOS:000315557500017 ; www.elsevier.com/locate/foodqual; International audience; Decreasing the sodium content in food products without changing consumer acceptability has become an important challenge for the food industry, and several strategies are currently under investigation to reach this goal. This study investigated the effectiveness of saltiness enhancement by an odour to maintain the perception of saltiness in reduced salt content solutions. In the first experiment, we tested the hypothesis that odour intensity drives the level of saltiness enhancement. The results showed that odour can increase the salty intensity by 25%, while no clear influence of odour intensity either in taste…
Taste active compounds in a goat cheese water-soluble extract 2. Determination of the relative impact of water-soluble extract components on its tast…
2000
The aim of this work was to determine the relative impact of water-soluble compounds on the gustatory properties of a goat cheese water-soluble extract (WSE). Using a semisynthetic model mixture (MWSE) previously elaborated in physicochemical and gustatory accordance with the cheese WSE (see part 1, Engel et al. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2000, 48, 4252-4259), omission tests were performed. Among the main taste characteristics of the WSE (salty, sour, and bitter), saltiness was explained by an additive contribution of sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium cations, whereas sourness was mainly due to a synergistic effect involving sodium chloride, phosphates, and lactic acid and bitterness was …
Imaging synaptic zinc release in living nervous tissue
2001
Zinc enriched neurons have a pool of synaptic vesicles which contain free or loosely-bound zinc ions. The movement of the vesicular zinc ions into the synaptic clefts has been previously studied by microdialysis, fluorescence postmortem staining for zinc and radioactive zinc isotope. In this study the zinc fluorescence probe N-6-metoxy-p-toluensulfonamide quinoline (TSQ) has been applied as a tracer of synaptic release of zinc ions. This fluorochrome permeates cell membranes and when exposed to living brain slices gives rise to a staining pattern similar to that seen with autometallography. In the living brain slices, fluorescence emission persists after exposure to calcium saturated ethyle…
CCDC 125321: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
1996
Related Article: J.Faus, F.Lloret, M.Julve, J.M.Clemente-Juan, M.C.Munoz, X.Solans, M.Font-Bardia|1996|Angew.Chem.,Int.Ed.|35|1485|doi:10.1002/anie.199614851
Preparation and characterization of new low melting ammonium-based ionic liquids with ether functionality
2009
Abstract Eighteen new and three previously known but insufficiently characterized RR´3N+A− and R2R´2N+A− type (R = 2-ethoxyethyl or 4-methoxybenzyl, R´ = methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, n-butyl, n-pentyl or n-hexyl, A = Br, BF4 or PF6) quaternary ammonium (QA) salts were synthesized and characterized by using 1H and 13C NMR techniques, mass spectroscopy and elemental analysis. The bromide salts were synthesized either by treating dimethyl formamide with an ether functionalized alkyl bromide in the presence of potassium carbonate or by treating a tertiary amine with an ether functionalized alkyl bromide. The QA tetrafluoroborates and hexafluorophosphates were synthesized by metathesis reaction betw…
Tris(1,10-phenanthroline)zinc(II) dichromate tetrahydrate
2002
The title compound, [Zn(C12H8N2)3][Cr2O7]·4H2O, was obtained by mixing 1,10-phenanthroline (phen), potassium chromate and zinc sulfate solutions. The asymmetric unit is composed of a [Zn(phen)3]2+ cation, a Cr2O72− anion and four water molecules. The ZnII ion is in a distorted octahedral environment, coordinated by six N atoms from three phen molecules. The cations are connected to anions by weak C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, with shortest H⋯O distances of ca 2.27–2.33 A. The Cr2O72− anion is in a staggered conformation. Two of the four crystallographically independent water molecules are ordered, and two others are disordered, each over two sites.
Surface properties and catalytic performance for ethane combustion of La1−xKxMnO3+δ perovskites
2001
Abstract The influence of K substitution in LaMnO3 perovskite on the surface properties and catalytic oxidation of ethane has been studied. La1−xKxMnO3+δ perovskites (x=0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20 and 0.25) with BET surface area of 20–26 m2 g−1 have been prepared by the freeze-drying method and characterized by X-ray diffraction patterns (XRD), TPR, TPD and XPS. The XRD analyses showed the presence of a single crystalline phase (x≤0.15) with the linear increase of the lattice parameter corroborating the incorporation of potassium in the perovskite structure. The XPS studies revealed an enrichment of the perovskite surface with potassium accompanied by an increase in the surface Mn4+/Mn3+ ratio. …
Modeling of the catalytic effects of potassium and calcium on spruce wood gasification in CO2
2016
Abstract Using previously reported thermogravimetric analysis measurements, the effects of calcium and potassium on the char gasification rate of spruce wood were modeled. Spruce wood was leached of inorganic ash elements and doped with measured amounts of potassium and calcium. The wood was gasified in an isothermal thermogravimetric analysis device in CO 2 where the devolatilization of the wood, char formation and char gasification all occurred inside the preheated reactor. A new method for separating the effects of devolatilization and char gasification is presented. Kinetic models were evaluated for their ability to describe the observed catalytic effects of potassium and calcium on the…
Thermal stability and reactivity in oxygen of potassium ferrites with spinel structure
1990
The potassium content really incorporated in the spinel lattice of the magnetite determined by thermogravimetric analysis in vacuum or in oxygen was about 2.45 wt%. In spite of this low content, the potassium strongly stabilises the defect spinel structure resulted by the potassium-substituted magnetite oxidation and increases the transformation temperature of the defect phases into α-Fe2O3 or KFe11O17.
Influence of sample pan on the thermal behaviour of KSCN measured with TG
2003
Abstract In this study, the influence of the sample pan on the thermal behaviour of potassium thiocyanate (KSCN) was investigated. The measurements were performed with thermogravimetry (TG) and the two sample pans used were a platinum pan and a ceramic crucible. The samples were heated to 400–950 °C and the thermal products were identified by powder diffraction. The thermal behaviour of KSCN was found to be dependent on the sample pan used. With the platinum sample pan KSCN reacted in the first step into a mixture of K 2 SO 4 and potassium tetracyanoplatinate (K 2 Pt(CN) 4 ). In the second step, the mixture reacted further to pure K 2 SO 4 . In the ceramic sample crucible, however, the reac…