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The elemental sulfur solubility in sour gas plays an important role in H₂S-rich gas reservoir development and transportation. While the solubility of elemental sulfur in sour gas can be measured in macroscopical respect, the interaction of solid deposition is not clear at microscale. In this work, molecular dynamic simulation (MD) was adopted to predict the solubility of elemental sulfur in hydrogen sulfide at nanoscale. It is found that the results of new nanoscale solubility model are close to the reported experimental data. The average relative error of the solubility of elemental sulfur in hydrogen sulfide by using the new model is 11.05% compared with the experimental data. Therefore, the new model can be used to predict the solubility of elemental sulfur in hydrogen sulfide.

The pancreas is a large gland capable of both exocrine and endocrine functions; it releases digestive enzymes into the duodenum and hormones into the bloodstream. It is known that Zn plays a key role in the synthesis and action of insulin, one of the pancreatic hormones. However, elemental profiles of the pancreas are not well understood. Here, we examined precise distributions of elements in the pancreas of newborn and young rats by scanning microbeam particle induced X-ray emission (micro PIXE) analysis and compared the results to those of adult animals.

Micro PIXE analysis revealed a site-specific distribution of elements in the two major compartments of the pancreas, the exocrine (acinar tissue) and the endocrine portions (islets of Langerhans). The Zn concentrations in the pancreas of the newborn (six days), young (three weeks), and adult rats (ten weeks) were 11.3 ± 2.5 μg/g wet weight, 7.26 ± 0.36 μg/g wet weight, and 10.8 ± 1.1 μg/g wet weight, respectively. In newborn and young rats, Zn was detected mainly in the islets of Langerhans, while K and P were distributed more to the acinar tissues than the islet cells. The site-specific distributions of K, P, and Zn were more obvious in the adult animals.

The electronic structure of H₂S adsorbed on the goethite (110) surface has been studied by ASED-MO cluster calculations. We have studied both the perpendicular and the parallel H₂S molecular adsorption on the FeOOH(110) surface. We have analyzed the adsorption configuration energies including rotation. The parallel species does not rotate during adsorption and corresponds to the most stable configuration. We have also studied the bonding contributions for the minimum energy configuration and the density of states plots.