Commercial applications abound as well, especially in the gaming industry imagine getting a hit of virtual lemon candy or chocolate after completing a level on Candy Crush.īut manipulating your taste buds isn’t something just for people who want to make video games or enable diabetic folks to enjoy sweet flavors. The researchers see their invention as a way for diabetics to enjoy sweetness without affecting their blood-sugar levels, or to enhance the quality of life for cancer patients and other people with dysfunctional tastes. Electrical and thermal stimulation fools your taste buds into registering salty, sweet, sour or bitter flavors. Scientists in Singapore recently unveiled a device to create virtual “tastes” using a little electrode placed on the tip of your tongue. In our more mundane, human-dominated world, taste remains a tricky thing to manipulate. Digital information fed to millions of captive brains makes people think they’re eating steak or cereal instead of nutrient goop. In “The Matrix,” the machines that rule the Earth have locked humanity in a total immersion experience that fools all five senses, including taste. Searching the best fit of the related function is involved with addition of consecutive hyperbolic terms.The future of soda may be a lot less sugary, but still just as sweet, thanks to biotechnology. The TAL is determined according to curve–fitting method with use of iterative computer program, applied to nonlinear regression equation involving Simms or Hill constants.
The new concepts of total alkalinity (TAL) and total acidity (TAC), unlike ones considered hitherto, has been introduced. A kind of “homogenization” of complex acid-base systems, with polyprotic acids with defined and/or undefined (e.g., fulvic acids) composition, with use of an approach based on Simms constants principle, has been considered in context with buffer capacity and alkalinity. The equations useful for searching the inflection points on titration curves are derived. The “windowed” (BV) buffer capacity is interrelated with “dynamic” (βV) buffer capacity, introduced for dynamic (titration) systems. Some derivative properties of the curves, such as buffer capacity and inflection points, are also discussed.
The related curves are presented in compact forms facilitating further operations made for particular needs. This article provides extensive and exhaustive mathematical description of titration curves related to acid-base systems with mixtures of mono- and polyprotic acids and their salts and bases involved.
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