New World Gold

Vilches, Elvira

doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226856193.001.0001

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“…The estimate T c,NT = 67 K is also sensibly close to the value predicted , for a strictly 2D system of LJ particles, T c,2D = 0.52ε aa = 62 K. Interestingly, the experimental value for the L-V transition on graphite, reported by Migone, Li, and Chan, is somewhat lower than this, T c,graphite ∼ 55 K. Similarly, the experimental isotherms of Wang et al on the nanotube indicate that the transition is expected to occur somewhat below 66 K, the lowest temperature studied . Their extrapolation of those data, using the traditional method based on the inverse of the maximum slope of a succession of isotherms, yielded a value T c,NT ∼ 55 K, quite close to the graphite value. This disagreement with the simulations suggests that the interatomic potential for Ar in both cases is about 10−15% less attractive than in free space.…”

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Phase Behavior of Ar and Kr Films on Carbon Nanotubes

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Recent experiments (Wang et al., 2010) have found evidence of phase transitions of gases adsorbed on a single carbon nanotube. In order to understand the observations, we have carried out classical grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations of this system, for the cases of Ar and Kr on zigzag and armchair nanotubes with radius R > 0.7 nm. The calculated behavior resembles the experimental results in the case of Ar. However, the prominent, ordered phase found for Kr in both simulations and (classical) energy minimization calculations differs from that deduced from the experimental data. A tentative explanation of the apparent discrepancy is that the experiments involve a nanotube of rather large radius (>1.5 nm).

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Section: Simulation Results: Zigzag and Armchair Nanotubesmentioning

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Phase Behavior of Ar and Kr Films on Carbon Nanotubes

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“…39 In 1557, Spain faced bankruptcy and Genoese bankers transformed short-term loans called asientos into long-term bonds with revenues that rested on a range of taxes. 40 This granted more power to the authorities in charge of collecting these duties and taxes, particularly the regidores, local officials in charge of the finances of the community who, in turn, consolidated their rentier interests and speculated on the value of land. 41 Faced with these changes in the peninsula's social fabric, Scholastic thinkers of the period, like Fernando Vázquez de Menchaca, felt the need to remind the King that his authority rested on consensus populi.…”

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The assembly of public trust: republicanism and the birth of political economy in eighteenth-century Spain

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2021

History of European Ideas

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This article studies how a plan to reinvent the Spanish parliamentary Cortes generated the growth of eighteenth-century Spanish political economy. The article sheds light on how eighteenth-century Spanish debates over investment, assemblies, and corporations recovered parliamentary ideals, envisioned corporate boards of transnational cooperation, and deliberated on the political economy of patriotism. Contrary to the dominant historiographical view, Spanish republicanism did not wane under the Bourbon Monarchy. In order to resolve the social and economic impact of dynastic crises in the Spanish Empire, political economists argued that the establishment of corporations throughout the peninsula could republicanise Spanish finances and revitalise trust in the Spanish Monarchy. The article reconsiders early modern Spain's republican and parliamentary traditions, and suggests that eighteenthcentury Spanish political economy emerged from the need to escape the cycles of dynastic crises and to put an end to 'the fear of the new'.

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“…Political economists and moralists alike blamed the Indies and its wealth, luxury, and fallen values for the ruin of the Spanish economy and the effeminization of Spanish aristocracy. 57 In response to the financial crisis in Spain, precious metals in hats, shoes, clothes, and home furnishings were condemned. Individuals were not only squandering their money, but riches were feminizing citizens and impoverishing the nation.…”

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confidence: 99%