An Asphaltene Association Model Analogous to Linear Polymerization
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Abstract
Asphaltene self-association was modeled in a manner analogous to linear polymerization. The key concept in the model is that asphaltene molecules may contain single or multiple active sites (functional groups) capable of linking with other asphaltenes. Molecules with multiple active sites act as propagators and molecules with single active sites act as terminators in polymerization-like association “reactions”. Asphaltenes consist primarily of propagators. Resins, which are known to affect asphaltene association, consist primarily of terminators. The model was tested on existing molar mass data for asphaltenes in different solvents and at different temperatures as well as on new molar mass measurements of mixtures of asphaltene and resins. The model fit the existing experimental data well and predicted the molar mass of asphaltene−resin mixtures to within the accuracy of the measurements.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it