Equilibrium condition and stabilization kinetics of lactic acid oligomers in aqueous solutions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Lactic acid is one of the most important compounds in the field of bio‐renewable chemicals. Lactic acid is present in nature but can also be produced by chemical synthesis or by fermentation of biomass. It can be used as raw material for the production of biodegradable and environmentally friendly polymers or copolymers, such as poly lactic acid (PLA). In this work, the equilibrium distribution of monomer and low molecular weight oligomers of lactic acid in aqueous solutions at different overall concentrations of lactic acid (from 0.09 g/g to 0.94 g/g) and temperatures (423 K and 453 K), was investigated. In addition, a kinetic study of monomer and oligomer esterification reactions, of a lactic acid aqueous solution at about 0.09 g/g, was carried out at 423, 433, 443, and 453 K. The values of the kinetic constants were successfully correlated through Arrhenius’ law.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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