Aims: This study is aimed to determine the distribution of detergent contamination in the Code River and the ability to remove it from laundry wastewater samples by using photocatalytic degradation and coagulation methods. Place and Duration of Study: The study was located at the...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/9583
Karoline de N. R. dos Santos, Cleydson Breno R. Santos, Adriana M. Ferreira, Francinaldo S. Braga, Cleison C. Lobato, Alexandro C. Florentino, José Carlos T. Carvalho & Roberto M. Bezerra·Chemical Science International Journal·2014
Aims: Determine the concentration of trace-metals (Na, K, Mg, Ca, Pb and Zn) in sediments and plant Cenchrus echinatus L. species on Canal of Jandiá and Igarape of Fortaleza in the municipality of Macapa, Amapa, Brazil. Study Design: The sediment samples were collected (0.3kg) at...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/10589
Brick which originated from Bangui Region (in Central African Republic), was pre-activated with HCl at 90°C and coated with ferrihydrite. This material was used in the present work as an adsorbent mainly for the removal of metallic cations (Me2+ = Cd2+; Cu2+; Pb2+; Zn2+) from aqu...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/9275
Roald A. Lambrechts, Balaji Srinivasan, Edzard M. Geertsema, Gerrit J. Poelarends, Ody C. M. Sibon & Marianne De Villiers·Chemical Science International Journal·2014
Pantetheine, a low molecular weight thiol, has been found to ameliorate symptoms in various disease models but specifically in Pantothenate Kinase-Associated Neurodegeneration (PKAN). Pantetheine is usually administered in its disulfide form (i.e. pantethine) since pantethine is...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/7335
Among the diverse types of waste, glass is one of the most adequate recycling materials because it can be revived and recycled completely and hardly decomposes. The glass recycle process basically involves collecting, sorting, then crushing and grinding after which glass cullet i...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/8939
In this paper, two types of quinoline functionalized rhodium complexes were synthesized by stirring imidazolium salts with silver oxide to obtain silver carbenes. According to the method, the corresponding non chelated rhodium complexes were access by transmetallation of silver c...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/9411
Aims: To compare various models describing the sorption of synthetic dyes in multicomponent systems. For selected models, their predictive ability (an ability to predict the sorption behavior in muticomponent systems from the model parameters obtained in the single-component syst...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/9208
In the past few decades selenium nanoparticles have received a considerable importance because of its effective biological applications. Therefore, nano-structured Se-doped ZnO photocatalyst has been synthesized by electrochemical method, which is a simple and an inexpensive meth...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/8748
The amino acids, alanine (Ala) and phenyl alanine (Phe) and their Schiff bases (Ala-Sal), (Phe-Sal) were complexed with iron [III] metal. The complexes (Fe-Ala), (Fe-Phe) and Schiff bases complexes (Fe-Ala-Sal) and (Fe-Phe-Sal) were characterized by the UV, IR, NMR and SEM. The c...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/9185
A simple, versatile and efficient method has been developed for the synthesis of 4H-pyran derivatives 4a-k via a three-component cyclocondensation of aldehydes, malononitrile and ethyl acetoacetate under heterogeneous conditions using silica supported ammonium acetate as the recy...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/5644