Aims: The present study determined the quality status of drinking water in some locations of Northeastern Nigeria and attempted to present an explanatory interaction profile of Cd, Pb and Zn on the bases of the relative abundance of Fe in the drinking water samples. Study Design:...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/3924
Oils were extracted from Moringa oleifera and Citrullus colocythis L. (melon) seeds, using soxhlet extractor with n-hexane as solvent. The oil yield were; 51.00% and 50.87% for melon and moringa respectively. The oils physicochemical parameters such as moisture content, density a...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/4425
Ethylene Diamine Tetra Acetic acid (EDTA) doped copper sulphate penta hydrate were grown for five different parent-dopant combinations using slow solvent evaporation method at 300 K and good optical quality crystals were harvested for minimum dopant ratio. The single crystal X-ra...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/5299
The determination of optimum catalyst concentration for biodiesel yield from Coconut (Cocos nucifera) oil was studied. The oil was transesterified using potassium methoxide as catalyst to obtain the crude biodiesel. The reaction was carried out at different catalyst concentration...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/3761
The mineralogical characterization was carried out to determine the major and minor constituents minerals present in the coastal sediment collected in and around Nagapattinum district Tamilnadu, India by FT-IR spectroscopy. The minerals were identified with the help of available...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/4265
The Kinetics investigation of uncatalysed oxidation of D-(+) galactose by cerium (IV) have been studied in an acidic medium in the temperature range 308-328K. The reaction has been found to be first order with respect to D-(+) galactose in an uncatalysed reaction. The effect of [...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/3877
Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the thermodynamics of the solvation of CaSO4 in mixed DMF-H2O at 301.15 K. The Gibbs free energies as very important thermodynamic property were evaluated for CaSO4 in mixed dimethylformamide (DMF)-H2O solvents at 301.15 K from the exp...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/4344
The inhibition effect of Plumeria rubra (PR) extracts on the corrosion of mild steel in industrial water medium was studied by mass loss, potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) methods. The results show that the protection efficiency increas...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/5397
A simple solid state metathetic synthesis has been developed for the preparation of BaSnO3 and BaZrO3 making use of BaCl2 along with Na2SnO3 and K2[ZrO(C2O4)2].3H2O as precursors. Phase pure compounds in each case were obtained at lower temperatures than those reported in litera...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/4147
To acquire a deeper understanding of surface chemistry of fly ash along with thermal activation, the states of mineral phases, water and –OH groups on silica are studied in fly ash at different calcination temperatures by DR/FTIR spectroscopic technique. DR/FTIR spectroscopy allo...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/4287