Aims: To determine levels of Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), Tertiary butyl hydroquinone (TBHQ) in food items sold in supermarkets in Bindura town, Zimbabwe. Study Design: Reversed phase HPLC-UV quantitation. Place and Duration of Study: Department...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/10419
A simple HPLC with UV detection method is developed and validated for determination of Bovine Serum Albumin and Myoglobin proteins in a standard solution of the two protein as well as in a plasma spiked with theses two proteins. Separation was achieved on a reversed-phase C18, 5....
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/9391
Aims: The present study was aimed to investigate the adsorption capacity of Granular activated carbon (GAC) of coconut shell and coal ash for acidic dye. Methodology: Acid orange 7 dye is used as an adsorbate for the present study. Operating parameters such as pH, effective dosag...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/5772
In this paper, the angular dependence of the etching rate is applied in the three-dimensional simulations of the profile evolution during etching process. Etching rates are determined from the silicon symmetry properties by the interpolation technique using experimentally obtaine...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/8704
New heat resistant methylphenylsiloxane resins produced by methyltriethoxysilane and oligophenylsilsesquioxane acidolysis were investigated. The synthesized resins are characterized by narrow molecular-mass distribution, higher thermal and thermal oxidative stability, reduced gel...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/7257
Rheology is a simple analysis that is being more and applied to determine the physical behavior of solutions, suspensions and mixtures. The basic parameter, obtained in the rheological study of liquid foods, is viscosity, used to characterize the fluid texture. Rheology is concer...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/9586
Fatty acids (FAs) play an important role in physiological functions. Hence, separation and isolation of FAs is of great industrial importance. With the intension of finding out effective means of separating different forms of lipid constituents, two studies were carried out. In t...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/9869
Reverse phase high-performance liquid chromatographic method that allows the determination of the preservative benzoic acid is described. Separations were affected by using an initial mobile phase of methanol–acetate buffer (pH 4.4), (35:65). Separation of benzoic acid is achieve...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/8720
NiO nanoparticles were synthesized by water-in-oil microemulsion technique using Aerosol-OT as a surfactant. The study aims to understand the nanoparticle size and distribution synthesized with the surfactant and co-precipitated without surfactant. Nanoparticles were synthesized...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/8538
In this research work the level of the metals: Pb, Cd, Zn, and Cu were determined in soil samples collected within Maiduguri Metropolis. Samples were collected from places of high anthropogenic activity such as automobile maintenance workshop (AMW), Car park or Bus stops (CP), an...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/9924
The very sensitive, fairly selective direct spectrophotometric method is presented for the rapid determination of silver at ultra-trace level using1, 5-diphenylthiocarbazone (dithizone) as a new micellar spectrophotometric reagent ( max= 495 nm) in a slightly acidic (0.1-1.0 M H2...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/8157
Aim: To isolate, characterize and ascertain the anti-lipid peroxidation activity of a chromene propanoic acid from the stem bark of Brachystegia eurycoma Harms. Study Design: The study was designed to search, isolate and elucidate the structure of a novel compound and then test i...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/8594
The isopropanolic extract of the leaves of Psidium guajava Linn was analyzed by Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Fourteen different phytochemical compounds have been characterized, including 1, 3, 3-trimethyl-2-oxabicyclo [2.2.2] octane, (2.06%), 4, 11, 11-trimethyl-...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/8592
The study assesses the physico-chemical parameters and metal concentrations in drinking water from different sources in New Bussa, Niger State, North Central Nigeria. Triplicate Water samples were collected from 12 sampling points located all over the town including a well, boreh...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/7289
The liquid water-metal interface and the liquid water-gas interface, both play an important role in the initiation and the development of the electrical discharge in the gas bubbles. Evidence from the environmental application studies supports the strong dependence of the dischar...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/8550