This research has examined the levels of four toxic elements (lead, cadmium, manganese and iron) from four different locations of onion farms in Aliero metropolis of Kebbi State Nigeria in West Africa. The metals were analysed by atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS). The concentr...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/10210
The present research work explains the dry sliding wear characteristics of thermally sprayed red mud and its composite coatings. Composite of red mud, fly ash and aluminium are plasma sprayed at 6, 9, 12 and 15 kW operating power levels. The coatings were experimented to study th...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/12691
The synthesis of the title compounds 5a-c has been accomplished by a Suzuki cross coupling reaction between arylbromide 3 and 5-Indole boronic acid to furnished precursor 4, which was used as a key intermediate for the synthesis of the preceding targets. Thus, treatment of 4 with...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/12036
In this paper synthesis and characterization of a new hybrid polymer composites reinforced with electroless nickel coated glass fiber with the addition of 0.5 % of nano iron oxide as filler is reported. Nano Iron oxide is introduced into the matrix as fillers at the minimum conce...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/12703
This work was carried out in order to study the possibility of using pinecones as inexpensive sorbent material for the removal of copper ions in solution. The experiment was carried out in the Department of Chemistry, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Batch adsorp...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/11115
This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of duck manure and spilled duck feed on water quality and production of Oreochromis niloticus in an integrated system with local duck breeds. Fish with an average body weight of 20.17±1.28g, were stocked into experimental ponds (are...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/11604
Floodplain soil sediment at Eke-Mgbom, Afikpo, Nigeria, was sampled and subjected to chemical fractionation to reveal the geochemical forms in which some trace metals existed. The investigation was conducted to evaluate the bioavailability of these metals to receptor organisms. T...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/11787
Corrosion Inhibition of phenolic extract of Gnetum africana on copper in 1.0 mol/dm3 ammonium hydroxide has been studied using gravimetric (weight-loss) and potentiodynamic polarization techniques. Inhibition efficiency increases with increase in inhibitor concentration, while co...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/11661
The present study aimed to investigate hydrogeochemistry and its suitability for drinking and irrigation purposes and to determine the contamination of estuary water of ship breaking activities in Sitakunda region, Chittagong, Bangladesh. The study was carried out by in-situ fiel...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/12364
The objective of this study was to investigate the experimental study and theoretical study of advanced photo oxidation using TiO2 as photo catalyst and to compare between these two studies. This work contains two parts, the first part was removing efficiency of an industrially i...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/7662
Unsteady magneto hydrodynamic heat and mass transfer flow of viscous, incompressible fluid flow over a stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium with variable viscosity and thermal conductivity have been analyzed, by taking into account viscous dissipation and chemical reactio...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/11972
Chelating ion-exchange resin was synthesized by the condensation of 8-hydroxyquinoline with pyrogallol using formaldehyde as a cross-linking agent at 120ºC in DMF in the presence of hydrocloric acid catalyst. The resin was characterized by elemental analysis and FTIR. The morphol...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/10877
Aim: To explore the ability of GRNN as a tool of structural elucidation in predicting the substituent types on myrcane, one of the representative skeletons of monoterpenoids. Methodology: Generalized regression neural network (GRNN) was used in the study. Carbon-13 (13C) NMR chem...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/11441
Laboratory synthesized 1-phenyl naphthoic acid systems (substituted naphthalenes or lignans) were evaluated for their antioxidant and antimicrobial potential. All the phenyl naphthoic acids showed significant to moderate antioxidant activity in DPPH (2, 2-diphenyl- 1-picrylhydra...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/7460
Heavy metal contents of some crops and farm soil irrigated along the Bindare stream in Chikaji Zaria were investigated. The results of the analysis indicate that the crops contained substantial amount of heavy metals (Pb, Cr, Zn and Fe) compared to similar crops irrigated far d...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/11858