This study investigated the partitioning of uranyl within a quaternary system made up of uranyl, citrate, goethite, and the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens. In the absence of cells, uranyl was sorbed to goethite as a complex involving surface groups and/or citrate. Measurements of the evolution of CO2 indicated that the addition of bacterial cells lead to the gradual biodegradation of citrate...

DNAzymes are known to bind metal ions specifically to carry out catalytic functions. Despite many studies since DNAzymes were discovered nearly two decades ago, the metal-binding sites in DNAzymes are not fully understood. Herein, we adopt uranyl photocleavage to probe specific uranyl-binding sites in the 39E DNAzyme with catalytically relevant concentrations of uranyl. The results indicate tha...

Ferrous fumarate (Fersamal) and ferrous carbonate (Ferrodic) may produce false-positive results with the orthotolidine tablet tests (Occultest and Hematest) if administered to patients being investigated for alimentary bleeding. Misleading results are also likely if the benzidine test is employed as a filter-paper procedure. Ferrous sulphate, gluconate, succinate, iron and ammonium citrate, and...

Easily prepared nanoZnO was found to be as an efficient catalyst in the synthesis of 1,4-DHPs via four-component reaction of 1,3-dicarbonyls, aldehydes and ammonium carbonate in water at 60 °C. The prepared nanoZnO was characterized by XRD and FT-IR analysis, while the determined specific surface area of nano catalyst by BET method was 33 m2/g.

Easily prepared nanoZnO was found to be as an efficient catalyst in the synthesis of 1,4-DHPs via four-component reaction of 1,3-dicarbonyls, aldehydes and ammonium carbonate in water at 60 °C. The prepared nanoZnO was characterized by XRD and FT-IR analysis, while the determined specific surface area of nano catalyst by BET method was 33 m2/g.

The crystal structure of bergenite, ideally Ca2Ba4[(UO2)3O2(PO4)2]3(H2O)16, monoclinic, space group P21/c, a 10.092(1), b 17.245(2), c 17.355(2) Å, 113.678(2)°, V 2766.2(3) Å3, Z = 2, Dcalc 4.82 g/cm3, was solved by direct methods and refined by full-matrix least-squares techniques on the basis of F2 to agreement indices R1 of 5.0% calculated for 4118 unique observed reflections (|Fo| ≥ 4 F), a...

With synthetic wastewater, lab-scale batch experiments and column experiments were carried out to investigate the adsorption characteristics of ammonium ion by zeolite 13X which is a hydrothermally synthetic byproduct accompanied with preparation of potassium carbonate from insoluble potash ores. The Langmuir and Freundlich models were applied to describe the equilibrium isotherms for ammonium ...