Kaolin from the Buwambo deposit, located about 27 km north of Kampala (Uganda), has been analyzed for its mineralogical and chemical composition. The kaolin is derived from granite of the basement, which is exposed due to deeply weathered Buganda-Toro cover rocks. Kaolinite is the dominant mineral, with quartz and muscovite/illite as accessory minerals. Chemical data show that the kaolin is com...

BACKGROUND Although geophagia (earth eating) has been observed and documented in many areas of the world, the specific preference for consuming kaolin is less well known. The ingestion of kaolin, also known as white dirt, chalk, or white clay, is a relatively common type of pica found in the central Georgia Piedmont area. METHODS We reviewed the literature, made informal contacts with Georgia...

-Six well-characterized soil kaolins from widely separated sites in south-western Australia and four reference kaolins were studied by 57Fe M6ssbauer spectroscopy at room temperature after removal of non-structurally-bound iron with dithionite-citrate-bicarbonate solution. The soil kaolins and one of the reference kaolins were also studied at temperatures near 16 K. The soil kaolins were remark...

In this work, a novel superabsorbent hydrogel composite based on collagen have been prepared via graft copolymerization of methacrylic acid (MAA) in the presence of kaolin powder by using methylenebisacrylamide (MBA) as a crosslinking agent and ammonium persulphate (APS) as an initiator. A proposed mechanism for hydrogel formation was suggested and the structure of the composite was established...

In this research, zeolite Na-Y was synthesized from Kaolin without an organic template under the non-hydrothermal condition to adsorb sulfur compound. Model fuel desulfurization was optimized by employing the Box-Behnken experimental design with 2 center points, the three parameters, and one response value. The objective was to find how sorption capacity is related to alkali fusion temperat...

This work deals with geopolymers based on local Jordanian resources, namely, kaolin and zeoltitic (phillipsite) tuff. The geopolymers were prepared from these two materials by a reaction with an alkali solution at 80oC. The research group of the present work has demonstrated in previous work that addition of zeolitic tuff to kaolin based-geopolymers increases the adsorption capacity toward Cu(I...

Purified bovine factor XII was radiolabeled with iodine-125 and its binding to kaolin studied. Binding was rapid and was not readily reversible upon adding unlabeled factor XII. The optimum pH for binding was in the region of pH 5-7. The isoelectric point of factor XII was pH 5.7. High concentrations of urea or increasing the ionic strength of the medium did not inhibit binding. Polyvalent macr...

in order to prevent the shrinkage of olive fruit and maintain its fresh being, and  also to increase the oil content and dry matter, the effect of kaolin at three levels of application (0, 2.5% and 5%) on four varieties of olive (mission, conservolea, keillet, blady) was evaluated within a period of four months, in ahwaz, the tests being repated in 3 replicates. results revealed significant eff...

Kaolin particles are usually ̄aky in shape. In the present study, kaolin powder compacts were prepared by applying the diepressing technique. The kaolin ̄akes tend to lie down on the plane which is perpendicular to the die-pressing direction. The powder compact thus shows anisotropic shrinkage after ®ring. A series of phase transformations take place as the kaolin is ®red at elevated temperatur...

The problem of optimal economic operation of hydrothermal electric power systems is solved using powerful continuation method. While in conventional approach, fixed generation voltages are used to avoid convergence problems, in the proposed algorithm, they are treated as variables so that better solutions can be obtained. The algorithm is tested for a typical 5-bus and 17-bus New Zealand networ...