Chlorinated aromatic compounds are important raw materials or intermediates in many industries, but they highly toxic and difficult to degrade the natural environment. Electrocatalytic dechlorination technology can transform chlorinated with high toxicity into substances low easy degradation, so it has broad application prospects. Compared other metal catalysts, Pd-based catalysts have highest ...

Microstructured optical fibers can be precisely tailored for many different applications, out of which sensing has been found to be particularly interesting. However, placing silica optical fiber sensors in harsh environments results in their quick destruction as a result of the hydrolysis process. In this paper, the degradation mechanism of bare and metal-coated optical fibers at high temperat...

Minerals, like vitamins, are a group of important nutrients. Although they make up only 4 % of body weight they are a part of every tissue, fluid, cell and organ in the human body. There is significant evidence that minerals, by themselves and in proper balance to one another, have important biochemical and nutritional functions (Pike and Brown, 1984). There are twenty minerals that are conside...

Yogurt, a traditional Turkish dairy product is common in all region of Turkey. The different heavy metals were determined in commercial yogurts by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP–OES). Concentrations of calcium (Ca), phosphorus (P), sodium (Na), magnesium (Mg), aluminum (Al), zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), boron (B), molybdenum (Mo), cadmium (Cd...

The density determination of a small solid object with a mass of only a few hundred milligrams is always a difficult and often an ellusive measurement. The advent of highly accurate hydrostatic weighing techniques and the density scale based on solid objects are utilized in a two liquid float method presented here that incorporates the advantages of this technology. The resulting measurement is...

Ash from pig manure treated by combustion and thermal gasification was characterized and compared in terms of nutrient, i.e., potassium (K), phosphorus (P) and heavy metal, i.e., cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni) and zinc (Zn) contents. Total nutrient and metal concentrations were measured using energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis. Acid (HNO3, H2SO4) and water-extr...

The presence of cupric ions or ferric ions was found to enhance the development of color in the indole reaction for the calorimetric determination of deoxyribonucleic acid. The addition of calcium, cobaltous, magnesium, manganous, nickel, or zinc ions did not produce this effect. In the absence of added cupric ions, the indole reaction gave variable results, and the color developed to less than...