In this study, a performance evaluation of an aluminium oxide modified onion skin waste (Al2O3/OSW) for the removal heavy metal ions (Pb2+ and Cd2+) from aqueous solution was investigated under batch mode adsorption. The surface morphology, elemental composition, functional groups, textural characteristics charge as-made Al2O3/OSW adsorbent were examined using SEM, EDX, FTIR, BET area pHpzc tec...

An intermittent on-line concentration and separation system coupled with HG-AFS was developed to eliminate serious interferences from Cu2+, Pb2+ and Zn2+ on the determination of cadmium. In the present method, the interferences from common coexisting ions, such as Cu2+, Pb2+, Zn2+, Fe3+ and Ni2+, were greatly reduced. Under the optimized conditions, a detection limit of 3 pg ml(-1) (3sigma, n=1...

Exposure of adipocytes of rats to CdCl2 caused acceleration of [3-3H]glucose incorporation into lipid maximally at 500 microM in Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate buffer, pH 7.4, containing 0.2% albumin. T.l.c. of the lipids extracted from adipocytes showed that Cd2+ increased labelling of di- and tri-[14C]acylglycerols predominantly. With increasing concentrations of glucose the apparent Km value was n...

direct orthogonal signal correction(dosc) and savitzky-golay filters (sgf) were applied as preprocessing methods on the original and first derivative absorbance data. principle component regression (pcr), partial least squares (pls) and iterative target transformation factor analysis (ittfa), were used in spectrophotometric simultaneous determination of heavy divalent metal ions, lead, zinc,mer...

Dopamine is the most essential monoaminergic neurotransmitter involved in pathophysiology of neurodegenerative disorders, and its autoxidation has been recognized as one potential trigger factors for dopaminergic neuron loss. The cyclization dopamine o-quinone was shown to be irreversible rate-limiting step reaction at physiologic pH values. Furthermore, various metal ions such Al3+, Fe3+, Fe2+...

The toxic effect of metal ions like chromium (Cr3+), cobalt (Co2+), nickel (Ni2+), copper (Cu2+), cadmium (Cd2+) and lead (Pb2+) on biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) of synthetic wastewater samples has been studied at different temperatures i.e., 15 degrees C, 20 degrees C, 25 degrees C and 30 degrees C. Experiments were conducted for BOD exertion in presence (10 ppm of each metal ion) and in the...