Plants have need for about 18 essential nutrients. Of these essential nutrients, several are classified as trace metals, namely: zinc, iron, manganese, copper, boron, molybdenum, cobalt, and nickel. In addition, other trace metals commonly exist in soil that can be taken up, such as arsenic, chromium, iodine, selenium, and others. Some of these elements are more or less inert in the plant and o...

We report the clearly observed tunneling magnetoresistance at 5 K in magnetic tunnel junctions with Co-doped ZnO as a bottom ferromagnetic electrode and Co as a top ferromagnetic electrode prepared by pulsed laser deposition. Spin-polarized electrons were injected from Co-doped ZnO to the crystallized Al2O3 and tunnelled through the amorphous Al2O3 barrier. Our studies demonstrate the spin pola...

Trace minerals are required for essentially all biochemical processes in the body. Many of these minerals are necessary for optimal growth, physiologic function, and productivity in animals. This paper focuses on 8 trace minerals: cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), iodine (I), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), molybdenum (Mo), selenium (Se), and zinc (Zn). These trace minerals have been chosen because nutritio...

The low-grade rock phosphate of Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh (India), was investigated for its possible application in the removal of lead, copper, zinc and cobalt ions from aqueous solutions. Effects of contact time, amount of adsorbent and initial concentration of metal ions were studied. Adsorption of heavy metal ions was found to follow the order: Pb2+ > Cu2+ > Zn2+ > Co2+. The probable mechanism...

The IR and UV absorption spectra of the ammonium salt of cupferrone and manganese, cobalt, nickel, copper and zinc divalent cupferrate complexes are investigated. The IR absorption bands identified in the region 400-4000 cm '1 are given and assigned, especially those three related to M -0 vibrations. In the UV absorption spectrum of the cupferrone m etal complexes a characteristic shift in the ...

The carcinogenic properties of selected metals and their compounds are reviewed to provide a useful reference for existing knowledge on relationships between physical and chemical forms, kinetics and carcinogenic potential and between epidemiology, bioassays, and short-term tests. Extensive consideration is given to arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, lead, and nickel. Other metals such as a...

Chelates are used in cancer as cytotoxic agent, as radioactive agent in imaging studies and in radioimmunotherapy. Various chelates based on ruthenium, copper, zinc organocobalt, gold, platinum, palladium, cobalt, nickel and iron are reported as cytotoxic agent. Monoclonal antibodies labeled with radioactive metals such as yttrium-90, indium-111 and iodine-131 are used in radioimmunotherapy. Th...

Cobalt(ll), copper(ll), nickel(ll) and zinc(ll) metal complexes of 2-carboxybenzylidene thienoylhydrazide HL(1) and 2-carboxybenzylidene furenoylhydrazide HL(2) of the type [M(L)(2).Cl(2)] have been prepared where M = Co(ll) and Ni(ll) and L = HL(1) and HL(2) (Fig 1) and characterized by their physical, analytical and spectral studies. The different mode of chelation of the ligands with metals ...

Clostridium perfringens alpha toxin is the main lethal toxin which has been identified as an enzyme, phospholipase C (EC 3.1.4.3) (8). C. perfringens requires meat digest to produce the toxin in large quantity (1, 7, 22). Factors affecting the production of the toxin were studied in a chemically defined medium (11-13). A large quantity of L-arginine (10 mg/ml ) and controlled quantities of L-cy...

Nanoparticles of Zinc substituted Cobalt ferrite powders having general formula ZnxCo1-xFe2O4 (x = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0) have been produced by using analytical grade nitrates and hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) as structure directing reagent via Chemical co-precipitation method. The morphology prepared polycrystalline nanoparticles were investigated X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier...