Rare earth elements (REE) naturally occur at trace levels in natural systems but, due to their increasing use modern technologies, they are now released into the environment, and considered as emerging contaminants. Therefore, development of numerical predictive models speciation various physico-chemical conditions is required predict behavior, transport potentially toxic effects on ecosystems....

It is well established that the major and minor element contents of chromites are subject to change during greenschist amphibolite facies metamorphism. During upper metamorphism, chromite can be completely converted chrome magnetite. However, not all elements affected same degree, concentrations +2 ions (e.g. Zn, Co, Mn) being particularly vulnerable modification. The degree which trace element...

Fluidized roasting is an efficient method to promote vanadium extraction from V-bearing mica in shale. In this study, the transformation behavior of sericite during fluidized was explored by combining experimental detections and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. TG-MS, XRD, FTIR, SEM-EDS were used investigate characteristics roasted samples. The crystal parameters calculated with Ma...

Ferric ion is a strength oxidant and its precipitation is an undesired phenomenon in the bioleaching process. Previous studies showed that it considerably occurs in bioleaching operations even at optimum conditions. Although there have been many reports on the Fe3+ precipitation, no study has made a mathematical modeling of the affecting parameters. The aim of the present work is the developmen...

In this study, highly ordered mesoporous silica material (SBA-15) functionalized with Diethyl 2 - (9 -fluorenyl) malonate as a flourophore is reported. The anchoring of flourophores to the hydroxyl group on SBA-15 surface was done with post synthesis method. The obtained materials were characterized by small and wide angle X-ray diffraction, N2 adsorption–desorption, Fourier transform infrared ...

In this research, dipeptide (his-β-alanine) and porphyrin derivatives were choosen for comparing chelating ability of toxic metals such as Al3+, Cu2+, Hg2+ and Pb2+ in vitro. The reason for choosing these two compounds is that both of them are naturally present in biological systems and comparison of chelating ability of these two compounds has not yet been done. Synthesis and comparison of kin...

The complexation of five recently synthesized hydroxy-thioxanthone derivatives with Al3+ ion was studied in a methanol solution spectrophotometrically, and the stepwise formation constants of the resulting 1:1 and 2:1 (ligand-to-metal) complexes were evaluated. The suitability of the thioxanthone derivatives as neutral ionophores for the preparation of a new Al3+ ion-selective PVC-membrane elec...

We examined the inhibitory action of the extract of Oren-gedoku-to, a traditional herbal medicine known to act as an antioxidant, on enzymatic lipid peroxidation in rat liver microsomes. Simultaneous addition of a spray-dried preparation of Oren-gedoku-to extract (Tsumura TJ-15) inhibited enzymatic lipid peroxidation induced by reduced beta-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) an...

The ferric-xylenol orange (FOX) method for measurement of hydroperoxides is based on a technique that employs reduction of peroxides in an acidic condition by Fe2+ and formation of the colored ferric-xylenol orange (XO/Fe3+) product with a peak at 560 nm. The 560 nm absorbance peak of XO/Fe3+ shifts to a 610 nm peak with high absorption intensity in the presence of phosphatidylcholine. This is ...