The specific elemental composition of industrial glass products influences several of its physical properties, such as heat and shock resistance, transparency, and chemical reactivity. Chemical analysis of glass samples is therefore required to support both R&D and production operations. Unfortunately, full elemental analysis of glass by a method like ICP-OES requires digestion with hazardous a...

A semiorganic crystal of zinc thiosemicarbazide sulfate (ZTSCS) has been grown aqueous solution by slow evaporation technique at room temperature. The material was subjected to various characterization techniques such as UV-Visible, non linear optical test, photoluminescence study, elemental analysis and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) techniques. Cut off wavelength and band gap of the grown ...

A series of β-diketone hydrazone derivatives have been synthesized through condensation of β-diketone with aromatic aldehydes followed by reaction with phenylhydrazine. The structure of the ligands and intermediates are well defined through elemental and spectroscopic analyses. These hydrazones are potential ligands toward lanthanide metal ions. New complexes of trivalent Scandium, Yttrium, Lan...

IBA methods were applied to measure elemental depth profiles of precursors and superconducting MgB2 thin films deposited on glassy carbon (Good Fellows) and sapphire (Al2O3) substrates. For each type of substrates we obtained a pair of samples i.e. one amorphous precursor and one superconducting film which were then characterized. A He beam was used to bombard both, precursors and superconducti...

The effects of different doses of Ukrain and/or strontium on the rat teeth intertubular dentine were analysed in cuts perpendicular to the dentinal tubes. To the dentine elemental analysis, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) equipped in XRF (X-ray fluorescence) microprobe was used. Strontium concentration increased from 4.1% in the control group to 5.0% and 6.3% for the groups administered with...

In the course of the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning debate, the issue of multifunctionality of species communities has recently become a major focus. Elemental stoichiometry is related to a variety of processes reflecting multiple plant responses to the biotic and abiotic environment. It can thus be expected that the diversity of a plant assemblage alters community level plant tissue chemis...

In this paper we focused on analysis of composition and elemental distribution (by SRIXE) in tissue structures of biological samples. We examined cancerous and non-cancerous prostate tissues. Successful determination of elemental concentration was very important for latter XANES measurements. A better understanding of the functionality of sulphur by the study of the spatial distribution, chemic...

Humans alter biogeochemical cycles of essential elements such as phosphorus (P). Prediction of ecosystem consequences of altered elemental cycles requires integration of ecology, evolutionary biology and the framework of ecological stoichiometry. We studied micro-evolutionary responses of a herbivorous rotifer to P-limited food and the potential consequences for its population demography and fo...

Environmental legislation requires that power plants monitor the composition of their ash as well as the impact of the emissions or possible re-usage of the ash on the environment. However, this elemental data has not been commonly used for evaluating workers’ exposure, which was our aim in this study. The results of this study showed equally high elemental median amounts, and estimated exposur...

INTRODUCTION............................ 97 CHEMICAL COMPOSITION............................ 98 Composition of Intact Organisms ............................ 98 Protein composition........................................................................ 98 Nucleic acid composition.................................................................... 98 Carbohydrate composition.........................