Although the capacity of aluminium to prevent experimental silicosis in animals appears to be well established (Dworski, 1955), there is no adequate evidence at present that it can influence the course of silicosis in man. Moreover, it must be administered to man by inhalation and may not be entirely innocuous itself. Recently Marks, Mason, and Nagelschmidt (1956) have described a method for ev...

Silica biomineralization is a widespread phenomenon of major biotechnological interest. Modifying biosilica with substances like germanium (Ge) can confer useful new properties, although exposure to high levels of Ge disrupts normal biosilicification. No clear mechanism explains why this disruption occurs. Here, we study the effect of Ge on loricate choanoflagellates, a group of protists that c...

DETERMINATION OF SILICA OXIDE iron ores usually are found in intimate association with sllica and phosphorus compounds. heir quantitative separation and purification sometimes present difficult problems to the chemist. Silicic acids may represent various degrees of dehydration. They are exceedingly weak, but combine with metallic oxides and form some of the most stable , oxides in nature, the s...

Geochemical modeling using the basalt composition analyzed at the Vega 2 landing site indicates that intermediate to silicic liquids can be generated by fractional crystallization and equilibrium partial melting. Fractional crystallization modeling using variable pressures (0.01 GPa to 0.5 GPa) and relative oxidation states (FMQ 0 and FMQ -1) of either a wet (H2O = 0.5 wt%) or dry (H2O = 0 wt%)...