the sources of groundwater pollution such as, industrial effluents, sewage and extensive farming have lead to agrochemical pollution. mathematical modeling helps to analyze the existing situation, allows forecasting, and to evaluate the effects of changes in the surrounding water quality. the present research has been focused mainly towards understanding the various processes affecting the tran...

The provision of efficient electron and ion transport is a critical issue in an exciting new group of materials based on lithium metal phosphates that are important as cathodes for lithium-ion batteries. Much interest centres on olivine-type LiFePO(4), the most prominent member of this family. Whereas the one-dimensional lithium-ion mobility in this framework is high, the electronically insulat...

Iron is an essential metal but can be toxic in excess. While several homeostatic mechanisms prevent oxygen-dependent killing promoted by Fe(II), little is known about how cells cope with Fe(III), which kills by oxygen-independent means. Several Gram-negative bacterial species harbour a regulatory system - termed PmrA/PmrB - that is activated by and required for resistance to Fe(III). We now rep...

The aim of this study is to elucidate the mechanism micropollutants’ removal in drinking water by application catalytic ozonation, using transition metals as appropriate catalysts. For that purpose, degradation 500 ?g/L p-chlorobenzoic acid (p-CBA) and benzotriazole with addition 2 mg/L ozone presence 1 Co(II) or Fe(II) at pH 7.8 were examined. It was found distilled experiments, both metal ion...

Neodymium-iron-boron alloy, Nd2Fe14B, is used as a material for magnets. Neodymium one of the valuable and expensive rare earth elements often recovered to reduce costs environmental impact. Recently, method recovering neodymium phosphate from mixed solutions was reported. This very useful because main component ores phosphates, there are well-established methods refining earths phosphates. stu...

The conservation of biodiverse wetland vegetation, including that of rich fens, has a high priority at a global scale. Although P-eutrophication may strongly decrease biodiversity in rich fens, some well-developed habitats do still survive in highly fertilized regions due to nutrient filtering services of large wetlands. The occurrence of such nutrient gradients is well-known, but the biogeoche...

Ten indigenous bacterial isolates were identified as efficient mineral phosphate solubilisers namely 7 strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae, 2 strains of Enterobacter aerogenes and 1 strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. All the ten strains were able to dissolve calcium phosphate (Ca-P), ferric phosphate (Fe-P) and aluminium phosphate (Al-P) efficiently. STMPSB 8 (Klebsiella pneumoniae) could be design...

The past decade has witnessed explosive development in the application of non-invasive spectroscopic techniques, and specifically of synchrotron-based EXAFS spectroscopy, to determine the local structure of poorly-crystallized solids, the crystal chemistry of substituted elements, and the sorption mechanism of metals in contact with the major contituants of soils and sediments (clays, Fe and Mn...

Iron absorption was measured from five kinds of bread made from various types of flour and fermented in different ways in order to obtain a wide variation in the content of fiber, phytate (inositol hexaphosphate) and its degradation products, inorganic phosphate and inositol phosphates with fewer numbers of phosphate groups (inositol pentaphosphate through monophosphate). Each experiment had 9-...

Introduction: Collision of planetesimals is a fundamental process of formation and evolution of planets. Shocked meteorites are the unique and important samples that provide us some information about collision histories in the solar system. Based on the shock me-tamorphic features, several studies estimated shock conditions of meteorites such as pressure, temperature and shock duration [e.g., 1...