Sorption data were obtained with a Matawan soil and the following chromium (III) organic complexes: chromium (III) ascorbate, chromium (III) glutamate, chromium (III) histidine, chromium (III) mandelate, chromium (III) citrate, chromium (III) cysteine, chromium (III) serine, chromium (III) pyruvate and chromium (III) oxalate. The influence of pH (2-12), ionic strength (0.005-1 M) and concentrat...

In this work the removal of atrazine herbicide from aqueous medium was investigated using different catalysts based on activated carbon impregnated iron or chromium oxides. The materials were characterized by powder XRD, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). The characterization showed the formation of small particle size goethite (α-FeOOH) phase on activated carb...

Metal sulfides are widely used in a variety of applications requiring high hardness and toughness. In this study, the microstructure and mechanical properties of chromium–chromium sulfide cermets are investigated. The chromium–chromium sulfide cermet was manufactured using self-propagating high-temperature synthesis, a process where the material is created under a self-sustaining combustion rea...

Summarization of electronic discussion fora is a unique challenge; techniques that work startlingly well on monolithic documents tend to fare poorly in this informal setting. Additionally, conventional techniques ignore much of the structures that have the potential to serve as valuable features in the summarization task. We present several novel examples of such features, including the catalys...

The in vivo binding of chromium to whole chromatin, polynucleosomes, DNA, and cytoplasmic RNA-protein fraction from liver and kidney was examined after treatment of rats with sodium dichromate and chromium(III) chloride. Significant amounts of chromium were bound to DNA and the nonhistone proteins of chromatin and to cytoplasmic RNA-protein fraction. The binding of chromium to the nuclear and c...

Common sources of chromium in wastewater are electroplating and leather industries. Hexavalent chromium is more toxic and carcinogenic compared to its trivalent counterpart. Conversion of Cr (VI) to Cr (III) in an aqueous medium both by chemical reduction using zerovalent iron and by photocatalytic reduction using UV radiation and ZnO semiconductor has been investigated using potassium dichroma...

A series of diazachromocenes with sterically demanding pyrrolyl ligands, 2,5-(Me3C)2C4H2N (1), 2,5-(Me3C)2-3,4-Me2C4N (2) and 2,3,5-(Me3C)3C4HN (3), was prepared and investigated by various spectroscopic techniques, and in some cases by X-ray diffraction and magnetic susceptibility studies. The diazachromocenes exhibit an S = 1 ground state; no indication of a spin-equilibrium was obtained. Wit...