background soil pollution due to toxic metals released by industrial activities such as cement production is a serious problem from the standpoints of the environment and public health, because they tend to persist, circulating indefinitely and, eventually, accumulating throughout the food chain. objectives this paper presents the results of the first research study into the distribution of cad...

Measurements of the densities of the molecular and atomic ions (nH, nH2, nH3) were carried out in hydrogen recombination plasma in the linear divertor plasma simulator, TPD-SheetIV. The molecular and atomic ion currents were detected using an omegatron mass analyzer. The ground-state vibrational temperature of hydrogen molecules Tvib is obtained by measurement with VUV emission spectroscopy. Ta...

This paper introduces recent optical measurements of radicals in atmospheric pressure non-thermal plasma. Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF), laser absorption, and optical emission spectroscopy (OES) techniques have been applied for density and temperature measurements of OH radicals, NO molecules, ozone, atomic oxygen, atomic nitrogen, and N2( A3Σ u ) metastables in pulsed corona and pulsed diel...

The deficiency of calcium, magnesium, potassium, and iron leads to severe disorders in human body organs. This study introduces Dooshab as a food source of these useful elements. The Dooshab which translates to grape syrup is widely used in Iran. In the traditional method of the Dooshab production, the white soil is added to the grape juice and the mixture is boiled. After cooling, it is fi...

The research work presented in this paper focuses on qualitative tissue differentiation by monitoring the intensity ratios of atomic emissions using 'Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy' (LIBS) on the plasma plume created during laser tissue ablation. The background of this study is to establish a real time feedback control mechanism for clinical laser surgery systems during the laser ablation...

The effects of aspirin, vitamin B(12) and warfarin as potential blockers of the ruthenium binding sites in HSA were investigated through UV/visible, circular dichroism (CD), fluorescence spectroscopy and the inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy ICP(AES). The studies on the interactions of several biologically relevant molecules with HSA have shown that drugs like aspirin or w...

Highlights of interesting astrophysical discoveries are reviewed in the context of high resolution X-ray spectroscopy made possible with Chandra and XMM-Newton , and its relevance to atomic physics calculations and measurements is discussed. These spectra have shown that the overlap between astrophysics and atomic physics is stronger than ever, as discoveries of new X-ray lines and edge structu...

We introduce bicircular high-harmonic spectroscopy as a new method to probe dynamical symmetries of atoms and molecules and their evolution in time. Our approach is based on combining a circularly polarized femtosecond fundamental field of frequency ω with its counterrotating second harmonic 2ω. We demonstrate the ability of bicircular high-harmonic spectroscopy to characterize the orbital angu...

Chemical charging of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and graphenes to generate soluble salts shows great promise as a processing route for electronic applications, but raises fundamental questions. The reduction potentials of highly-charged nanocarbon polyelectrolyte ions were investigated by considering their chemical reactivity towards metal salts/complexes in forming metal nanopartic...

Three strains of Escherichia coli, one strain of environmental mold, and one strain of Candida albicans yeast have been analyzed by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy using nanosecond laser pulses. All microorganisms were analyzed while still alive and with no sample preparation. Nineteen atomic and ionic emission lines have been identified in the spectrum, which is dominated by calcium, magn...