NEW NAMES OF JAPANESE PLANTS

detection of volatile compounds of medicinal plants with some nano-sorbents using modified or new methodologies and investigation of antioxidant activity of their methanolic extracts

in this work, a novel and fast method for direct analysis of volatile compounds (davc) of medicinal plants has been developed by holding a filament from different parts of a plant in the gc injection port. the extraction and analysis of volatile components of a small amount of plant were carried out in one-step without any sample preparation. after optimization of temperature, extraction time a...

Plants and geographical names in Croatia.

The main purpose of this paper is to present some general observations, regularities and insights into a complex relationship between plants and people through symbolic systems like geographical names on the territory of Croatia. The basic sources of data for this research were maps from atlas of Croatia of the scale 1:100000. Five groups of maps or areas were selected in order to represent mai...

New Mineral Names

The new mineral, the iron analogue of monticellite, occurs in melilite-nephelinite Iava from Mt. Shaheru, Belgian Congo, associated with melilite, nepheline, clinopyroxene, kalsilite, gdtzenite, combeite, sodalite, magnetite, perovskite, apatite, hornblende, biotite, and an unident i f ied mineral . Analysis gave SiO2 32.77,TiO20.23, AIzOa0.26, Fe2Oa 0.66, FeO 29 34, MnO 1.65, MgO 4.95, CaO 29....

New Mineral Names

1Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di degli Studi di Torino, Via Valperga Caluso, 35-10125 Torino, Italy 2Dipartimento Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Botticelli, 23-20133 Milano, Italy 3Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119071, Russia 4Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, 1-26 Earth Sciences Building, University ...

Mandragora and Belladonna – the Names of Two Magic Plants