Chromite is widely distributed in the east and southeast of Afghanistan, especially in Logar Province. Chromite mineralization is podiform-type and is hosted in the stratigraphically lowest ultramafic rocks of the Logar Ophiolite Complex. This ophiolite complex represents a remnant of an early Cretaceous oceanic crust that was thrusted over a late Permian to Mid-Jurassic platform-type sequence ...

The recent Spitzer detections of the 9.7μm Si–O silicate emission in type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN) provide support for the AGN unification scheme. The properties of the silicate dust are of key importance to understand the physical, chemical and evolutionary properties of the obscuring dusty torus around the AGN. Compared to that of the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM), the 10μm silicat...

this review reports recent advances in the field of polymer–layered silicate nano composites. thesematerials have attracted both academic and industrial attention because they exhibit dramaticimprovement in properties at very low filler contents. herein, the structure, preparation andproperties of polymer–layered silicate nanocomposites are discussed in general, and finally the effectof clay na...

Water based inorganic alkali silicate binder of zinc rich primer was modified by adding acrylic resin derivatives. Several series of primer coatings were formulated by adding 5, 10 and 15 wt of acrylic and acrylic/styrene copolymer to potassium silicate binder and used as binder in zinc rich coatings. The formulated primers were applied on low carbon steel plates and the corrosion protection pr...

the asinawa iron ore is located about 3km to the southeast of penjween town, sulaimaniya governorate, kurdistan region, northeastern iraq near the iraq-iran border. the exposed iron ore deposit is about 60 and 400m wide and long respectively. the present study is the re-study of the geology and geochemistry of the asnawan iron ore deposit  and concluded that the country rocks are consist of hor...

We investigate Si(8)- and Si(16)-based silicate species via global optimisation searches and ab initio calculations and propose a new multi-mechanism interpretation of the experimentally observed atomic mixing of silicate oligomers in solution.

Introduction: Core formation processes in planets may impart stable isotope ratio signatures on the bulk silicate Earth due to partitioning between the metallic core and silicate [1]. Enstatite chondrites (E-chondrites) are the only primitive meteorite group with stable oxygen isotope compositions similar to Earth [2]. The Echondrites also possess a metal phase with substantial amounts of Si. W...

phosalone, malathion and diazinon were analyzed in corn oil using solid phase extraction (spe)with lanthanum silicate as a new solid sorbent followed by gas chromatography with nitrogenphosphorus detection (gc-npd). the efficiency of different eluents (methanol, dichloromethane,ethyl acetate, dichloromethane — ethyl acetate (1:1) and ethyl acetate — methanol (1:1)) werecompared for elution of o...

in this study, alkaline colloidal silica was prepared by titration of an alkaline solution such as sodium silicate with silicic acid in constant range of ph  .this constant range of ph was achieved by using concentrated soduim silicate solutions as ph adjusting solutions during titration.the sodium silicate solutions  having a variety of concentrations were passed  through ion-exchange resin to...

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