Clay-mineralogy study of Taiwanese river-mouth sediments, recent deep-water seafloor sediments around Taiwan, along with collected from the Tainan shelf edge, have been investigated to access source and transport detrital fine-grained sediments. We determined clay mineralogy in both hemipelagites turbidites top 50 cm deep-sea sediment cores infer how are dispersed through river-fed turbidity cu...

-The adsorption of Ni(II) and Cu(II) on to the clay minerMs kaolinite, chlorite, and illite has been investigated. The quantity of Ni(II) at pH 6 and Cu(II) at pH 5 adsorbed has been found to vary in the manner chlorite > illite > kaolinite. Examination of the mode of bonding of the metal ions to the clay minerals using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) has been carried out. Comparison of ...

Two types of pure cellulose, Avicel PH-101 and Whatman filter paper, were treated with an acid-chlorite delignification procedure in the presence of varying amounts of incorporated lignin, and the molecular weight distributions and degrees of polymerization (DP) of derivatized cellulose were determined by gel permeation chromatography (GPC). Avicel samples with 0% added lignin showed a DP reduc...

Bolaang Mongondow is located on the Eastern North arm of Sulawesi. This area a Neogene-aged magmatic arc composed plutonic and volcanic rocks that indicate mineralization-bearing host rocks. The study aimed to determine geological setting alteration based observations geochemical analysis. method used mapping, followed by laboratory studio data lithology this andesite, diorite, pyroclastic brec...

The Japanese ASTER sensor on board the US Terra satellite was launched in December 1999 to establish a spaceborne capability for high spatial, multispectral visible-shortwave infrared and thermal infrared remote sensing data mapping of the Earth’s environment. The Mt Fitton test site in South Australia was chosen to test the ability of the ASTER instrument for geological mapping having been pre...

This work investigated the potential for biocatalytic degradation of micropollutants, focusing on chlorine oxyanions as model contaminants, by mining biology to identify promising biocatalysts. Existing isozymes of chlorite dismutase (Cld) were characterized with respect to parameters relevant to this high volume, low-value product application: kinetic parameters, resistance to catalytic inacti...