A comparative study of formaldehyde (HCHO) fumigation was carried out by controlled vaporization, using an electric vapor generator, and by the Formalin-permanganate method. Determination of vapor levels as well as bactericidal action showed the generator to be more effective. Maximum achievable fumigant levels were temperature dependent and related to the equilibrium vapor concentration of HC...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) may frequently contaminate groundwater and pose threat to human health when migrating into the unsaturated soil zone and upward to the indoor air. The kinetic of chemical oxidation has been investigated widely for dissolved VOCs in the saturated zone. But, so far there have been few studies on the use of in situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) of vapour phase contami...

Kinetics of oxidation of L-citrulline (Cit) by permanganate ion in both acidic and basic media has been investigated spectrophtometrically at constant ionic strengths and at 25°C. In both media the reactions exhibited first order dependence in [permanganate] and less than unit order dependences in L-citrulline concentration. A fractional-second order dependence with respect to [H + ] and a frac...

A LTHOUGH MANY METHODS have been published for the determination of pregnanediol in urine, we found none of them fully satisfactory. The first gravimetric method (1), and colorimetric methods derived from this one (2, 3), are rather unspecific, because, especially under pathologic conditions, fairly large amounts of similar compounds are found in the so-called pregnanediol fraction. Determinati...

Noscapine is an antitussive drug and possesses potent antitumor activity. This work establishes a highly sensitive method for its determination by flow injection chemiluminescence (CL) technique. This method is based on its strong sensitizing effect on the weak CL reaction between sulfite and acidic permanganate. The mechanism for the sensitizing process is proposed on the basis of fluorescence...