The study has investigated the feasibility of using siderite-coated quartz sand and/or hematite-coated quartz sand columns for removing As from water. Arsenic-spiked tap water and synthetic As solution with As concentrations from 200 to 500 mug/L were used for the experiments. Since three coating methods employed to prepare siderite-coated quartz sand and hematite-coated quartz sand had no sign...

a r t i c l e i n f o Increasing use of diffraction methods to study preferred orientation of minerals has established that quartz in deformed rocks not only displays characteristic c-axis orientation patterns, but that there is also generally a distinct difference in the orientation of positive and negative rhombs. In the trigonal quartz crystal structure positive and negative rhombs are struc...

The diffusive behavior of argon in quartz was investigated with three analytical depth profiling methods: Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy (RBS), 213 nm laser ablation, and 193 nm (Excimer) laser ablation on the same set of experimental samples. The integration of multiple depth profiling methods, each with different spatial resolution and sensitivity, allows for the cross-checking of met...

In 1997, the IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) reevaluated its quartz classification from a class 2 carcinogen, to that of a class 1, stating sufficient evidence for carcinogenicity in both humans and experimental animals. However, tumor development did not occur across all occupational settings. It is probable that this is due to the considerable differences in toxicity betwee...

introduction arefi quartz-bearing conglomerate (middle jurassic) is situated within binalud structural zone. the unit is trending nw-se located 25 km south of mashhad. more than 97% of the pebbles are quartz as mono-crystalline, poly-crystalline, and minor fragments of chert, quartzite, and mica schist. less that 3% of the remaining minerals are feldspar, mica, chlorite, hornblende, tourmaline,...

The general theory in Pitteri (2003), to be recalled here for completeness, is used to study the full kinematics of β-quartz with special reference to its geometric and arithmetic symmetry. Describing the related decompositions of the β-quartz configuration space into irreducible invariant subspaces is the starting point for the analysis of the generic weak phase transitions of β-quartz under c...

Respirable quartz has been classified as a human lung carcinogen (IARC, 1997). However, the mechanisms involved in quartz-induced carcinogenesis remain unclear. The aim of the present study was to investigate acute DNA damage in epithelial lung cells from rats exposed to quartz. Since surface reactivity is considered to play a crucial role in the toxicity of quartz, the effect of surface modify...

This paper presents one wafer level packaging approach of quartz resonator based on through-silicon via (TSV) interposer with metal or polymer bonding sealing of frequency components. The proposed silicon-based package of quartz resonator adopts several three-dimensional (3D) core technologies, such as Cu TSVs, sealing bonding, and wafer thinning. It is different from conventional quartz resona...

Macrophages play an essential role in pulmonary host defense. We investigated differences between rat alveolar (AM) and interstitial (IM) macrophages after exposure in vivo to quartz, an inducer of intensive alveolitis. Rats were exposed to 0.5 ml of saline without ( n = 8) or with ( n = 8) 10 mg of quartz by intratracheal instillation. In a third group ( n = 8), 10 mg of surfactant were added ...