Drinking water contamination by fluoride is recognized as a major public health problem in many parts of the world. In fact, although fluoride is an essential trace element for animals and humans, excessive fluoride intake may cause adverse health effects. In this study we investigated the potential of a natural, high alumina content, bauxite for the removal of fluoride from contaminated water....

[1] We seek a better understanding of the distribution of subsurface ice on Mars, based on the physical processes governing the exchange of vapor between the atmosphere and the subsurface. Ground ice is expected down to 49 latitude and lower latitudes at poleward facing slopes. The diffusivity of the regolith also leads to seasonal accumulation of atmospherically derived frost at latitudes pole...

A variety of techniques to measure matric potential or water potential in the laboratory and in the field are described in this section. The techniques described herein require equilibration of some medium whose matric or water potential can be determined from previous calibration or can be measured directly. Under equilibrium conditions the matric or water potential of the medium is equal to t...

content (Keren et al., 1985). The range of tolerance for both sensitive and tolerant plants to soil solution This work considered the aqueous speciation of B between a soil B concentration is 0.028 to 1.39 mmol L 1. Plants are solution containing B and the tetrahedral surface B species (SH3 BOH 4 during drying of the soil. The aqueous B species were boric not sensitive to adsorbed B. Adsorption...

The effect of the amount of pore generating agent (polyvinylpyrrolidone) added to standard polymer membranes containing 18 wt.% of polyethersulfone on the physicochemical properties of the membranes and their capacity for removal of iron and copper ions from the liquid phase was studied. The membranes were obtained by the phase inversion method. The results have shown that the modification of p...

The moisture sorption isotherm of pea starch films prepared with various glycerol contents as plasticizer was investigated at different storage relative humidities (11%-96% RH) and at 5 ± 1, 15 ± 1, 25 ± 1 and 40 ± 1 °C by using gravimetric method. The results showed that the equilibrium moisture content of all films increased substantially above aw = 0.6. Films plasticized with glycerol, under...

Equilibrium structures are fundamental entities in molecular sciences. They can be inferred from experimental data by complicated inverse procedures which often rely on several assumptions, including the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. Theory provides a direct route to equilibrium geometries. A recent high-quality ab initio semiglobal adiabatic potential-energy surface (PES) of the electronic g...

Nir Goldman,† Raymond S. Fellers,‡ Claude Leforestier,§ and Richard J. Saykally*,† Department of Chemistry, UniVersity of California, Berkeley, California 94720-1416, Yahoo!, 3420 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, California 95051, Laboratoire Structure et Dynamique des Systèmes Moléculaire et Solides (UMR 5636), CC 014, UniVersité des Sciences et Techniques du Langue-doc, 34095 Montpellier Céde...

Radiative equilibrium and radiative (:onvective temperature profiles fiw the Earth's evolving atmosphere have been cah.ulated. If the atmosphere evolved from one rich in carbon dioxide, and deficient in oxygen, to its present composilion, the temperature structure showed considerable change. The models of 3 to 4 billi(m years ago display steadily decreasing temperatures with altitude, being 185...