Wei Li,1 Li Huang,1,* Raj Ganesh S. Pala,2,3 Guang-Hong Lu,4,5 Feng Liu,6 James W. Evans,7,8 and Yong Han7,8,† 1Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, People’s Republic of China 2Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, UP, 208016, India 3Material Science Programme, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur...

The preserved record of decay of now-extinct 129I into 129Xe forms the basis of the I-Xe chronometer. Comparison of the high precision I-Xe and Pb-Pb ages of chondrules and pure mineral phases separated from eight meteorites suggests the 17.5 ÷ 14.6 Ma range for the 129I half-life, assuming that the 235U and 238U half-lives are correct. The mean value of 16 Ma indicates that the 15.7 Ma half-li...

Since the advent of topological insulators hosting Dirac surface states, efforts have been made to gap these states in a controllable way. A new route to accomplish this was opened up by the discovery of topological crystalline insulators where the topological states are protected by crystal symmetries and thus prone to gap formation by structural changes of the lattice. Here we show a temperat...

This study investigated the impacts of two best management practices (BMPs) recommended by US Environmental Protection Agency on Pb weathering and leachability in shooting range soils. The two BMPs included replacing soil berm with sand berm and periodically removing bullets or shot from a berm. A column experiment corresponding to the first BMP was conducted by mixing the bullets with sand/soi...

We compare chemical and thermal analysis of the SPS Pb–Pb results at 158A GeV, and present a first chemical analysis of RHIC results. We show how a combined analysis of several strange hadron resonances can be used in a study of freeze-out dynamics.

The objective of this study was to evaluate stable Pb isotope signatures as a tracer for Pb contamination in Lake Andong. For Pb isotope analysis, we collected water and sediment from Lake Andong, particles in the air, soils, and stream water, mine tailings, sludge and wastewater from zinc smelting around lake Andong watershed. The results showed that Pb isotope ratios (Pb/Pb, Pb/Pb, and Pb/Pb)...

an agricultural waste i.e. rice husk has been used as a cheap adsorbent for the removal ofleadas a harmful heavy metal from contaminated water via adsorption. the adsorption capacity of rice husk was calculated by equilibrium models. the results showed that the adsorption process has the best accordance with langmuir model. the kinetics of the adsorption was also investigated and obtained that ...

The Pb region is characterised by the existence of collective octupole states. Here we populated such states in Pb + Pb deep-inelastic reactions. γ-ray angular distribution measurements were used to infer the octupole character of several E3 transitions. The octupole character of the 2318 keV 17− → 14 in Pb, 2485 keV 19/2− → 13/2 in Pb, 2419 keV 15/2− → 9/2 in Pb and 2465 keV 17/2 → 11/2− in Tl...

Lead isotope ratios are widely used to identify original sources of Pb in the environment. Such source apportionment depends on the ability to distinguish potential sources on the basis of their isotopic composition. However, almost all terrestrial Pb is co-linear in some of the plots i.e. (206)Pb/(208)Pb versus (206)Pb/(207)Pb and (206)Pb/(204)Pb versus (206)Pb/(207)Pb commonly presented in th...