Determination of 11 metals (including arsenic, chromium, mercury, iron, copper, nickel, zinc, selenium, lead, cadmium, and thallium) in UK-consumed dietary supplements was carried out using ICP-MS. The instrument used was the Agilent 7500ce, which is equipped with a collision/ reaction cell (Octopole Reaction System), and was operated in no-gas, helium, and hydrogen modes, all acquired within a...

Many hazardous chemicals are commonly used in drycleaning shops to remove garment stains. Workers performing stain removal may be exposed to these toxic chemicals through skin absorption, eye contact, or inhalation of vapors. The primary hazard is dermatitis from chronic or acute exposure. Dilute hydrofluoric acid, found in some products that remove rust stains, may cause severe chemical burns ...

1.1 Manufacturing processes Major industries with exposure to strong inorganic acid mists include those that manufacture phosphate fertilizer, isopropanol (isopropyl alcohol), synthetic ethanol (ethyl alcohol), sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and lead batteries. Exposure also occurs during copper smelting, and pickling and other acid treatment of metals (Suresh, 2009). Minor uses of sulfuric acid i...

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Dissociation of an acid molecule in aqueous media is one of the most fundamental solvation processes but its details remain poorly understood at the distinct molecular level. Conducting high-pressure treatments of an open-cage fullerene C70 derivative with hydrogen fluoride (HF) in the presence of H2O, we achieved an unprecedented encapsulation of H2O·HF and H2O. Restoration of the opening yiel...

We study the quasiparticle band structure of isolated, infinite (HF)(infinity) and (HCl)(infinity) bent (zigzag) chains and examine the effect of the crystal field on the energy levels of the constituent monomers. The chains are one of the simplest but realistic models of the corresponding three-dimensional crystalline solids. To describe the isolated monomers and the chains, we set out from th...

The voluminous literature on the methods of cysteine determination has been reviewed by several authors (l-3). Most of the proposed methods will not differentiate between cysteine and cysteine-containing peptides. The Sullivan method with its numerous modifications (4, 5)) though widely used, has not yet, however, evolved to an entirely satisfactory procedure (3). The absorption of cysteine in ...

Rings and split rings of sub-micrometer size are prepared by the infiltration of colloidal crystals of spherical silica particles with diameters of about 1 lm by diluted solutions of tetrachloroauric acid in butanone, followed by the evaporation of the butanone, the annealing of the samples at elevated temperatures and the removal of the silica spheres with hydrofluoric acid. X-ray photoelectro...

Electroplated magnetic films have been integrated with silicon-based surface micromachining to fabricate magnetically actuated microflexure structures. Both the “frame-plating” technique and also a less complex onemask plating process have been used to electrodeposit NiFe onto polysilicon flexures coated with Cr-Cu seed layers. The microactuators are released by removing the underlying sacrific...