A simple spectrophotometric method is developed for the determination of phosphate in sugar cane juice, water and detergent samples. The method is based on the formation of phosphomolybdate with added molybdate followed by its reduction with sodium sulphide in aqueous sulfuric acid medium. The system obeys Lambert-Beer’s law at 715 nm in the concentration range 0.3-12.24 ppm. Molar absorptivity...

Treatment of cultured malignant human keratinocytes with sodium arsenate greatly suppressed expression of involucrin, a specific marker of keratinocyte differentiation. This action was primarily attributable to inhibition of involucrin transcription according to message run-on and stability measurements. Involucrin was suppressed in nontumorigenic keratinocytes as well, although the efficacy of...

The tite compound, lithium penta-sodium nona-molybdate, LiNa(5)Mo(9)O(30), was synthesized by solid-state reaction. The three-dimensional [Mo(9)O(30)](6-) framework is built up from MoO(6) octa-hedra and MoO(5) bipyramids, linked together by edges and corners. The framework delimits two types of inter-secting tunnels running along [100] and [010] in which the Na(+) and Li(+) ions are located. T...

The title compound, nona-sodium chromium(III) hexa-kis[molybdate(VI)], Na9Cr(MoO4)6 was prepared by solid-state reactions. The basic structure units are isolated polyhedral clusters composed of a central CrO6 octa-hedron sharing vertices with six MoO4 tetrahedra to form an open framework in which the Na(+) cations are bound to the free vertices of the MoO4 tetra-hedra. The Cr(3+) cation has sit...

Different concentrations of ammonium molybdate (10(-7) to 10(-4)M) affected the levels of metabolites in the source and sink organs of the seedlings of C. melo and C. vulgaris and data were recorded at 7, 14 and 21 days after treatment (DAT) of molybdenum (Mo). Reducing and non reducing sugars declined with an increase in concentration of ammonium molybdate from 10(-7) to 10(-4) M. Soluble prot...

The range of inorganic acid normalities for maximum color formation of the phosphomolybdenum-blue complex (under heating) increases by elevating the ammonium molybdate concentra­ tion, and at a ratio of molybdate molarity/acid normality equal to 10, there is maximum color development at any acid normality in the range 1—4 n with either HC104 or H2S04 (or their mixtures). On the basis of these f...

A 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) chelated molybdenum(VI) citrate, [(MoO2)2O(H2cit)(phen)(H2O)2] x H2O (1) (H4cit = citric acid), is isolated from the reaction of citric acid, ammonium molybdate and phen in acidic media (pH 0.5-1.0). A citrato oxomolybdenum(V) complex, [(MoO)2O(H2cit)2(bpy)2] x 4H2O (2), is synthesized by the reduction of citrato molybdate with hydrazine hydrochloride in the presenc...

The LUMINEU program aims at performing a pilot experiment on neutrinoless double beta decay of Mo using radiopure ZnMoO4 crystals operated as scintillating bolometers. Growth of high quality radiopure crystals is a complex task, since there are no commercially available molybdenum compounds with the required levels of purity and radioactive contamination. This paper discusses approaches to puri...

The new phase potassium penta-sodium trimanganese hexa-kis(molybdate), KNa5Mn3Mo6O24, has been synthesized using solid-state methods. The structure is composed of M 2O10 (M = Mn, Na) dimers and MoO4 tetra-hedra (point group symmetry 2) sharing corners and forming layers parallel to (100), which are linked via common corners of another type of MO4 tetra-hedra, forming a three-dimensional structu...

Organic phosphorus is an important component of soil biogeochemical cycles, but must be extracted from soil prior to analysis. Here we critically review the extraction of soil organic phosphorus, including procedures for quantification, speciation, and assessment of biological availability. Quantitative extraction conventionally requires strong acids and bases, which inevitably alter chemical s...