Magnetic seeding coagulation (MSC) process has been used to accelerate flocs sedimentation with an applied magnetic field, offering large handling capacity and low energy consumption. The interactions of three typical Al species, aluminum chloride (AlCl3), Al13O4(OH)247+ polymer (Al13), (AlO4)2Al28(OH)5618+ (Al30), particles (MPs) were examined clarify the MSC process. In traditional (TC) proce...

The metabolic activation of several chemical classes of procarcinogens is being studied in cultured human bronchi. Previous studies have shown that carcinogenic polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons are metabolically activated by the bronchial epithelium. In the study reported here, dimethylnitrosamine and 1,2-dimethylhydrazine were also found to bind to both cellular DNA and protein. Bronchial DNA...

Isolated Escherichia coli K-12 cell envelopes or Bacillus subtilis 168 cell walls were reacted with smectite or kaolinite clay in distilled deionized water (pH 6.0); unbound envelopes or walls were separated by sucrose density gradient centrifugation, and the extent of adsorption was calculated. At saturation, both clays adsorbed approximately 1.0 mg (dry weight) of envelopes or walls per mg (d...

Conventional coagulation is not an effective treatment option to remove natural organic matter (NOM) in water with high alkalinity/pH. For this type of water, enhanced coagulation is currently proposed as one of the available treatment options and is implemented by acidifying the raw water and applying increased doses of hydrolyzing coagulants. Both of these methods have some disadvantages such...

Exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine, alternatively powered by gasoline or by liquefied petroleum gas, were analysed for polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons. The engine operated a lift truck for the handling of warehouse goods. A combined condensation-filtration apparatus was constructed for sampling of the exhausts. The basic steps of the analytical procedure are summarized here. Sev...

Nine new mononuclear and polynuclear Cu(II) complexes [Cu(H2L(2))Cl]Cl·3H2O (1), [Cu(H2L(3))Cl]Cl·H2O (2), [Cu(H2L(4))Cl]Cl·2.5H2O (3), [Cu3(μ(3)-L(1))2(H2O)3](ClO4)2·H2O (4), [Cu4(μ-HL(1))4](ClO4)8·CH3OH·5H2O (5), [Cu2(HL(3))2](ClO4)2·2H2O (6a), [Cu2(μ-HL(3))2](ClO4)2·H2O (6b), [Cu2(μ-HL(3))(L(3))Cu(teta)](ClO4)3·2H2O (7) and [Cu2(H2L(3))2(ox)](ClO4)2·2H2O·2MeOH (8) containing [5-(2-pyridine-2...

The structures and reactivity of fluoridated Keggin-aluminum tridecamers (K-Al13) in aqueous solution were studied using density functional theory (DFT) in order to explore the fluorine substitution process and the influence of F(-) on the chemical behavior of Keggin polynuclear Al species. The structures of fluoridated K-Al13 were optimized with the consideration of both explicit and bulk solv...

The ionic title complex, [Cu(C(4)H(13)N(3))(2)](2)[Cr(NCS)(4)(NH(3))(2)](3)(NCS)·14C(2)H(6)OS·H(2)O, consists of complex [Cu(dien)(2)](2+) cations [dien is N-(2-amino-eth-yl)ethane-1,2-diamine], com-plex [Cr(NCS)(4)(NH(3))(2)](-) anions, an NCS(-) counter-anion and uncoordinated dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and water solvent mol-ecules. One of the Cr atoms lies on an inversion center, while the se...