-The adsorption of Ni(II) and Cu(II) on to the clay minerMs kaolinite, chlorite, and illite has been investigated. The quantity of Ni(II) at pH 6 and Cu(II) at pH 5 adsorbed has been found to vary in the manner chlorite > illite > kaolinite. Examination of the mode of bonding of the metal ions to the clay minerals using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) has been carried out. Comparison of ...

Two types of pure cellulose, Avicel PH-101 and Whatman filter paper, were treated with an acid-chlorite delignification procedure in the presence of varying amounts of incorporated lignin, and the molecular weight distributions and degrees of polymerization (DP) of derivatized cellulose were determined by gel permeation chromatography (GPC). Avicel samples with 0% added lignin showed a DP reduc...

This work investigated the potential for biocatalytic degradation of micropollutants, focusing on chlorine oxyanions as model contaminants, by mining biology to identify promising biocatalysts. Existing isozymes of chlorite dismutase (Cld) were characterized with respect to parameters relevant to this high volume, low-value product application: kinetic parameters, resistance to catalytic inacti...

-Batch cation-exchange experiments were performed on chlorite, using synthetic ground water containing cesium in the concentration range 10-9-10 -3 M. The sorption behavior was complex; with increasing Cs concentration, the distribution ratio of Cs decreased at first, but passed through a pronounced maximum at high Cs loadings. The desorption data differed from the sorption data only by a shift...

chloritoid is crystallised with chlorite, white mica and garnet in chlorite zone metapelites ofthe regional metamorphic rocks of the sanandaj-sirjan metamorphic belt in southern iran. chemistry ofcoexisting minerals is studied using microprobe analysis. application of the chlorite-chloritoidgeothermometry gives temperatures of 515°c and 557°c. the chlorite-garnet fe-mg exchangegeothermometer in...

The influence of conditioning on the flotation of pyrrhotite in the presence of chlorite was investigated through flotation tests, sedimentation tests, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis. The flotation results show that chlorite slimes dramatically impair the flotation of pyrrhotite. Sedimentation and flotation tests reveal that conditioning can effectively remove chlorite slim...

The East Asian summer monsoon controls the climatic regime of an extended region through temperature and precipitation changes. As the East Asian summer monsoon is primarily driven by the northern hemisphere summer insolation, such meteorological variables are expected to significantly change on the orbital timescale, influencing the composition of terrestrial sediments in terms of both mineral...

-The electrostatic lattice energy of polar phyllosilicates can be calculated when a correction term E .... equal to -2r is taken into account, where/~ is the dipole moment of a slice d(001) and V is the molecular volume. The interlayer bonding energy can be obtained by Giese's method, if the energy of separation of the layers over a distance A is plotted againts 1/[d(001) + A]. Thus, for a pola...