TiO2-coated porous silica glass tubes containing macropores were fabricated and evaluated for their water-purification capacity using aqueous solutions of methylene blue. From the results of photocatalytic degradation tests at different initial methylene blue concentrations, the equilibrium adsorption constant (K) was determined to be 4.6 × 10−2 L μmol−1, and the Langmuir-Hinshelwood rate const...

Experimental Section: Fabrication of glass devices The procedure for fabrication of SlipChip from glass was based on previous work. 1 The sodalime glass slide with chromium and photoresist coating was aligned with a photomask containing the design for the wells and the ducts, and AZ 1500 positive photoresist was exposed using standard exposure protocols. The glass plate was immersed in 0.1 mol/...

Sir,?I beg to send here witli a prescription for the hypodermic use of quinine. Take of the sulphate of quinine 30 grains and make it into a soft paste with a few drops of distilled water in a glass mortar, then add pure hydrochloric acid drop by drop continuously, and also a few drops of distilled water, occasionally rubbing it up with the pestle at the same time till you get a clear solution....

Stable superhydrophobic surfaces with water contact angles over 170 degrees and sliding angles below 7 degrees were produced by simply coating a particulate silica sol solution of co-hydrolysed TEOS/fluorinated alkyl silane with NH(3).H(2)O on various substrates, including textile fabrics (e.g. polyester, wool and cotton), electrospun nanofibre mats, filter papers, glass slides, and silicon waf...

In this paper synthesis and characterization of a bioactive calcium phosphate glass-ceramic is presented, synthesized using a facile method. The glass-ceramic samples are synthesized with heat treating the parent glass at appropriate temperatures, where different calcium phosphate crystalline phases are grown in the parent glass samples during the heat treatment. The amounts of elements a...

1. Many of the glass containers commonly used in the laboratory, and most of the glass ampules employed in marketing sterile solutions for hypodermic or intravenous medication, yield sufficient alkali on autoclaving, to change the reaction of distilled water from pH 6.0 to pH 9.0. 2. This increase in alkalinity is sufficient to render biologically inert and partially to decompose aqueous soluti...

Vitrification of bovine cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) is not as successful as bovine embryos, due to oocyte's complex structure and chilling sensitivity. Synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SXRD), a powerful method to study crystal structure and phase changes, was used to detect the glass or ice formation in water, tissue culture medium (TCM)-199, vitrification solution 2 (VS2), and vitrified bovi...

In this work, a rapid method based on air-assisted liquid liquid microextraction (AALLME) was developed for the determination of three fungicides (azoxystrobin, diethofencarb and pyrimethanil) in water and juice samples. A narrow-neck glass tube was made to facilitate collection of the low-density extractant. The mixture of extractant and sample solution is rapidly sucked into a 5-mL glass syri...

1. Male Wistar rats develop systolic arterial hypertension when housed in glass metabolism cages. The present experiments were designed to investigate the involvement of the adrenal glands in this form of hypertension. 2. Rats were bilaterally adrenalectomized and maintained by either salt supplementation (1% sodium chloride solution instead of tap water to drink) or steroid replacement (cortic...

The Internet has been increasingly used to facilitate online business transactions between business entities and consumers for various products and services. One of the applications that has received much attention in the last few years is Online Grocery Shopping (OGS). However, the study of Online Grocery Shopping has been limited in number. To enrich the existing studies, this paper examines ...