Contamination of waters by discharge heavy metals such as Lead (Pb), Cadmium (Cd), Zinc (Zn) etc. from various industrial activities poses a great threat to humans, plants and animals, thus the need for their removal waste waters. In this work, synthetic tobermorite was prepared using soda-lime-silica glass silica precursor while snail shell ash used source calcium oxide. Several compositions w...

This study investigated the one-pot hydrothermal synthesis of mixed-phase ion-exchangers from waste amber container glass and three different aluminium sources (Si/Al = 2) in 4.5 M NaOH(aq) at 100 °C. Reaction products were characterised by X-ray diffraction analysis, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, 27Al 29Si magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy scanning electro...