Molecular organic geochemical proxies are increasingly being utilized to reconstruct past environmental conditions as new tools continue to be discovered and developed. To date, organic geochemical proxies have been developed mainly for use in marine systems and are widely used in paleoceanography. In contrast, organic proxies have been less commonly used on lacustrine sedimentary records. One ...

One of the promising aspects of the immunological research on chemical war gas is to investigate the immunogenicity of some hazardous compounds such as mustard gas. Mustard gas is categorized as a "hapten" based on its physical and chemical properties. Haptenic chemicals which do not possess immunogenicity could be immunogenic experimentally when conjugated with a suitable protein carrier...

It has long been evident that the metabolism of trace elements cannot be considered in isolation. A wide range of nutritional and physiological factors can influence their uptake, transport and storage, with subsequent enhancement of susceptibility to deficiency or toxicity states. Interactions occur with other trace elements and these can be classified as competitive or non-competitive, direct...

We developed polynomial expressions for the temperature dependence of the mean binary and water activity coefficients for H2SO4 and HNO3 solutions. These activities were used in an equilibrium model to predict the composition of stratospheric aerosols under a wide range of environmental conditions. For typical concentrations of H20, H2SO4, HNO3, HCI, HBr, HF, and HOCI in the lower stratosphere,...

In this paper we used a surfactant-stabilized lyotropic lamellar model system to study the interfacial behavior of an ion-extracting agent: N(1),N(3) dimethyl-N(1),N(3)-dibutyl-2-tetradecylmalonamide (DMDBTDMA). An analysis of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and polarized attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) data enabled us to describe the distribution of the m...

The extraction behavior of neodymium and other rare earths from nitric acid media by the functionalized ionic liquid trioctylmethylammonium dioctyl diglycolamate, [A336][DGA], was investigated. The nonfluorinated ionic liquid trioctylmethylammonium nitrate, [A336][NO3], was used as diluent. The extraction behavior of neodymium(III) in this ionic liquid solution was carried out as a function of ...

In order to efficiently remove phenolics from coal chemical wastewater, this study utilizes molecular simulation determine the most effective extractant. And extraction effect is verified through results. The energy of hydrogen bonding dominates extractant’s ability. interaction between phenols and solvent was examined using calculations, it discovered that strong H-bond CYC/1-PA synergistic ex...

a series of non-cyclic polyethers with different end groups and chain length were used for the extraction of lithium salt from aqueous into various organic phases viz. chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, 1,2-dichloroethane, to study the influence of structural variations within the extractant molecule upon the extraction selectivity and efficiency. the ionophores used were viz. deg (i), degdme (i...

Stereoisomers of monoamide highlight the importance extractant chirality for U/Pu extraction.

2,6-di(5,6-dipropyl-1,2,4-triazin-3-yl)pyridine (n-Pr-BTP), first developed in our laboratory, is a very promising extractant for the effective separation of actinides(III) from lanthanides(III). It is able to extract actinides(III) with usable distribution coefficient from 1-2 molar nitric acid selectively over lanthanides(III). The Am(III)/Eu(III) separation factor is approx. 135. The perform...