Accepted: October 29, 1985 The problems regarding storage and pre-neutron activation analysis treatment for the elements aluminrun. calcium, vanadium, selenium, copper, iodine, zinc, manganese, and magnesium in a urine matrix are reviewed. The type of collection and storage procedure and pre-neutron activation analysis treatment of urine depend on the specific trace element; that is, its inhere...

This work was undertaken to measure background silver in Illinois precipitation in the absence of any known seeding operations in or near Illinois. The overall rainfall-weighted mean concentration at several stations was 73 ng/liter. This is somewhat higher than has been found in unseeded precipitation in the western United States, but probably not high enough to preclude identification of silv...

The oceans are salty. Each litre contains about 35 g of dissolved salts, resulting from the balance between inputs and outputs to the ocean over geological time. The constituents of common salt—Na and Cl—make up more than 90% of this dissolved mass, and together with Mg, S and Ca, represent 99%. Add only three more elements— K, Br and C—and you have more than 999 parts in a 1000 of the dissolve...

Correlation analyses were conducted on nickel (Ni), vanadium (V) and zinc (Zn) oral bioaccessible fractions (BAFs) and selected geochemistry parameters to identify specific controls exerted over trace element bioaccessibility. BAFs were determined by previous research using the unified BARGE method. Total trace element concentrations and soil geochemical parameters were analysed as part of the ...

the collapse of a compression member gives rise to decrease of the load carrying capacity of the member. to perform a nonlinear analysis, in addition to the precritical behavior, the post-critical behavior of the compression member also must be determined. in this study, because of certain advantages of the finite element method, this method has been selected to evaluate the axial load-axial di...

A pooled sample of hair was divided and portions prepared for analysis by three washing procedures, to evaluate the effect of washing procedure on the subsequent trace-element (Zn, Cu, Mg) content. The methods selected were a detergent wash, a hexane-ethanol wash, and an acetone-ether-detergent wash. For all elements, there was a significant difference among the results after these wash procedu...