Microbial biomineralisation is attracting significant interest as an innovative process to recover nutrients from wastes. Nevertheless, little understood about the requirements form struvite using biological pathways in wastewater and how does this compare with conventional chemical processes. To address gap, Halobacterium salinarum, Bacillus pumilus, Brevibacterium antiquum, Myxococcus xanthus...

A prospective study to evaluate alternations in serum concentrations of total magnesium(TMg), ionized magnesium (iMg), inorganic phosphorus (PO4), lactic acid (LA), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) during and after liver resections in liver cirrhotic patients and their inter-relationships. Twenty-five patients were included with Child-Pughs B classification. Samp...

Fertilizers are often applied according to nitrogen requirement; however, recent evidence suggests that phosphorus (P) may pose as much, if not more, of an environmental threat. The objective of this research was to quantify the differences in phosphate-phosphorus losses in runoff from two organic fertilizers (poultry litter and composted dairy manure) and one inorganic fertilizer control, appl...

PURPOSE To investigate the influence of calcium phosphate enhanced home whitening agents on human enamel and dentin surface microhardness and ultramorphology. METHODS Five intact molars crowns were used for ultrastructural analysis and five for microhardness test. Each resulting coronal structure was cut in slices. After measuring baseline Knoop Hardness Number (KHN) of the enamel and dentin,...

Iron (III) oxides are ubiquitous in near-surface soils and sediments and interact strongly with dissolved phosphates via sorption, co-precipitation, mineral transformation and redox-cycling reactions. Iron oxide phases are thus, an important reservoir for dissolved phosphate, and phosphate bound to iron oxides may reflect dissolved phosphate sources as well as carry a history of the biogeochemi...

The substituted activator ions Eu(2+) in the β-Ca3(PO4)2-type structure, Ca9NaMg(PO4)7 compound, have been studied as emission centers, as well as structural probes. The crystal structure and crystallographic sites of Eu(2+) in Ca9NaMg(PO4)7 have been identified by Rietveld refinements, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy analysis and combined photoluminescence spectral analysis,...

The structure of apatite, Ca10(PO4)6F2, can be described in terms of an approximate hexagonal close packed set of spheres in which each sphere represents a tetrahedral PO4 3ion. This packing has octahedral interstitial sites that form channels through the structure parallel to the hexagonal axis. The F and 4/10ths of the Ca ions are located in these channels forming columns of F and Ca ions res...

Fluoride can be removed from wastewater by addition of calcite. However, fluoride is often found in complex mixtures where other contaminants can affect the removal process. Batch experiments were used to determine the impact of phosphate (PO4 3 ) on the removal of fluoride from solution by calcite. In the experiments, up to 2,000 mg/L F and 500 mg/L PO4 3 were used with 150 mm and 1.18 mm calc...

Pyridoxal-PO* binds to pepsinogen in a reaction in which the stoichiometry is highly dependent on the conformation of the protein. When pepsinogen is in its native conformation, pyridoxal-PO4 forms Schiff bases with the (r-NH2 group of Leul and the e-NH2 group of LysZS8. When the protein is mildly denatured and assumes a more extended conformation, pyridoxal-PO4 can react with the t-NH2 groups ...