It has been suggested that raising soil pH through liming could reduce the impact of whitegrub on crop yield in the treated soil. To test this hypothesis, whitegrub incidence was monitored in a trial designed to examine the effects of various lime treatments on crop yields of varieties N16 and N12. Lime was applied at two rates (5 and 10 t/ha) and in combination with gypsum at 5 t/ha each. Resu...

Solventogenic Clostridium species are motile Gram positive anaerobic bacteria used for the fermentative production of acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE). The addition of CaCO3 to semi-defined P2 medium was investigated to evaluate its impact on growth, amelioration of butanol toxicity, glucose utilization, and ABE production by solventogenic Clostridium species. Two Clostridium species commonly used...

Different stimulus including pH, light and temperature have been used for controlled drug release to prevent drug inactivation and minimize side-effects. Herein a novel nano-platform (GNS@CaCO3/ICG) consisting of calcium carbonate-encapsulated gold nanostars loaded with ICG was established to couple the photothermal properties of gold nanostars (GNSs) and the photodynamic properties of indocyan...

Liming of diffusers with milk of lime is warranted from a corrosion point of view. It can however cause both physical and chemical problems. The use of calcium saccharate, prepared from lime and mixed juice, as an alternative to milk of lime is suggested and the results from preliminary tests are discussed. The main objective is to investigate whether calcium saccharate could overcome some of t...

In the less developed parts of southern Africa, where agriculture is crucial in daily survival, agricultural lime is often difficult to obtain. This is due to the scarcity of production sites, high transport costs and inadequate support for farmers from government extension services. In Zambia there are upwards of 700,000 small-scale farmers who struggle to farm on acid soils and as a result ha...

It has been proposed that crustaceans should be excluded from a comparison of biological responses to ocean acidification among organisms with different calcium carbonate (CaCO3 ) forms in their calcified structures. We re-analysed our data without crustaceans and found high variation in organismal responses within CaCO3 categories. We conclude that the CaCO3 polymorph alone does not predict se...

Low-iron, manganese-enriched (LIME) olivine grains are found in cometary samples returned by the Stardust mission from comet 81P ⁄Wild 2. Similar grains are found in primitive meteoritic clasts and unequilibrated meteorite matrix. LIME olivine is thermodynamically stable in a vapor of solar composition at high temperature at total pressures of a millibar to a microbar, but enrichment of solar c...

In order to study the application of lime-fly ash loess in permafrost subgrade engineering, uniaxial compressive test, fast direct shearing test and permeability tests were carried out on lime-fly ash loess under different curing ages and freeze-thaw cycles. Uniaxial compressive strength of lime-fly ash loess increases slowly with the curing ages, and can reach 3.5 Mpa after the curing ages of ...

If the anaesthetic circle system is arranged to increase the humidity of fresh anaesthetic gases by placing the carbon dioxide absorbent canister between the fresh gas inlet and the patient, drying of the soda-lime can occur. Very dry soda-lime adsorbs significant quantities of halothane. Using fresh soda-lime, effluent halothane concentration reached 50% of the input concentration in 35s, but ...

The River Yläneenjoki catchment in southwest Finland is an area with a high agricultural nutrient load. We report here on the nutrient removal performance of three on-site lime-sand filters (F1, F2, and F3), established within or on the edge of the buffer zones. The filters contain burnt lime (CaO) or spent lime [CaO, Ca(OH), and CaCO]. Easily soluble lime results in a high pH level (>11) and l...