Toxicity tests of mercuric chloride and ethyl mercuric chloride were run on Bathyporeia pilosa. One-hundred-and-eight factorial combinations were analysed for each mercurial compound (three salinities, three temperatures, two age groups and six mercury concentrations). These were complemented by...

Syncrude Canada Ltd. is currently developing environmentally acceptable oil sands process-affected water management methods as part of their land reclamation strategy. Surface waters of the “wet landscape” reclamation option characteristically have elevated concentrations of sodium sulphate an...

Tailings ponds created during industrial bitumen extraction from the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR), Alberta, Canada, have been shown to contain numerous contaminants, such as polycyclic aromatic compounds and naphthenic acids, and to slowly leak into adjacent ground and surface waters. Despi...

Four advanced oxidation processes (UV/TiO2, UV/IO4−, UV/S2O82−, and UV/H2O2) were tested for their ability to mineralize naphthenic acids to inorganic carbon in a model oil sands process water containing high dissolved and suspended solids at pH values ranging from 8 to 12. A medium pressure mer...

A new technology for covering an etched and anodized aluminum (Al) foil with polypyrrole (PPy) was developed. PPy was electropolymerized from an external electrode via an extremely thin semiconducting manganese oxide layer prepared on the etched and anodized Al foil in advance. Pyrolytic and red...

A new method using microemulsified samples is presented. It is for the determination of chromium naphthenate in gasoline by flame absorption spectroscopy. The method has the advantage of simplicity, speed and the use of aqueous standards for calibration instead of organic standards. Coexistent e...

A new method for the spectrophotometric determination of nickel naphthenate in gasoline in a microemulsion was developed. PAN reacts with nickel(II) forming a red complex with composition 1:2 (metal to ligand) nickel(II)-PAN and absorption maximum at 568 nm. Nickel naphthenate in gasoline can be...

Background & AimsIn one-third of hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs), cancer cells have mutations that activate β-catenin pathway. These cells have alterations in glutamine, bile, and lipid metabolism. We investigated whether positron emission tomography (PET) imaging allows identification of alte...

1-propanol or 2-propanol and water form azeotropic mixtures with the minimum boiling point at constant pressure. The separation of these azeotropes is an important issue in the chemical industries. Their separation by simple distillation is basically impossible, and the extractive distillation c...

The mixture of choline chloride and ethyleneglycol ((1:3) on the molar scale) is first characterized using density, viscosimetry and refractive index measurements, in the temperature range 20–45°C, with controlled amounts of water. Thermodynamic parameters such as the activation entropy, entha...

In this work, the effects of deposition potential, [Ni2+]/[Zn2+] molar ratio, pH and bath temperature on the electrocrystallization mechanism of ZnNi alloy from an aqueous solution containing zinc chloride (ZnCl2), nickel chloride (NiCl2) and tri‑sodium citrate as complexing agent were studied. ...

PurposeTo evaluate integrated PET/MRI/1H MR spectroscopy in patients with prostate cancer.

The conversion of glucose into a potential platform chemical for fuels and plastics, 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), has been studied using B(OH)3 as a promoter in different solvents, namely molten mixtures made of choline salts and carboxylic acids, with the aim of developing an inexpensive and ...

Thermal decomposition of iron choline citrate (C33H57Fe2N3O24) has been investigated using X-ray powder diffraction, Fourier transform infrared and 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopies. The starting compound was heated in a furnace at selected temperatures between room temperature and 460°C, and coole...

Native starch containing 12% water was melt processed in presence of 23% of various plasticizers at 120 °C, either by simple compression molding or by extrusion using a laboratory scale microcompounder. Glycerol, a typical starch plasticizer, was used as a reference and compared to three cholin...

SummaryCholine is a vitamin-like nutrient that is taken up via specific transporters and metabolized by choline kinase, which converts it to phosphocholine needed for de novo synthesis of phosphatidylcholine (PC), the main phospholipid of cellular membranes. We found that Toll-like receptor (TLR...

Aqueous biphasic systems (ABS) have attracted considerable attention for their unique applications in extraction and purification processes. Choline-based ionic liquids (IL), deep eutectic solvents (DES), or buffers have been studied as replacements to traditional organic solvents because they c...

Female plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) were orally dosed with a gelatin capsule containing a solution of the technical PCB mixture Clophen A40 in sunflower oil. They were compared to plaice injected with a gelatin capsule containing only the sunflower oil at 10 and 16 days after injection. Even a...

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are very persistent organic pollutants of severe environmental concern due to their toxic properties. Former underground miners might have been exposed to this substance group due to the widespread use of PCBs in hydraulic oils from the late 1960s to the mid 1980...

A method to separate polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) by using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was developed. The HPLC column was packed with Amoco PX-21 activated carbon dispersed on octadecylsilane (ODS). The separation was carried out by gradient elution with n-hexane–dichlorom...