The response of maize (Zea may L.) to heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb and Zn) contamination was investigated in field experiments to predict the potential of the plant to extract metal toxicants. Experimental field was amended with increasing loads (2–10 kgha-1) of either metal salt...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/39958
Nuclear medicine is a powerful diagnostic technique capable of detecting inflammatory points in human disease by using radiolabeled compounds. The ideal compound for imaging infection should be specific for an infected site with minimal side effects, low marrow, gut and renal upt...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/40170
The use of technology in agriculture has paved ways for new farming techniques across the globe and the benefits cannot be overemphasised. These benefits include an increase in the quality and quantity of crops produced, minimising cost of farming, providing suggestions for promp...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/39653
Background and Aim: Chitin, a naturally occurring polysaccharide was isolated from the shells of crabs. The chitin was chemically modified to give alkali chitin, carboxymethyl chitin, highly deacetylated CM chitosan and highly deacetylated chitosan. The highly deacetylated chito...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/38599
The toxic pollutants released from oil and gas activities typically takes years of clean-up and reclamation. Hence, creating the need for new nano-materials that can function as adsorbents, filter membranes, and coating materials, which offer a molecular level of control in separ...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/39683
The ligand S-(5-methoxy-1H-benzimidazole-2-yl) thiophene-2-carbothioate (BTC) and its Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) metal complexes have been synthesized, structurally characterized by physicochemical and spectroscopic tools (Uv-vis, FT-IR, NMR, Lc-mass). The powder XRD analy...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/39565
Demulsifier is one of the crude oil production chemicals that constitute the contaminants in the resulting produced water that is usually discharged into the marine environment. Most commercial demulsifiers list the toxic effects of individual components of their formulations whi...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/39105
Nowadays, Ionic Liquids (ILs) have been developed as a cleaner, safer and environmentally friendly chemicals that are widely used in both academia and industries. The ammonium benzoate and its derivative ILs were synthesized in the neutralization reaction of different cations of...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/39148
Cobalt oxyhydroxide (CoO(OH)) thin films have been successfully deposited on glass substrates through the reaction of CoCl2, triethanolamine (TEA) and NH3 in PVP matrix using chemical bath deposition method at 333K and annealed at 423K. By changing the time of deposition as a con...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/39131
Spectroscopic techniques can advantageously be employed for qualitative and quantitative analysis of plant isolates. In the present work, we dealt with the nature of visible absorption spectra of hexane and methanolic isolates of a medicinal plant S. monostachyus. S. monostachyus...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/38601