Aims: The present study aims to quantify major secoiridoids (amaroswerin and amrogentin) in different parts of Swertia chirayita using HPLC to distinguish its parts having a high content of amaroswerin and amarogentin, so that these parts must be included in plant material when t...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2018/47081
Aim: In the present investigation, our aim is to develop and validate HPLC method as per ICH guidelines for analyisis of picroside-I and picroside-II in Picrorhiza kurroa. Place and Duration of Study: Investigation was undertaken in Department of Forest Products, University of Ho...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2018/47326
Aims: In the present study our aim is to develop and validate a reverse phase HPLC method for both determination and quantification of cochicine in different parts of Gloriosa superba. The developed HPLC method is validated for parameters as mentioned in ICH guidelines. Place and...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2019/46807
Aqueous solutions of different pH from red cabbage (Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata f. rubra DC.) extracts were prepared. Effects of different doses/dose rates of gamma irradiation on the red cabbage aqueous solutions were investigated. Solutions were exposed to 1- 10 kGy of g...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2018/46199
The extraction and analytical multiresidue method, has been developed and validated for quantification of trace levels of 74 pesticide belong to different chemical groups in organic and conventional Olive farm soil samples (Old, medial and new olive farms which is 25, 15 and 5 ye...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2018/46264
Canola oil is extracted from Rapeseed which of the family of the Brassicaceae. The oil is used in cosmetic, medicine, cooking, and soaps. In this study the chemical properties of canola oil which are acid value, percent free fatty acid, saponification value and peroxide value wer...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2018/46437
Honey is a natural food is produced from the nectar of flowers by bees, contains a lot of sugars, vitamins, minerals and nucleic acids. Honey is an important nutrient for the human body and health, where modern science proved that honey natural antibiotic and tonic for the human...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2018/46302
Aims: The aim of this work is to investigate the inhibitive properties of Azadirachta indica (neem) gum on mild steel corrosion in different acidic media using gravimetric method. Place and Duration of Study: Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Kano University of Scien...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2018/45186
Pectin, a component of the plant cells, exists in the primary cell wall along with the middle lamella of plant tissues and is found mostly in citrus fruit peels. Peels of orange is an important source of pectin which is utilized as an emulsifying, gelling and thickening agent in...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2018/46089
Concentrations of heavy metals in water, sediments, as well as littoral plants from two sampling sites A and B of ijora creek of Lagos metropolis were investigated using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer. Water and sediments from site A showed higher concentrations of the inves...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2018/46146
Simple and sensitive differential pulse voltammetric (DPV) method has been developed for simultaneous determination of camylofin-2HCl and paracetamol. The electrochemical oxidation of camylofin was studied at carbon paste electrode using cyclic and differential pulse voltammetry....
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2018/45823
Nickel-polypyrrole co-modified ZnO nano-composites (Ni-ZnO/Ppy) were synthesized by two methods, metal impregnation of nickel (Ni) and In-situ chemical polymerization of polypyrrole (Ppy) on ZnO nano-particles. The crystal size, band gap energy and bond structure of as-synthesize...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2018/45731
Agarose is a major gelling constituent of agar extracted from red seaweeds and is used in the separation, purification, and characterization of bio-macromolecules (DNA, RNA, protein and polysaccharide). The purpose of this study is to identify a novel agarose molecule. The polysa...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2018/45201
The bimetal coupling of Ag and Cu into the matrix of ZnO semiconductor was successfully achieved using microwave irradiation technique under very low synthetic temperature and power of and 240 Watt, respectively. In order to determine the phase, structural, morphological and elem...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2018/26975
Objectives: To study the effect of ohmic heating and lye-salt concentrations on quality characteristics of tomato puree. The quality characteristics of tomato puree by using ohmic heating and lye-salt concentrations were investigated. Ohmic heating is also termed as ‘resistance h...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2018/44839