Inorganic Chemicals - Science topic

Abstract Background Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a lethal mammary carcinoma subtype that affects females and is associated with a worse prognosis. Chemotherapy is the only conventional therapy available for patients with TNBC due to the lack of therapeutic targets. Yttrium oxide (Y2O3) is a rare earth metal oxide, whose nanoparticle (NPs...

Microplastics (MPs) and surfactants (STs) are emerging pollutants in the environment. While many studies have focused on the interactions of STs with MPs, there has not been a comprehensive review focusing on the effect of STs on MPs in aquatic ecosystems. This review summarizes methods for removal of MPs from wastewater (e.g., filtration, flotatio...

A phase change material (PCM) is an organic (or inorganic) chemical that may store and release thermal energy in latent form as it changes physical states. This investigation aims to see how phase transition materials influence the thermal efficiency of the solar dryer. For the performance analysis, three PCMs were used: paraffin wax, lauric acid,...

Background The World Health Organization (WHO) has published criteria for determining the quality of drinking water since 1958. Since 1984, these criteria were termed “guidelines” to emphasize that they are not national standards, but rather guidelines for nations to develop their own national standards, which may take into account local environmen...

Accidental fires are prevalent in low-income communities and one of the solutions to decrease fire risk is to apply fire retardants on combustible materials. While extensive research was available in creating fire retardants with inorganic chemicals, further studies are needed for bio-based fire retardants. The development of bio-based fire retarda...

Water pollution is one of the major threats to public health throughout the world. In Pakistan, the drinking water quality is poorly managed and monitored. Both surface and groundwater sources are contaminated with municipal wastes, industrial effluents and agrochemicals wastes. Therefore, water purification is necessary to reduce the contamination...

Wet deposition monitoring is a critical part of the long-term monitoring of acid deposition, which aims to assess the ecological impact of anthropogenic emissions of SO2 and NOx. In North America, long-term wet deposition has been monitored through two national networks: the Canadian Air and Precipitation Monitoring Network (CAPMoN) and the US Nati...

Identifying the underlying antigen responsible for Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (HP) in patients poses a significant challenge within the confines of a typical clinical environment. Our primary objective in this study was to investigate the distribution and prevalence of G antibodies among individuals diagnosed with HP, taking into account factors...

A very crucial part of Bangladeshi people’s employment, GDP contribution, and mainly livelihood is agriculture. It plays a vital role in decreasing poverty and ensuring food security. Plant diseases are a serious stumbling block in agricultural production in Bangladesh. At times, humans can’t detect the disease from an infected leaf with the naked...

Citrus fruits are among the priority crops for Uganda. Government has invested significant resources to boost citrus production due to their potential to increase household income, nutritional security and national exports. However, soil-borne pathogens are among several biotic-factors significantly constraining production. Whereas inorganic chemic...

With the enormous population growth, the demand for food is getting high, farmers are using more amount of chemical inorganic fertilizers which giving rise to environmental pollution. Climate change adds fuel to the fire. Crop failure is becoming more prominent due to adverse abiotic and biotic stress. So, popularization of seaweed extract as a bi...

The application of natural coagulants derived from food byproducts in domestic wastewater tertiary treatment, which contains a number of impurities as suspended colloidal particles, has a potential use as essential substitutes for traditional inorganic coagulants. These biomaterials are a sustainable and environmentally friendly alternative that ca...

Rapid urbanization and industrialization in the past decades have resulted in vast amounts of wastewater containing pollutants such as inorganic chemicals, pathogens, pharmaceuticals, plant nutrients, petrochemical products, and microplastics [...]

ROLE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY IN AGRICULTURE BY IMPROVING SOIL HEALTH, PLANT BROAD-MINDEDNESS, CROP QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY FOR SUSTAINING RAPID POPULATION Kamal Prasad Centre for Advance Agriculture Research, Xenesis Institute, Absolute Bioscience, Plot No. 68, Sector-44, Delhi NCR, Gurugram-122002, Haryana, India ABSTRACT Presently, soil manage...

Reliably identifying synthesizable inorganic crystalline materials is an unsolved challenge required for realizing autonomous materials discovery. In this work, we develop a deep learning synthesizability model ( SynthNN ) that leverages the entire space of synthesized inorganic chemical compositions. By reformulating material discovery as a synthe...

The soil is one of the most valuable resources since it forms the foundation for many important life processes and ecosystem purposes. Worldwide, soil pollution is a result of human activities that are not sustainable, such as the use of dangerous inorganic chemicals. The mining, production, transportation, end-user use, disposal, and accidental di...

Computational chemists have taken great interest in machine learning in recent years, as techniques are being developed to produce faster predictions with higher accuracy. In 2019, Coley, et al, proposed a graph convolutional neural network (GCNN) model which predicts organic chemical reactions with 85\% accuracy. By creating graphs with atoms as n...

Computational chemists have taken great interest in machine learning in recent years, as techniques are being developed to produce faster predictions with higher accuracy. In 2019, Coley, et al, proposed a graph convolutional neural network (GCNN) model which predicts organic chemical reactions with 85\% accuracy. By creating graphs with atoms as n...

The potential impact of heavy metals, pesticide residues and numerous adulterants on food security is one of the most important public health issues worldwide. Because of their toxicity, non-biodegradability and persistence, heavy metals are very dangerous. Heavy metals are inorganic chemical hazards, and those most commonly found at contaminated s...

This protocol outlines a procedure for the preparation of both wet and dry soil samples for X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) inorganic chemical analysis. The accurate analysis of soil samples is essential for understanding elemental composition and its implications for various environmental studies. Proper preparation ensures reliable and reproducible resu...

The longer the nutrients in the soil will decrease. Lack of nutrients needed by plants can be overcome by fertilization. Fertilizers used can be in the form of organic fertilizers and inorganic/chemical fertilizers (NPK). This study aims to determine the effect of a combination of organic and inorganic fertilizers on the growth and production of hy...

The population of the world is steadily increasing, in contrast to the natural resources which are limited and subjected to further depletion. This induces pressures to develop effective agricultural production systems to meet the growing demands on food and, thus, to mitigate hunger and poverty worldwide. Generally, inorganic fertilizers play a cr...

Kraft lignin, a by-product from the production of pulp, is currently incinerated in the recovery boiler during the chemical recovery cycle, generating valuable bioenergy and recycling inorganic chemicals to the pulping process operation. Removing lignin from the black liquor or its gasification lowers the recovery boiler load enabling increased pul...

Big Leaf Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) is a tropical plant commonly found growing wild in teak forests and areas near the coast. This plant is also known for its resilience, meaning it can withstand harsh and arid soil conditions. Even without watering for months, mahogany can still survive. The propagation of this plant can be done through seed...

The Earth's atmosphere is composed of an enormous variety of chemical species associated with trace gases and aerosol particles whose composition and chemistry have critical impacts on the Earth's climate, air quality, and human health. Mass spectrometry analysis as a powerful and popular analytical technique has been widely developed and applied i...

Environmental collapse is a universal issue in today's fast-paced culture. Polluted environments brought on by anthropogenic activity (mine, oil, agricultural spray, and fertilisation) are harmful to both humans and the biosphere. Urban soil and water contamination from fast urbanization is increasingly acting as a sink for a range of contaminants,...

div class="section abstract"> Ammonia, which is one of the most produced inorganic chemicals worldwide, has gained significant attention in recent years as a carbon-free fuel due to its significant energy density in maritime and power plant applications. This fuel offers several advantages including low production costs and being safe for storage a...

To develop targeted yield-based integrated nutrient recommendation of sesame, soil test-based crop response field studies on major nutrients were undertaken during two consecutive seasons (2016 and 2017) in an Inceptisol. For this, quantitative estimations of basic parameters viz. nutrient requirement (NR), percentage contribution of nutrients from...

It is challenging to grow atomically thin non-van der Waals perovskite due to the strong electronic coupling between adjacent layers. Here, we present a colloid-driven low supersaturation crystallization strategy to grow atomically thin Cs3Bi2Br9. The colloid solution drives low-concentration solute in a supersaturation state, contributing to initi...

Green plants are one of nature's factories, fixing inorganic chemicals into organic compounds through photosynthesis and other reactions. Microbes are one of the nature's most effective tools, converting organic materials-dead plants and animals-into inorganic forms through decomposition and mineralization. Together, green plants and microbes are r...

Calcium chloride (CaCl2) is an inorganic chemical from the chloride group, and it is widely used as one of snow removal agents on the road in winter. Laboratory experiments were conducted to examine the effects of the road salt (NaCl) on soil organisms (a soil animal, microorganisms, and plankton). The soil dwelling Armadillidium vulgare died from...

The soil is one of the most valuable resources since it forms the foundation for many important life processes and ecosystem purposes. Worldwide, soil pollution is a result of human activities that are not sustainable, such as the use of dangerous inorganic chemicals. The mining, production, transportation, end-user use, disposal, and accidental di...

The recently developed time of flight-aerosol chemical speciation monitor with the capture vaporizer and a PM2.5 aerodynamic lens (TOF-ACSM-CV-PM2.5) aims to improve the collection efficiency and chemical characterization of aerosol particles with a diameter smaller than 2.5 µm. In this study, comprehensive cross-comparisons were performed between...

A comparative study was performed to estimate biogas production from sludge produced by organic and inorganic chemically enhanced primary treatments (CEPTs). To this end, the effects of two coagulants, polyaluminum chloride (PACl) and Moringa oleifera (MO), on CEPT and biogas production in anaerobic digestion were surveyed within an incubation peri...

Tannery effluents are containing harmful inorganic chemical substances such as chlorides, sulphides, chromium, lead, mercury, nitrogenous compounds and tannins as well as trace organic chemicals. The increased use of synthetic chemicals like dyes and finishing agents are mainly responsible for these pollutants. In the last few decades, pollution fr...

The soil has been constantly exposed to a variety of contaminants and their mixtures in various concentrations, organic/inorganic chemical exposure, which mainly includes pesticides and their mixtures of monomers), which contaminate the soil to a greater extent and can also be transported within the soil and transfer the mixed contaminants, integra...

The omnipresence of microplastics in the environment has attracted a global attention. The scale of the problem cause by microplastic contamination of the environment led to “plastic” inclusion in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDG). However, there are no targets set so far on microplastics. A significant volume of literature...

The use of pesticides, fungicides, herbicides in conventional agriculture, ensued food produce for all. But there were followed by many harmful consequences. Major obstacle emerged about quality of food. Moreover, initially India had subsistence type of farming but as the dependence on food grains increased with increasing population it had automat...

Identification of sources and transport pathways of heavy metals and major ions is crucial for effective water quality monitoring, particularly in large river systems. The Ganges river basin, the largest and the most populous river basin in India, remains poorly studied in this regard. We conducted a basin-level analysis of major ions, heavy metals...

The operational efficiency of a coal-fired boiler is strongly dependent on the type of coal fuel used for firing the boiler. The coal quality is based on its characteristics i.e., organic, inorganic chemical composition , and heating value. This study investigates the operational effectiveness of the coal-fired boiler used for steam generation oper...

The chemical recovery cycle is essential for every pulp mill producing pulp via chemical pulping. The purpose of this cycle is to recover inorganic chemicals used for pulping that can facilitate heat and electric energy cogeneration. New methods such as white liquor oxidation or black liquor gasification can increase the efficiency of the cycle and...

Geopolymers are inorganic, chemically resistant aluminosilicate-based binding agents, which remove hazardous metal ions from exposed aqueous media. However, the removal efficiency of a given metal ion and the potential ion remobilization have to be assessed for individual geopolymers. Therefore, copper ions (Cu2+) were removed by a granulated, meta...

Natural resources are in short supply, and the ecosystem is being damaged as a result of the overuse of fossil fuels. The creation of novel technology is greatly desired for investigating renewable and sustainable energy sources. Microorganisms have received a lot of interest recently for their potential to transform organic waste into sustainable...

Nano technology is a new novel approach to enhance agricultural production with improved quality, biological support, financial stability and environmental safety. Eco-friendly technology is rising progressively important in the present modern agriculture as alternatives to chemical pesticides and traditional fertilizers. Nano technology offers a s...

Tremendous increase in the population all over the world had increased the use of resources to a great extent and hence increase in the environmental pollution collectively, hence effective method must be implemented which has to be ecofriendly as to conserve the nature. The most convenient methods to reduce these contaminants is Bioremediation whi...

The decomposition of organic matter(OM) into dissolved organic matter(DOM) isaccomplished by a series of bacterial extracellular enzymes, which can also be affected by nitrogen and phosphorus. There have been many studies on the molecular weight, source, humification characteristics, decomposition and transformation of OM, but fewer studies on the...

This study assessed the human footprint on the chemical pollution of Antarctic waters by characterizing inorganic chemicals and selected organic anthropogenic contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in inland freshwater and coastal seawater and the associated ecotoxicological risk. Nicotine and tolytriazole, present in 74% and 89% of the samples an...

During its 25 years of existence, the Inorganic Analysis Working Group of the Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance: Metrology in Chemistry and Biology (CCQM IAWG) has achieved much in establishing comparability of measurement results. Impressive work has been done on comparison exercises related to real-world problems in fields such as ec...

The inorganic chemical parameters in drinking water that include heavy metals are substances that exist in nature very widespread, nevertheless toxic metals such as lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, are very harmful to human health and to all forms of life, these toxic metals are silents contaminants. Therefore, the present study aims to determine t...

The present investigation assessed the consequences of long-term organic and inorganic nutrient amendments on carbon sequestering potential and biological attributes of Indian semi-arid tropical soils under three different cropping systems. We used soil samples from four long-term nutrient management adoptions, i.e., absolute control, inorganic che...

Mnemonic is a memory device, which helps to remember something for a long time in the human memory. We remember different colors of the spectrum by ‘VIBGYOR', so, ‘VIBGYOR' acts as a useful mnemonic to remember the colors of the spectrum. In this article, time economic mnemonics have been discussed to create interest and remove the phobia of specta...

Sagebrush's organic layer extract was used alongside microfluidic equipment and a solvent mixture of organic and inorganic chemicals to isolate four unique chemicals. The extracts from the water layer were thrown out because they didn't contain anything the scientists could use. By using different solvents such chloroform, ethyl acetate, methanol,...

According to British Lung Foundation indoor air pollution is connected with toxic gases, various oxidative dusts, volatile organic (VOCs) and inorganic chemicals in the indoor air of buildings. Indoor spaces are considered houses, where people spent 85% of their time every day, workplaces, cars and public places (schools, hospitals, etc). Polluted...

Phosphorus (P) interacts with soil constituents in many ways, forming compounds of distinct stabilities in a number of chemical inorganic and organic forms. The identification of these P compounds in tropical agro-ecosystems is especially relevant to understanding potential P availability in these common P-fixing soils, providing information to imp...

Coupling electromagnetic radiation with matter, e.g., by resonant light fields in external optical cavities, is highly promising for tailoring the optoelectronic properties of functional materials on the nanoscale. Here, we demonstrate that even internal fields induced by coherent lattice motions can be used to control the transient excitonic optic...

The cosmetic market in Nigeria is currently flooded with a variety of cosmetic products in response to the high demands for such products. Certain chemicals that are part of cosmetic formulations have been found to be harmful, and the usage of cosmetic products containing such chemicals portends danger for human health. Sadly, in spite of the regul...

Reliably identifying synthesizable inorganic crystalline materials is an unsolved challenge required for realizing autonomous materials discovery. In this work, we develop a deep learning synthesizability model ( SynthNN ) that leverages the entire corpus of synthesized inorganic chemical compositions. By reformulating material discovery as a synth...

The present investigation assessed the consequences of long-term organic and inorganic nutrient amendments on carbon sequestering potential and biological attributes of Indian semi-arid tropical soils under three different cropping systems. We used soil samples from four long-term nutrient management adoptions, i.e., absolute control, inorganic che...

Oxide melts are basic media in materials preparation, high-temperature processing and hot corrosion. The melt structure is essential to understand oxide melt properties and plays a fundamental role in ceramic preparation and tailoring. In this work, the rich living radicals in oxide melts were discovered and verified by the variation in the dissolu...

The ultraviolet absorption spectra of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) can be used to trace its sources and to explore the dynamic of the CDOM pool. In previous studies, only the spectra above 240 nm can be used directly to characterize the CDOM in seawater, due to the overlapping of CDOM absorption spectra below 240 nm with inorganic c...

Due to the constant growth of the human population and anthropological activity, it has become necessary to use sustainable and affordable technologies that satisfy the current and future demand for agricultural products. Since the nutrients available to plants in the soil are limited and the need to increase the yields of the crops is desirable, t...

Magnesium hydroxide (MOH) is a widely used inorganic chemical owing to its various properties. Hence, researchers have long studied its synthesis and its unique features. However, the morphological consequences have rarely been studied. Despite having several benefits for synthesizing nanoparticles, the hydrothermal method’s main drawbacks are its...

This work evaluates the effect of using selected inorganic chemicals as the main components of waterborne wood preservative systems on the degradation of the cellulose constituent in wood from model samples. The polymeric properties of cellulose and the homogeneity of the degradation process primarily reflect very well the degree of cellulose deter...

Introduction Organic manure, plant growth-promoting microorganisms, and biocontrol agents are widely used to sustainably control soil-borne diseases. However, how and whether organic manure inoculated with biocontrol agents alters soil microbiota and reduces disease severity is poorly understood. Methods Here, we examined changes to the soil micro...

A multi-agency study of 438 organic and 62 inorganic chemicals measured in urban stormwater during 50 total runoff events at 21 sites across the United States demonstrated that stormwater discharges...

Worldwide water streams are used as primary means for waste disposal, especially industrial effluents. Effluents released from these industries comprise of toxic metals, organic and inorganic chemicals that are discharged to water bodies. Heavy metal contamination is worse due to high sustainability of metal ions. Due to increasing pollution load i...

Chromium is a transition metal with a wide range of applications in leather tanning, textile, electroplating, stainless steel production, inorganic chemical production and wood preservation industries due to yellow colouration, corrosion resistance, higher melting-point and crystalline structure with raging of oxidation states from 0 to +6. Trivale...

Petroleum-derived plastics are linked to a variety of growing environmental issues throughout their lifecycle, including emission of greenhouse gases, accumulation in terrestrial and marine habitats, pollution, among others. There has been a lot of attention over the last decade in industrial and research communities in developing and producing eco...

Worldwide ever-augmenting urbanization, modernization, and industrialization have contributed to the release of pernicious compounds and a variety of pollutants into the environment. The pollutants discharged due to industrialization are of global concern. Industrial waste and effluent are comprised of hazardous organic and inorganic chemicals incl...