Physicochemical Performance of Portland-Rice Husk Ash-Calcined Clay-Dried Acetylene Lime Sludge Cement in Sulphate and Chloride Media by Jackson Muthengia Wachira, Joseph Karanja Thiong’o, Joseph Mwiti Marangu, Leonard Genson Murithi

“…In chloride solutions, the cement exhibited the highest leach in the selected ions except K+ and Na+ ions. The results further showed that PCDC exhibited lower pH in all the media compared to OPC and PPC. …”
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Chemical Characteristics of Precipitation in a Typical Urban Site of the Hinterland in Three Gorges Reservoir, China by Liuyi Zhang, Baoqing Qiao, Huanbo Wang, Mi Tian, Jian Cui, Chuan Fu, Yimin Huang, Fumo Yang

“…Major water-soluble ions were analyzed for two-year precipitation samples in Wanzhou, a typical urban site of the hinterland of Chinese Three Gorges Reservoir. …”
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Effect of hydrophobic corrosion inhibitor on the cement hydration and leaching resistance of shotcrete by Wei Wang, Junsong Chen, Shuang Zhao, Luping Zeng, Jingshun Cai, Song Mu, Jinxiang Hong, Min Qiao

“…Moreover, hydrophobic corrosion inhibitor could reduce the water absorption rate and chloride ions diffusion coefficient of shotcrete specimens, indicating its excellent hydrophobicity. …”
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Synthesis, Spectral Characterization, and Thermal and Cytotoxicity Studies of Cr(III), Ru(III), Mn(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), and Zn(II) Complexes of Schiff Base Derived from 5-H... by Amani S. Alturiqi, Abdel-Nasser M. A. Alaghaz, Reda A. Ammar, Mohamed E. Zayed

“…Coordination compounds of Cr(III), Ru(III), Mn(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), and Zn(II) ions were synthesized from the furan ligand [5-hydroxymethylfuran-2-yl-methyleneaminoquinolin-2-one] (H-MFMAQ) derived from the condensation of 5-hydroxymethylfuran-2-carbaldehyde and 1-aminoquinolin-2(1H)-one. …”
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Plasma Parameters Effects on Dust Acoustic Solitary Waves in Dusty Plasmas of Four Components by Abeer A. Mahmoud, Essam M. Abulwafa, Abd-alrahman F. Al-Araby, Atalla M. Elhanbaly

“…The presence and propagation of dust-acoustic solitary waves in dusty plasma contains four components such as negative and positive dust species beside ions and electrons are studied. Both the ions and electrons distributions are represented applying nonextensive formula. …”
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Hydrothermal synthesis of a nickel-oxide-infused orange peel nanobiocomposite for enhanced heavy metal removal from mining wastewater by Jacques Romain Njimou, Velma Fai, Mary Tamwa Sieugaing, Djimongbaye Nguenamadje, John Godwin, Oben Bessem Genola, Guy Bertrand Noumi, Bankim Chandra Tripathy

“…Heavy metals in various geochemical forms, such as exchangeable ions, carbonates, and oxides, pose significant risks to human health and the environment due to their persistence and bioaccumulation. …”
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Facile Synthesis of Graphene Oxide/Titanate Nanotube Composites and Their Application for Cobalt(II) Removal by Min-Da Xu, Zhen Jin, Wen-Jie Xie, De-Cai Wang, Guang-Song Xu, Ai-Jing Wang, Ran Zhang, Jian Huang

“…However, the existences of Cu2+, Cd2+, and Pb2+ ions would clearly have an effect on the Co(II) adsorption of the GTNT composites. …”
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Acridine-2,4-Dinitrophenyl Hydrazone Conjugated Silver Nanoparticles as an Efficient Sensor for Quantification of Mercury in Tap Water by Imdad Ali, Ibanga Okon Isaac, Mahmood Ahmed, Farid Ahmed, Farhat Ikram, Muhammad Ateeq, Rima D. Alharthy, Muhammad Imran Malik, Abdul Hameed, Muhammad Raza Shah

“…Among all the added metal ions, only Hg2+resulted in significant quenching in the absorption intensity of ACR-AgNPs. …”
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Chloride Diffusion and Induced Reinforcement Corrosion in Concrete with Fly Ash and Ground-Granulated Blast-Furnace Slag Exposed to Marine Submerged Zone by Rui Zhao, Zuquan Jin, Guangyan Feng, Jianqiang Li

“…This paper investigates the influence of mineral admixtures fly ash (FA) and ground-granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS), the byproducts of industry, on chloride ions migration and corrosion resistance performance. …”
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Effect of Brewing Water on the Antioxidant Capacity of Green Tea Infusion with DPPH Assay by Qing-Qing Cao, Yan-Qing Fu, Cheng-Bin Zhang, Yan Zhu, Jun-Feng Yin, Daniel Granato, Predrag Putnik, Yong-Quan Xu

“…These results offered theoretical direction to the selection of tea brewing water for consumers and gave a new sight to the effects of metal ions on the antioxidant capacity of EGCG.…”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles and Applications in the Removal of Heavy Metals from Industrial Wastewater by Zuolian Cheng, Annie Lai Kuan Tan, Yong Tao, Dan Shan, Kok Eng Ting, Xi Jiang Yin

“…Batch experiments were carried out for the removal of Pb2+ ions from aqueous solutions by maghemite nanoparticles. …”
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Kinetics and mechanism of the reaction of gold(III) chloride complexes with formic acid by Pacławski K., Sak T.

“…Obtained data suggest the complex character of the reaction which leads to the [AuCl2]- and [AuCl3(COOH)]- ions formation as intermediates. In the pH range over 2.5, the final product of the reaction is metallic gold. …”
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Utilization of Mangifera indica as Substrate to Bioremediate the Toxic Metals and Generate the Bioenergy through a Single-Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell by Sundas Bahar Yaqoob, Showkat Ahmad Bhawani, Rokhsana Mohammed Ismail Abdulrahman

“…The remediation performance varied with the metal ions as follows: Pb (II) shows 75%, Cd (II) shows 74.11%, and Cr (III) shows 80.50%. …”
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Molecular Dynamics Simulation to Understand the Ability of Anionic Polymers to Alter the Morphology of Calcite by Insil Choi, Il Won Kim

“…Molecular dynamics was utilized to investigate the ability of anionic macromolecules to drastically change the morphology of calcite in the presence of magnesium ions. Anionic poly(acrylic acid) and poly(methacrylic acid) were compared with cationic poly(ethylene imine) in their binding behavior on calcite (104) and (110) surfaces. …”
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Probing a new regime of ultra-dense gluonic matter using high-energy photons with the CMS experiment by Verma Pranjal

“…In ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) involving relativistic heavy ions, the production of heavy-flavor coherent vector mesons through photon-nuclear interactions is a key focus due to its direct sensitivity to the nuclear gluon density. …”
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Recognition Preference of Rhodamine Derivative Bearing Phthalimido Gly for Hg2+ by UV-Vis and Fluorescence Spectroscopy by Fanyong Yan, Meng Wang, Donglei Cao, Ning Yang, Bin Ma, Li Chen

“…In addition, the effects of pH, coexisting metal ions, and the reversibility were investigated in detail.…”
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Design and development of a portable resistive sensor based on α‐MnO2/GQD nanocomposites for trace quantification of Pb(II) in water by Amit K. Gupta, Mansi Khanna, Souradeep Roy, Pankaj, Shalini Nagabooshanam, Ranjit Kumar, Shikha Wadhwa, Ashish Mathur

“…Abstract The occurrence of heavy metal ions in food chain is appearing to be a major problem for mankind. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of the Bi2-xHox/2Zr3x/8O3 compounds by Šulcová P., Bystrzycki P., Válek L., Trojan M.

“…A series of novel environmentally inorganic pigments based on Bi2O3 doped by metal ions such as Zr4+ and Ho3+ have been developed and characterized using of methods of thermal analysis, Xray powder diffraction and CIE L…”
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MT2A promotes angiogenesis in chronically ischemic brains through a copper–mitochondria regulatory mechanism by Ni Mo, Chuyang Tai, Yang Yang, Cong Ling, Baoyu Zhang, Lei Wei, Cian Yao, Hui Wang, Chuan Chen

“…Metallothionein 2 A (MT2A) has a high affinity for metal ions and is potentially capable of chelating toxic copper ions to alleviate the impairment of angiogenesis. …”
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Preparation and Spectral Properties of Mixed-Ligand Complexes of VO(IV), Ni(II), Zn(II), Pd(II), Cd(II) and Pb(II) with Dimethylglyoxime and N-acetylglycine by Shayma A. Shaker

“…The IR and (1H, 13C) NMR spectra which have indicate that the dimethylglyoxime was coordinated with the metal ions through the N and O atoms of the oxime group and N-acetylglycine was coordinated with metal ions through the N atom and terminal carboxyl oxygen atom.…”
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