Cation minerals

Vreugdenhil,D., Aarts,M. G. M.,Koornneef, M.,Nelissen, H., Ernst, W. H. O. (2004). Natural variation and QTL analysis for cationic mineral content in seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant, Cell Environment, 27, 828-839. 

The well-known correlation between diet and health demonstrates the great possibilities of food to maintain or even improve our health (Plaza et al, 2008). Dietary factors are very important for osteoporosis, and Ca " " is the most important cationic mineral in the bone (Aslam et al., 2010). 

Organic acids may improve the absorption of minerals, such as Ca, P, Mg and Zn, in the small intestine (Kirchgessner and Roth, 1988). The presence of anions appears to facilitate cation mineral absorption, and formic, fumaric and n-butyric acid have all been shown to improve apparent total tract digestibility of Ca and total P, as well... 

As an adjective applied to metals base represents the opposite of noble, i.e. a base metal would be attacked by mineral acids, base exchange An old term used to describe the capacity of soils, zeolites, clays, etc. to exchange their cations (Na, K, Ca ) for an equivalent of other cations without undergoing structural change. An example of the general process of ion exchange. ... 

Fluorite. CaF,. and rutile. TiO,. are minerals in CaFj, each Ca is surrounded by eight F ions, each F by tour C r ions, while in TiO, ihe corresponding co-ordination numbers are 6 and 3. Co-ordination number is generally referred to the cation. 

Aminoazobenzene is a very weak base, and consequently it will not form salts with weak organic acids, such as acetic acid, although it will do so with the strong mineral acids, such as hydrochloric acid. Aminoazobenzene is a yellowish-brown compound, whilst the hydrochloride is steel blue. The colour of the latter is presumably due to the addition of the proton to the phenyl-N-atom, the cation thus having benzenoid and quinonoid forms ... 

When either of the reactants is sensitive to mineral acids, the esterification can often be successfully accomplished with the aid of a cation exchange resin (hydrogen form) in the presence of benzene. Zeo-Karb 225/H, a unifunctional sulphonated polystyrene resin in the hydrogen form, may be used. Thus good yields of isopropyl lactate may be obtained ... 

The exchange resins 6nd application in (i) the purification of water (cation-exchange resin to remove salts, followed by anion-exchange resin to remove free mineral acids and carbonic acid), (ii) removal of inorganic impurities from organic substances, (iii) in the partial separation of amino acids, and (iv) as catalysts in organic reactions (e.g., esterification. Section 111,102, and cyanoethylation. Section VI,22). 

Starch is a polysaccharide found in many plant species. Com and potatoes are two common sources of industrial starch. The composition of starch varies somewhat in terms of the amount of branching of the polymer chains (11). Its principal use as a flocculant is in the Bayer process for extracting aluminum from bauxite ore. The digestion of bauxite in sodium hydroxide solution produces a suspension of finely divided iron minerals and siUcates, called red mud, in a highly alkaline Hquor. Starch is used to settle the red mud so that relatively pure alumina can be produced from the clarified Hquor. It has been largely replaced by acryHc acid and acrylamide-based (11,12) polymers, although a number of plants stiH add some starch in addition to synthetic polymers to reduce the level of residual suspended soHds in the Hquor. Starch [9005-25-8] can be modified with various reagents to produce semisynthetic polymers. The principal one of these is cationic starch, which is used as a retention aid in paper production as a component of a dual system (13,14) or a microparticle system (15). 

Collectors Fitting into Fattice Cavities. Lattice site fitting of collectors at sohd walls has been invoked as a means of explaining the selective behavior of amines (cationic coUectors) as reagents in the flotation-separation of soluble salt minerals such as KCl and NaCl (22). 

The basic flow sheet for the flotation-concentration of nonsulfide minerals is essentially the same as that for treating sulfides but the family of reagents used is different. The reagents utilized for nonsulfide mineral concentrations by flotation are usually fatty acids or their salts (RCOOH, RCOOM), sulfonates (RSO M), sulfates (RSO M), where M is usually Na or K, and R represents a linear, branched, or cycHc hydrocarbon chain and amines [R2N(R)3]A where R and R are hydrocarbon chains and A is an anion such as Cl or Br . Collectors for most nonsulfides can be selected on the basis of their isoelectric points. Thus at pH > pH p cationic surfactants are suitable collectors whereas at lower pH values anion-type collectors are selected as illustrated in Figure 10 (28). Figure 13 shows an iron ore flotation flow sheet as a representative of high volume oxide flotation practice. 

Cation exchangers are regenerated with mineral acids when used in the form. Sulfuric acid [8014-95-7] is preferred over hydrochloric acid [7647-01-0], HCl, in many countries because it is less expensive and less corrosive. However, the use of hydrochloric acid is the best method of overcoming precipitation problems in installations which deionize water with high concentrations of barium or calcium compared to other cations. A 4% acid concentration is common, although sulfuric acid regenerations may start as low as 0.8—1% to minimize calcium sulfate [7718-18-9] precipitation. 

Humic acids are alkaH-extractable materials and total humic acid content is a term that refers to the humic acid content of coal that has had its carboxylate cations removed with sodium pyrophosphate. Values for some typical AustraHan brown coals range from 24—92% (13). Treatment of lignitic coals with mineral acid to release the alkaH and alkaline cations may dissolve up to 20% of the coal. The naturally moist coals are slightly acidic and have a pH of 3.5—6.5. 

Fig. 2. Stmcture of the mineral 2eohte chaba2ite is depicted by packing model, left, and skeletal model, right. The sihcon and aluminum atoms He at the corners of the framework depicted by soHd lines. In this figure, and Figure 1, the soHd lines do not depict chemical bonds. Oxygen atoms He near the midpoint of the lines connecting framework corners. Cation sites are shown in three different locations referred to as sites I, II, and III.

Fig. 3. Model of the crystal structure of the mineral mordenite showing the main channel formed by 12-membered ring and small channels which contain some of the sodium cations. Synthetic types of mordenite exhibit the adsorption behavior of a 12-membered ring, whereas the mineral does not, probably...

Fig. 4. Model of the ciystal structure of zeolites X, Y, and the mineral faujasite. At the tight is shown the tetrahedral arrangement of tmncated octahedra surrounding one large cavity. On the left the packing model of zeohte X is shown, containing three types of Na cations.

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