Congo Zaire

Imported Inorganic Chemical Elements, Oxides and Halogen Salts in Congo (Zaire), 

Country of Origin Rank Value (000 US ) % Share Cumulative % 

Source Philip M. PARKER, Professor, INSEAD, copyright 2002, www.icongrouponline.com 

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Dewevrei (de Wild, et Th. Dur.) Brem. Gabon, Congo, Zaire (1,2) insculpta (Hutch, et Dalz.) Brem. Nigeria (1)... 

Uraninite, or pitchblende as it is more commonly known, is the form in which uranium was first discovered, at Joachimsthal, Czechoslovakia. Later, very rich deposits of massive uraninite were discovered at the Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and were the principal source of uranium for the Manhattan Project. Leaner ores containing finely divided... 

Congo (Zaire) Fan 31 ff, 74,86,112,152,241/ 520 Congo (Zaire) River 86,112,152, 242 Congo-Angola Basin 489 Conrad Rise 64/... 

The product has been reported to be substantially more effective than superphosphate on several acid tropical soils in Costa Rica, Liberia, Congo, Zaire, Ghana, and Malawi perhaps because of its alkalinity and resistance... 

Dhetchuvi, J. B. (1996). Taxonomic et phy tog ographie des Marantaceae et des Zingiberaceae de I Afrique Centrale (Gabon, Congo, Zaire, Rwanda et Brundi). PhD Thesis, University Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique. 

Crossland, J. L., Crossland, C. J., Swaney, D. P. (2006). Congo (Zaire) river estuary. Democratic Republic of the Congo. Retrieved April 21, 2009, from http //nest.su.se/mnode/ Africa/Congo/Congobud.htm... 

ADFL Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire... 

In 1995, an outbreak of Ebola VHF affected more than three hundred people in and around the city of Kikwit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the former Zaire) and approximately 80 percent of the victims died. An international investigation team worked with local authorities to introduce VHF isolation precautions as well as standard precautions. When the types of precaution featured in the manual mentioned above were installed in Kikwit, no further nosocomial (hospital) transmission of the Ebola virus was documented. 

Cobalt ranks number 33 in abundance of the elements in the earth s crust, which contains on average 20-pg Co/g, although soil levels of up to 2000- J,g Co/g are found in Zaire and New Zealand. Significant deposits of cobalt are found in Canada, Russia, Zambia, and Congo, with these countries accounting for approximately 65% of the current total world supply. Smaller deposits are found in Cuba, New Caledonia, and Australia. Cobalt does not exist as the free metal in nature, but occurs in approximately 200 ores, of which smaltite (C0AS2), cobaltite (CoAsS), and linnaeite (C03S4) are commercially important. 

Indonesia ranks third, after Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), in its area of tropical forest. Of Indonesia s total land area of 1.9 Mkm, current forest cover estimates range from 0.9 Mkm to 1.2 Mkm, or 48% to 69% of the total. Forests dominate the landscape of Indonesia (Makarim et al., 1998). Large areas of Indonesian forests burned in 1982 and 1983. In Kalimantan alone, the fires burned from 2.4 Mha to 3.6 Mha of forests (Makarim et al, 1998). It is interesting to note that there is an uncertainty of 1.2 Mha or an uncertainty of 50% in our knowledge of the burned area of fires that occurred 16 yr ago ... 

Jenkins G. S., Mohr K., Morris V. R., and Arino O. (1997) The role of convective processes over the Zaire—Congo Basin to the southern hemispheric ozone maximum. J. Geophys. Res. 102, 18963-18980. 

The Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis) is a very rare, little-known species of tropical forests of Zaire. The discovery of this species in 1936 created a sensation, because it could scarcely be believed that such a large, beautiful bird had not been seen by naturalists prior to that time. 

Radium. Ra at. wt 226 (mass number of most stable isotope) at. no. 88 valence 2. A radioactive alkaline earth meta], Occurrence in earth s crust approx ]0-d% by wt. Natural isotopes 223, actinium X 224, thorium X 226 228, mesothorium 1. 22 Ra is a product of disintegration of uranium and is present in al] ores contg uranium. Separated in the form of a salt by P. and M. S. Curie from the pitchblende nf Joachimsthal, Bohemia Curie et at.. Compt. Rend. 127, 12]5 (1898). [soln of the element by electrolysis of an aq soln of radium chloride Curie, Debierne. ibid. 151, 523 (1910). 12 Ra iT, 6.7 years) produced by disintegration of thorium (I12Th) discovered in 1907 by O. Hahn in monazite residues from isolating thorium. Zaire (Congo) is the main producer of radium, Canada next. Clinical evaluation in... 

Zabel M. and Schulz H.D. (2001) Importance of submarine landslides for non steady state conditions in pore water systems — lower Zaire (Congo) deep-sea fan. Marine Geology, 176, pp. 87-99... 

The 14th of April, 1995, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). A 36-year-old laboratory technician checked into the medical clinic in Kikwit, complaining of a severe headache, stomach pains, fever, dizziness, weakness, and exhaustion [6]. 

The Kikwit Ebola outbreak was neither the first nor the last appearance of this dread disease. The first recognized Ebola epidemic occurred in 1976 in Yambuku, Zaire (near the Ebola River, after which the virus was named), where at least 280 people died. Three years later, 22 patients died in Sudan from a slightly different and less virulent form of Ebola. In 1996, about 100 people were killed by Ebola in two separate episodes in Gabon, and in 1999, an outbreak in the gold mining town of Durba in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 63 people. 

Ebola virus was first identified in 1976 when two outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF) occurred in northern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) and. southern Sudan. The outbreaks involved what eventually proved to be two different species of Ebola virus both were named after the nations in which they were discovered. Both viruses showed themselves to be highly lethal, as 90% of the Zairian cases and 50% of the Sudanese cases resulted in death. 

The disease is caused by infection with Ebola virus, named after a river in the Democratic Republic of tbe Congo (formerly Zaire) in Africa, where it was first recognized. The virus is one of two members of a family of RN.A viruses called the Filovtridae. There are four identified subtypes of Ebola virus. Three of the four have caused disease in humans Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, and Ebola-Ivory Coast. The fourth, Ebola-Reston. has caused disease in nonhuman primates, but not in humans. 

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