Exchangeable phosphate

Due to the effect of plant roots and the natural or normal decomposition of soil minerals, some phosphate and other nutrients will become available [7] during the growing season and thus must be accounted for. The soluble and exchangeable phosphate (i.e., the immediately available phosphate) and that portion of the soil phosphate that will become available to plants during the growing season are determined by the Olson extractant. A typical base extraction of soil nutrients is given in Procedure 11.7 ... 

Related proteins occur in other tissues.488 The 911-residue band 3 protein consists of two distinct parts of nearly equal size. The N-terminal portion is attached to the membrane skeleton (Fig. 8-16). The C-terminal part, which is embedded in the membrane, is thought to form 14 transmembrane helices and to contain the ion exchange channel or channels.4893 As previously mentioned, defects in the N-terminal portion cause spherocytosis. The mutation Arg 589 His in the C-terminal half causes renal tubular acidosis in which the kidneys do not adequately remove acids from the body.238 489 Band 3 proteins can also exchange phosphate, sulfate, and phosphoenolpyruvate for Cl or bicarbonate. 

The inner mitochondrial membrane may function primarily as a calcium sink, taking up excess calcium in the cytosol that results from hormonal activation of the cell. At cytosolic Ca + concentrations greater than 0.6 /rmol/L, the mitochondrial calcium pump is activated and stores calcium in the mitochondrial matrix as a nonionic, rapidly exchangeable, phosphate salt. At low cytosolic calcium concentrations, the inner mitochondrial membrane allows Ca + to leak into the cytosol. The capacity of the active influx pathway (the pump) is much greater than that of the passive efflux route (the leak). The mitochondrial pump-leak system may serve to fine-tune the cytosolic calcium concentration while the plasma membrane is the principal safeguard against entry of toxic amounts of calcium into the cell. 

On the other hand, the liable pool exchanges phosphate comparatively slowly with the insoluble compounds in the fixed phase. 

AMP-1 4.0 Microcrystalline ammonium molybdo-phosphate with cation exchange capacity of 1.2 mequiv/g. Selectively adsorbs larger alkali metal ions from smaller alkali metal ions, particularly cesium. 

S. cerevisiae is produced by fed-batch processes in which molasses supplemented with sources of nitrogen and phosphoms, such as ammonia, ammonium sulfate, ammonium phosphate, and phosphoric acid, are fed incrementally to meet nutritional requirements of the yeast during growth. Large (150 to 300 m ) total volume aerated fermentors provided with internal coils for cooling water are employed in these processes (5). Substrates and nutrients ate sterilized in a heat exchanger and then fed to a cleaned—sanitized fermentor to minimize contamination problems. 

Deamidation of soy and other seed meal proteins by hydrolysis of the amide bond, and minimization of the hydrolysis of peptide bonds, improves functional properties of these products. For example, treatment of soy protein with dilute (0.05 A/) HCl, with or without a cation-exchange resin (Dowex 50) as a catalyst (133), with anions such as bicarbonate, phosphate, or chloride at pH 8.0 (134), or with peptide glutaminase at pH 7.0 (135), improved solubiHty, whipabiHty, water binding, and emulsifying properties. 

The purification of the galHum salt solutions is carried out by solvent extraction and/or by ion exchange. The most effective extractants are dialkyl-phosphates in sulfate medium and ethers, ketones (qv), alcohols, and trialkyl-phosphates in chloride medium. Electrorefining, ie, anodic dissolution and simultaneous cathodic deposition, is also used to purify metallic galHum. 

Mesityl oxide can also be produced by the direct condensation of acetone at higher temperatures. This reaction can be operated ia the vapor phase over 2iac oxide (182), or 2iac oxide—2irconium oxide (183), or ia the Hquid phase over cation-exchange resia (184) or 2irconium phosphate (185). Other catalysts are known (186). 

Hydrolysis is a significant threat to phosphate ester stabiHty as moisture tends to cause reversion first to a monoacid of the phosphate ester ia an autocatalytic reaction. In turn, the fluid acidity can lead to corrosion, fluid gelation, and clogged filters. Moisture control and filtration with Fuller s earth, activated alumina, and ion-exchange resias are commonly used to minimise hydrolysis. Toxicity questions have been minimised ia current fluids by avoiding triorthocresyl phosphate which was present ia earlier natural fluids (38). 

Chemical precipitation and solvent extraction are the main methods of purifying wet-process acid, although other techniques such as crystallisa tion (8) and ion exchange (qv) have also been used. In the production of sodium phosphates, almost all wet-process acid impurities can be induced to precipitate as the acid is neutralized with sodium carbonate or sodium hydroxide. The main exception, sulfate, can be precipitated as calcium or barium sulfate. Most fluorine and siUca can be removed with the sulfate filter cake as sodium fluorosiUcate, Na2SiFg, by the addition of sodium ion and control of the Si/F ratio in the process. 

The first successflil production method for the separation of Pu from U and its fission products was the bismuth phosphate process, based on the carrying of Pu by a precipitate of BiPO (126). That process has been superseded by Hquid-Hquid extraction (qv) and ion exchange (qv). In the Hquid-Hquid... 

Hardness can also be calculated by summation of the individually deterrnined alkaline earths by means of atomic absorption analysis. Basic samples must be acidified, and lanthanum chloride must be added to minimise interferences from phosphate, sulfate, and aluminum. An ion-selective electrode that utilizes ahquid ion exchanger is also available for hardness measurement however, this electrode is susceptible to interferences from other dissolved metal ions. 

Sodium hydrogen zirconium phosphate [34370-53-17 is an ion-exchange material used in portable kidney dialysis systems which regenerate and reckculate the dialysate solution. The solution picks up urea during the dialysis. The urea reacts with urease to form ammonia, which is absorbed by the sodium hydrogen zirconium phosphate. 

The main interest in zirconium phosphates relates to their ion-exchange properties. If amorphous zirconium phosphate is equiUbrated with sodium hydroxide to pH 7, one hydrogen is displaced and ZrNaH(P0 2 3H20 [13933-56-7] is obtained. The spacing between the zirconium layers is increased from 0.76 to 1.18 nm, which allows this phosphate to exchange larger ions. 

The gels precipitated as described above are not useful in ion-exchange systems because their fine size impedes fluid flow and allows particulate entrainment. Controlled larger-sized particles of zirconium phosphate are obtained by first producing the desired particle size zirconium hydrous oxide by sol—gel techniques or by controlled precipitation of zirconium basic sulfate. These active, very slightly soluble compounds are then slurried in phosphoric acid to produce zirconium bis (monohydrogen phosphate) and subsequently sodium zirconium hydrogen phosphate pentahydrate with the desired hydrauhc characteristics (213,214). 

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