Practical scope of modern-day colloid science may be presented through a set of achievements and actual aims in preparation of novel materials and ...

Sample preparation plays an essential role in analytical procedures. The estimated errors of measurement methods commonly used are usual below 20%....

This book covers the physics and chemistry of surfaces. The scope includes the structure, thermodynamics, and mobility of clean surfaces, as well a...

This book focuses on studying the growth, properties and applications of inorganic, organic and molecular thin films. Inorganic thin films are impo...

Tritium, 3H (T), is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. Naturally occurring tritium is rare on Earth, where trace amounts are formed by the interact...

Tritium is a radioactive hydrogen isotope that is of interest for both civil and military applications. Most of tritium is used for the realisation...

This book provides an overview of the uses of turquoise in native arts of the Southwest, beginning with the earliest people who mined and processed...

Parkinson's disease is the second most prevalent aging-related neurodegenerative disorder. Cell death in the substantia nigra, a motor region of th...

This book investigates time as it affects taphonomy. All taphonomic agents operate through time, which may be long or short, so time adds another d...

The word revolution has a number of definitions (The American Heritage Dictionary, 2006). The one most pertinent to this series and volume is 'a su...

This is the second volume in this series which is devoted to the memory of World Renowned Scientist professor Rusanov Alexander L'vovich. The autho...

Uranium has both radioactive and chemical hazards and risk assessments must address both types. Its environmental distribution depends on natural o...

Interest in vanadium has increased in recent decades because of its presence in suspended particles resulting from fuel combustion, and because of ...

Remediation of subsurface contamination is an up-to-date subject, due to the high number of contaminated sites in all developed countries. Risk ass...

Vegetable oils are hydrophobic compounds, such as tryacylglicerols and essential oils extracted from plants that have been used by humans for centu...

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) have anthropogenic and biogenic origins. At the Earth's scale, the natural sources represent a great part of the ...

For last five years polymers have revolutionised all spheres of human endeavour and, therefore, have been the focus of intense investigation by aca...

Weathered crust elution - deposited rare earth ore (original name is the ion-adsorbed rare earth ore) was first discovered as a novel exogenous ore...

Increased concentrations of organic pollutants in waters can result from the growth of certain industrial activities. In order to develop a fast el...

This book presents recent developments about lignin documented with world renown researchers. The book is divided into 3 parts: a.Lignin Extraction...

X-Ray Fluorescence: Technology, Performance and Applications opens with a study wherein the possibilities of polarizing energy dispersive X-ray flu...

Ytterbium: Characteristics, Production and Applications outlines the properties and uses of ytterbium, focusing on its isotopic characteristics and...

Zeolite is a mineral that consists mainly of aluminosilicate, and its major commercial use is as a surfactant. Over the last decade, significant ef...

In Zinc Oxide: Production, Properties and Applications, the authors first provide a summary of the natural sources available for the synthesis of z...

This book presents topical research in the study of the mineralogy of zircon and olivine and their properties, production and applications. Topics ...