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Effect of Acid Treatment on the Chemical Properties of Clays from Selected Sites in Murang’a and Nyeri counties, Kenya
(2020-11-30)
Assessing improvement on the quality of clay has been conducted by treatment with different concentrations of hydrochloric and oxalic acid. This project intended to assess the effect of acid treatment on the elemental ...
Antimicrobial Activity of Root Bark Extracts of Rhus natalensisa and Rhus ruspolii
(Scientific & Academic Publishing, 2019-08)
Bacteria and fungi are frequent causes of serious opportunistic infections worldwide. Several effective antibiotic drugs are in the market. However, drug-resistance, side effects and cost of such antibiotics limits their ...
Characterization of Clays from selected sites for Refractory Application
(2019-11)
Clay is a stony or earthy mineral aggregate composed of
fine-grained minerals, which are plastic at appropriate water
content and hardens up when fired. Clay soils have various
mineral groups such as kaolinite, smectites, ...
Impure Hydrazone Preparation from Chicken Dung
(IISTE, 2020-09-30)
Hydrazones are strong reducing agents. Some hydrazones like hydrazine are is highly toxic and unstable and are therefore found dissolved in water. Chicken dung contains amines and uric acid that are potential sources of ...
Some Antibacterial and Antifungal Compounds from Root Bark of Rhus natalensis
(Scientific & Academic Publishing, 2019-09)
Phytochemical studies on Rhus natalensis root bark collected from Iten, Kenya led to isolation and characterization of five compounds namely epicatechin (1), 3-sitosterol (2), 3-sitosterol glucoside (3),stigmasterol (4) ...