(1) Logging, cattle farming and soy plantations are key, plus the increased construction of dams and road, and shifting patterns of farming for local people and mining (for diamonds, bauxite, manganese, iron, tin, copper, lead and gold).
(2) The book lets you know how sewage gets around under the city streets and how aluminium is made (you have to get bauxite from Jamaica, then ship it to a place with lots of electricity, like the Pacific north west).
(3) Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties on Tuesday after the sludge, strongly caustic waste from bauxite refining, hit Kolontar, Devecser and other villages 100 miles west of the capital.
(4) Among the other campaign groups attacking the company was Survival International which continued to highlight Vedanta's efforts to mine bauxite in India's Niyamgiri hill , which an indigenous tribe considers to be sacred.
(5) Oil, gas, coal, aluminium, bauxite, nickel, iron ore, zinc, copper, grain, rice, sugar : Glencore and its subsidiaries have a hand not just in buying and selling all of these, but in producing, extracting and transporting them.
(6) Noel Pearson on Adam Goodes booing: Australia is ‘looking into the abyss’ Read more Yunupingu helped draft the first bark petition, presented to the Australian parliament in 1963 to protest bauxite mining on Yolngu land.
(7) Environmental groups accused MAL Zrt, the owner of the Ajkai Timfoldgyar alumina plant, of irresponsibility, and said they intended to block its plans to expand bauxite mining operations in Nyírád, a village in Veszprém county, western Hungary.
(8) What would happen if at some point in the future the Jamaican (or any other global south) government decided to nationalise what little bauxite (or other commodity) it has left, or to default on its IMF repayments?
(9) The opposition blames neglect and poor maintenance, while alleging mismanagement and corruption at struggling state-owned aluminium, iron and bauxite foundries in Bolivar.
(10) It's this understanding that allows us to continue to talk about money as if it were a limited resource like bauxite or petroleum, to say "there's just not enough money" to fund social programmes, to speak of the immorality of government debt or of public spending "crowding out" the private sector.
(11) Vedanta's alumina refinery is sourcing bauxite from other locations in the state, but even here it has been accused of wrongdoing.
(12) In general, levels of these and other metals were higher near a bauxite treatment plant.
(13) "Vedanta's planned bauxite mine in the holy mountain of Niyamgiri is a social and environmental disaster.
(14) The patients had worked in bauxite smelting for Al2O3 production and the preparation of synthetic abrasives (8 cases), in milling using synthetic abrasives (1 case) in the cold grinding of aluminium for paint production (3 cases) and in the electrolytic processing of aluminium (1 case).
(15) The authors examined a group of 40 miners who were being working at an Apulian bauxite mine, presently inactive.
(16) Concentrations of 226Ra, 232Th, and 40K measured in bauxite waste, local building materials, and soils are presented and used in model equations to estimate the effective gamma dose-equivalent increments over background in the center of a standard-sized room in a prototype house.
(17) The Dongria Kondh tribe yesterday appealed to Avatar director James Cameron to help them stop Vedanta from opening a nearby bauxite mine on their sacred land.
(18) Acetate hemodialysis alone, combined with hemoperfusion, or associated once a week with plasma-perfusion sessions using an activated bauxite cartridge, bicarbonate dialysis either in single pass or in recirculating system (40 L) and biofiltration, were the depurative treatments employed.
(19) A cross-sectional study of 1,142 male employees at the Arkansas Operations of a large aluminum production company examined the effect on pulmonary function of chronic exposure to total dust produced in the mining and refining of bauxite and the production of alumina chemicals.
(20) Instead it depicts – in a style that is socialist realist in inspiration – the figure of a miner in big boots and helmet, weight behind a drill, marking the passing of the region's bauxite mines, the last of which closed in 1990.
Hydroxide
Definition:
(n.) A hydrate; a substance containing hydrogen and oxygen, made by combining water with an oxide, and yielding water by elimination. The hydroxides are regarded as compounds of hydroxyl, united usually with basic element or radical; as, calcium hydroxide ethyl hydroxide.
Example Sentences:
(1) A retrospective study was done in 86 patients on dialysis in order to evaluate the doses of aluminum hydroxide (OH3 Al) received to achieve a better serum phosphate control.
(2) Examination on day 9 and 15 the magaldrate group showed significantly (p less than 0.05) lower aluminium levels than the aluminium hydroxide group.
(3) A model for the binuclear iron center of ribonucleotide reductase is presented in which the hydroxide ligand sites provide an explanation for the half-of-sites reactivity of the enzyme.
(4) The purpose of this study was to evaluate bone reactions to implants of hydroxyapatite, collagen, and calcium hydroxide, alone or in different combinations.
(5) BDF1 mice were immunized with a protein antigen, such as ovalbumin (OA) or keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), absorbed to aluminum hydroxide gel, and their spleen cells were stimulated by homologous antigen for the formation of glycosylation-enhancing factor (GEF).
(6) A high-performance liquid chromatographic assay for the quantitative determination of azatadine and a base (1 M sodium hydroxide) hydrolyzable conjugate of azatadine in human urine has been developed.
(7) Equivalent neutralising doses of magnesium hydroxide (pH 9-4) did not increase serum gastrin and gastric acid output above basal levels, whereas antral acidification with 20 ml 0-1 N HCl resulted in a slight decrease in serum gastrin.
(8) The monovalent serovar C aluminum-hydroxide-gel vaccine also gave significant protection (94%) against a serovar C challenge.
(9) Phenol sulfotransferase activity is often measured by incubating dopamine with a source of the enzyme and the sulfate donor 35S-3'-phosphoadensine-5'-phosphosulfate and then separating the product, 35S-dopamine sulfate, from the substrates using precipitation with barium hydroxide and zinc sulfate.
(10) 4 The results indicate that co-administration of aluminum hydroxide reduces the bioavailability of oral diflusinal by about 40%.
(11) When examined microscopically with potassium hydroxide, the agents of these disorders resemble those of dermatophytosis, showing narrow, septate, branching hyphae.
(12) The aluminum hydroxide gel precipitated from aluminum chloride can be represented by the formula Al(OH)2.55(Cl)0.45 and probably exists as a polymer of 10 fused six-membered rings.
(13) Methylation of 2-hydroxyestrone was possible after dissolving the compound in methyl iodide-methylene chloride with tetrahexylammonium hydroxide present, before the addition of sodium hydroxide.
(14) The absorption of factor VIII from gel filtration fractions, concentrates and plasma by aluminium hydroxide has been studied.
(15) The non-carcinogens chosen were 4-nitro-o-phenylenediamine, p-phenylenediamine dihydrochloride, 3-nitropropionic acid, dichlorvos, 2-(chloromethyl)pyridine, N-(1-naphthyl)ethylenediamine 2HCl, O-anthranilic acid, 4-nitroanthranilic acid, anilazine and triphenyltin hydroxide.
(16) After 8 weeks of treatment either potassium as hydrochloride 1 g twice daily, or a combination of potassium hydrochloride 1 g and magnesium hydroxide 500 mg twice daily was added to the diuretic therapy in a randomised, double-blind, cross-over design.
(17) The antibody responses of animals immunised with keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) in Freund's Incomplete Adjuvant (FIA), diethylaminoethyl dextran (DEAE-dextran) and aluminium hydroxide (alum) were compared with the response to antigen administered in the absence of adjuvants.
(18) Kinetics for the reactions of various cytosine and uracil nucleosides and their alkyl derivatives with aqueous sodium hydroxide have been studied by liquid chromatography.
(19) This derivative is prepared by a sequential alkylation procedure in which the phenolic hydroxyl group of the parent compound is alkylated off-column with heptyl iodide and the amide group is derivatized on-column by reaction with trimethylanilinium hydroxide.
(20) A rapid, mild, and convenient transesterification of triglycerides was obtained using 0.2 N-methanolic (m-trifluoro-methylphenyl) trimethylammonium hydroxide.