Copper proteins and copper enzymes
Abstract: A comprehensive reference text explores the nature of chelating agents and the underlying reasons for their metal-binding properties and discusses the mechanisms of absorption for various metals and the possible role of chelating agents in influencing the utilization o…
"The Old Kingdom of Egypt (Dynasties 4-6, c. 2600-2180 BC) is famous as a period of the builders of the largest Egyptian pyramids. It is generally accepted that the evidence on the use of copper alloy tools from this era is meagre. Martin Odler gathers the textual, iconographic …
Covering the time span from the Paleolithic period to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C., the eminent Egyptologist Donald Redford explores three thousand years of uninterrupted contact between Egypt and Western Asia across the Sinai land-bridge. In the vivid and lucid styl…
This multi-author new edition revises and updates the classic reference by William G.I. Davenport ... et al. (winner of, among other awards, the 2003 AIME Mineral Industry Educator of the Year Award "for inspiring students in the pursuit of clarity"), providing fully updated cov…
The simple, empirical, surprisingly accurate and venerable Arrhenius equation, based upon the work of Van't Hoff, is very useful for summarising large bodies of experimentally determined diffusion data for a given host/diffusant system. It is the first port of call for any resea…
Monograph on the crisis of mineral resources - analyses the historical context and current trends, examines the supply and demand domination through multinational enterprises, government policies and employment issues, includes case studies concerning petroleum resources, nickel…
This book provides an up-to-date review of research on sugarbeet nutrition, including topics not covered in a similar work published in the early 1970s, such as soil and plant analyses, organic farming, sustainability, satellite mapping and remote sensing. Chapter 1 provides an …
"Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Exp…
Abstract: A 2-volume reference set for nutriton researchers, biochemists, toxicologists, and trace element bioscientists presents 12 authoritative reviews prepared by experts in their respective areas of investigation concerning the metabolism of copper (C u) and its deficiency …
Plant nutrients. The soil as a plant nutrient medium. Nutrient uptake and assimilation. Plant water relationships. Nutrition and plant Growth. Ferilizer aplication. Nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, zinc, copper, molybdenum, boron. Fu…