EVALUATION OF TIRE RUBBER DISPOSAL IN CONCRETE FOR PAVEMENTS

EVALUATION OF TIRE RUBBER DISPOSAL IN CONCRETE FOR PAVEMENTS

The production of waste by the tire industry has been a growing problem, indicating the need for its reuse.More than thirty million tires are discharged per year in Brazil, where regulation for the environment states that for each four new tires, five unusable ones must be adequately disposed by manufacturers and importers.Paving consumes an extrem

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Ascorbic Acid Contents in Chili Peppers (Capsicum L.)

The genus Capsicum commonly known as chili pepper is a major spice crop and is almost cosmopolitan in distribution.The nutritive value of chili pepper is largely determined by ascorbic acid content.The fruits at five ripening stages viz., (M1, M2, M3, sophie allport bee curtains M4 and M5) from seventeen cultivars of Capsicum annuum L and one culti

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Safety Assessment of Recycled Plastics from Post-Consumer Waste with a Combination of a Miniaturized Ames Test and Chromatographic Analysis

European circular economy goals require the use of recycled polymers in sensitive applications such as food packaging.As plastic recyclates can contain unknown post-consumer substances, the European Food Safety Authority evaluates recycling processes using a worst-case assumption: all contaminants are DNA-reactive mutagens/carcinogens with extremel

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The acropetal effects of indole-3-acetic acid in isolated shoot segments of Acer pseudoplatanus L. I. Growth responses of buds

The subject of this investigation were growth reactions of two opposite lateral buds of Acer pseudoplatanus L.stem sections in response to application of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) and other synthetic growth regulators below the buds.No effect of IAA upon the initiation of bud growth was noted, however, elongation of new shoots was inhibited.This a

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