Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Electrochemical Sensors Based on Carbonaceous Materials Modified with Silver Nanoparticles and Silver Sulfide Nanoparticles for the Detection of Low Concentrations of Free Cyanide
(Andy A. Cardenas-Riojas, Ademar Wong, Golfer Muedas-Taipe, Adolfo La Rosa-Toro, Maria D.P.T. Sotomayor, Miguel Ponce-Vargas and Angélica M. Baena-Moncada, Laboratorio de Investigación de Electroquímica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Av. Túpac Amaru 210, Rímac, Lima, Perú, et al.)
Chapter 2. A New Set of Thermochemically Stable Nitrile and Isonitrile Insertion Compounds with Their Possible Trapping at Ambient Temperature
(Gourhari Jana, Ranita Pal and Pratim Kumar Chattaraj – Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, et al.)
Chapter 3. Cyanide: Toxicity in the Environment
(Duraisamy Udhayakumari – Department of Chemistry, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India)
Chapter 4. Cyanide Occurrence and Treatment in the Gold Mining Industry
(Caroline Dale and Henri Jogand – Biotechnologies Expert, BS&P – Scientific & Technological Expertise Department, Veolia)
Chapter 5. Impact of Substrates on the Heat Capacity of Lyophilised Biomass of Fusarium Oxysporum Associated with Cyanidation Wastewater
(Enoch A. Akinpelu, Seteno K. O. Ntwampe, and Felix Nchu – Bioresource Engineering Research Group, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa, et al.)
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