desulphuration

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desulphuration

(diːˌsʌlfəˈreɪʃən) or

desulfuration

n
(Chemistry) the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
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Generally, the adsorption by activated carbon (AC) is a feasible strategy for desulfuration [4-6].
Cysteine desulfurase (CDS; EC 2.8.1.7) is an important enzyme for the assimilatory sulfur metabolism, where it performs the following desulfuration reaction [3, 6, 7] (Scheme 1):
Furthermore, the fluorescence of BGO in presence of [Hg.sup.2+] would be reversed by addition of KI, which means that no desulfuration occurred (Figure S3).
Manganese is widely used in steel production for desulfuration and deoxidization.
(1954) Enzymatic desulfuration of [beta]-mercaptopyruvate to pyruvate.
However, oxonation using bromine is limited to OP compounds that require oxidative desulfuration for activiation.
The toxic effects of malathion are related to its CYP-mediated oxidative desulfuration to bioactive malaoxon leading to accretion of acetylcholine in neuroeffector junctions.
Chlorpyrifos is firstly activated to its active metabolite Chlorpyrifos--oxon by oxidative desulfuration which in turn is responsible for mammalian toxicity through inhibition of cholinesterase (Timchalk et al., 2002; Betancourt and Carr, 2004; Tongbai and Damrongphol, 2011)(10,11,12).
Morrison and Porter (11) confirmed that the observed reduction in vulcani-zate properties is caused by two reactions proceeding in parallel, i.e., desulfuration and decomposition, see Table 1.
(1985): Microbial desulfuration of fossil fuels: Annals y Reviews of Microbiology.
Molybdenum disulfide nanoparticles with an average diameter of 80-100 nm were obtained by the desulfuration of molybdenum trisulfide in hydrogen atmosphere at 780 [degrees] C for 1 h.