COMPARISON OF FLUORIDE UPTAKE BETWEEN MORINGA OLEIFERA AND TAMARINDUS INDICA
Main Article Content
Abstract
Fluoride is one of the important minerals which is required by our body in order to maintain healthy bones and tooth but when provided in high amount it has many unfavourable effects such as dental fluorosis, osteoporosis or crippling skeletal fluorosis, bone deformities etc. One of the major sources of high fluoride intake is from fluoride contaminated water, so the removal of fluoride from the contaminated water is necessary in order to prevent the endemic of fluorosis. Several materials are tested for the fluoride uptake such as Moringa oleifera and Tamarindus indica, it was observed that Moringa oleifera have up to 93% of the uptake capacity at optimum pH and coagulant dose and Tamarindus indica dried seeds had up to 92.1% uptake at neutral pH but only when the particle size of coagulant Strictly at 75 micron and when the particle size is increased the uptake efficiency was decreased drastically, thus we can say fluoride uptake by Moringa oleifera gave better results as it does not require a particular particle size and also it have more fluoride uptake efficiency.
Downloads
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED).
You are free to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
- The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Under the following terms:
- Attribution — You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes .
- NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
- No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Notices:
You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation .
No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.
Rights of Authors
Authors retain the following rights:
1. Copyright and other proprietary rights relating to the article, such as patent rights,
2. the right to use the substance of the article in future works, including lectures and books,
3. the right to reproduce the article for own purposes, provided the copies are not offered for sale,
4. the right to self-archive the article.