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@steepup Apr 1, 2021, 2:54 PM UTC

Plant secondary metabolites ;Phytochemicals pt V(Lignans)

Several weeks ago, I started writing on phytochemicals. As it was stated then and paraphrasing it again now, phytochemicals are chemicals produced by plant metabolism and provide a defence mechanism…

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@steepup Oct 16, 2020, 1:43 AM UTC

Plant secondary metabolites ;Phytochemicals pt IV(Tannins)

In the last post on plant secondary metabolite, I discussed extensively on Flavonoids. Flavonoids are groups of polyphenols that impart colour in plants, through the colour, they provide an attractio…

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@steepup Oct 8, 2020, 3:30 AM UTC

Plant secondary metabolites ;Phytochemicals pt III

In the last two posts, I did an introduction on phytochemicals. The links to them are found here and here. In this part, I will focus on Flavonoids which is another example of polyphenol. They are a…

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@steepup Sep 27, 2020, 2:17 AM UTC

Plant secondary metabolites ;Phytochemicals pt II

An introduction to what phytochemicals are was made in the first part of this write up. They are simply plant secondary metabolites that are produced by plants to help them fight against pathogens or…

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@steepup Sep 11, 2020, 10:14 PM UTC

Plant secondary metabolites ;Phytochemicals pt 1

Many folks from Africa, Latin America, and Asia practises what is generally known as traditional medicines, whereby they depend on the medicinal properties of plants within their reach to cure one ai…

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@steepup Jul 17, 2020, 5:59 AM UTC

Catalyst specificity; the force converting climate killer to useful product (pt 2)

In the previous post on Catalyst specificity; the force converting climate killer to useful product , I introduced how industrial activities releases CO2 a green house gas of interest into the atmosp…

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@steepup Jun 24, 2020, 3:37 AM UTC

Catalyst specificity; the force converting climate killer to useful product (pt 1)

## Catalyst and Chemical Industries In chemical industries where there are lot of conversion processes which include conversion of chemicals that are less useful to a more valuable ones, catalyst ser…

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@steepup May 26, 2020, 4:45 AM UTC

Asian giant hornet, the monster visitor on America soil

Invasive species have been know to be organisms that do not naturally live in a given region or habitat but find their way into such a new habitat. They come into their host community with a deleteri…

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@steepup May 13, 2020, 4:26 AM UTC

(Stemng contest)Fueling wearable sensor with lactate; a self-powered e-skin

The general understanding of a common man about his skin is that he uses the skin to feel his external environment or commonly as one of the sense organs helping him to feel pain, pressure, pleasure,…

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@steepup Apr 7, 2020, 12:57 AM UTC

Initial post on hive blockchain

Hello everyone here, this is my post here on hive. On steemit, i am known as @steepup. I write science post and once in a while, i write poetry. Am a Nigerian, and works in a university. Married with…

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