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Punica granatum L. study is interesting for the functional properties associated to its Phenolic compounds and high volumes of production of this fruit in Jordan. The pomegranate type "pale arils" from Abu Ziyad valley were evaluated during different stages between 20 to 140 days after full bloom, with techniques of chelation, colorimetry and spectrophotometry. The results show that the increasing of sphericity (0.79 to 0.91), size diameter (65.58 to 90.41 mm), juice yield (46.03 to 55.67%), arils mass (31.70 to 61.23%), TSS total soluble solids (11.01 to 16.80), pH (2.7 to 3.6) and anthocyanins (7.43 to 12.41 Cyannidine 3 glucoside/100 g) were associated with the decreasing of thickness of the rind (4.9 to 2.77 mm), TTA Titrable total acidity (3.5 to 1.1%), TPC Total phenolics (389.61 to 251.52 mg Gallic acid/100 g), flavonoids (0.73 to 0.40 mg Catechine/g), tannins (8940.11 to 3324.79 ppm), AA Antioxidant Activity (63.41 to 48.84%) and Ascorbic acid content (28.91 to 9.48 mg/100 g); presenting significant differences p≥0,5. The paleness of rind and arils is positively related to the anthocyanin content expressed by "a" and "C" color coordinates. The actual investigation demonstrates that high values TSS-pH, low content of tannins and TTA could be successfully indicators of maturity stages rather than the concentration of anthocyanins.

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The black sands found on certain Ecuadorian beaches present a high ilmenite contents up to 50%. In this work, TiO 2 was obtained from the black sands of Muisne beaches -Ecuador by combining the thermal, chemical and ion exchange treatments. For the thermal treatment, the raw material was smelted at temperature of 1100 °C using a basic flux. Subsequently, the chemical treatment was initiated in the presence of Fe 0 metal using chemical digestion with HCl, and the sample was purified by separating the precipitates from a series of reactions developed at different pHs with NH 4 OH, Na 2 S and HCl. The final effluent resulting from the last HCl digestion was purified by ion exchange using Amberlite IRA 400 resin of strongly anionic character. The effluent is then treated in basic medium and the resulting precipitate is calcined. The recovery yield of the TiO 2 pigment was 46% with 92% purity.