Department of Chemistry, S. B. College, Bagati, Mogra, Hooghly-712 148, West Bengal, India E-mail : aloke.chattopadhyay09@gmail.com Manuscript received 07 July 2011, revised 24 October 2011, accepted 25 October 2011 Guargum-graft-acrylamide has been found to be a flocculent for metallic ions. From guargum-graft-acrylamide three new materials : yttrium ion bound guargum-graft-acrylamide, barium ion bound guargum-graft-acrylamide and cupric ion bound guargum-graft-acrylamide have been

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... To understand nature of ion binding, pH titration, conductometric titration, transmission electron microscopic (TEM) study and transmission electron diffraction (TED) study have been carried out. TEM images and TED patterns indicate macrostructures for these materials may not be same.