A comparative study on physicochemical properties of hydroxyapatite powder prepared from bovine and dromedary bone

The recovery of agro-food waste was one of the challenges during the last decades. In this context, the aims of the current study are the evaluation and the comparison between two resources of bone that are dromedary and bovine bones. A biomaterial was prepared from the two bone's resources by heat treatment at different temperatures and characterized by physicochemical techniques to determine the effect of bone's type in physicochemical properties of hydroxyapatite. The obtained results of FTIR and XRD showed the removal of all organic matter and the production of pure hydroxyapatite without any additional phase for both types of bone. The laser particle size analyzer indicated that hydroxyapatite's particle size increases when the temperature is increased. The XRF tests results revealed that the bone type significantly affects the concentration of hydroxyapatite compounds.