«If you talk to the people who work at these plants, they would rather be dealing with bacteria than with corrosive chemicals,» says Marc Deshusses, a co-author on the paper, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (sciencemag.org)
Using corrosive chemicals to wash the reflective tape, causing it to fade, wear and lost is reflectivity. (langdonemison.com)
A new study by an international team of oceanographers — including Victoria Fabry of California State University San Marcos — that will be published in Nature magazine on September 29, 2005, reports that ocean acidification could result in corrosive chemical conditions that would be reached much sooner than previously thought. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)