Sentences with phrase «instruments traced the chemical»

Not exact matches

Using data captured by ALMA in Chile and from the ROSINA instrument on ESA's Rosetta mission, a team of astronomers has found faint traces of the chemical compound [Freon - 40]--(CH3Cl), also known as methyl chloride and chloromethane, around both the infant star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar System.

NIST chemist Tom Bruno, who invented a method for recovering trace chemicals such as environmental pollutants and forensic evidence, uses a portable version of the instrument to sample vapor inside an old paint can.

The new portable kit collects trace chemicals while analysis is performed with other instruments such as gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, which can also be made portable.

Increased sensitivity of instruments will cause us to find traces of more and more chemicals in coming years, but that our country's overmedication becomes detectable in our water sources does not mean that the best risk management strategy is to reduce them.

This instrument can identify the chemical composition of materials, so traces of chemicals that only come from fossil fuel combustion would leave a kind of fingerprint.