Sentences with phrase «absorbing carbon material»

The British company manufactured a radiation - absorbing carbon material that could hide battleships from radar detection but didn't know the physics of how it worked.

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Unlike most carbon - intensive building materials used today, industrial hemp absorbs carbon dioxide as it grows.

«Carbon - capture breakthrough: Recyclable material absorbs 82 percent of its weight in carbon dioxide.»

Materials with a surface area above 2,800 square meters per gram excelled at absorbing carbon dioxide at pressures of 30 bar, but the advantages of such high surface area diminished at lower pressures.

Rice University materials scientists have created a light foam from two - dimensional sheets of hexagonal - boron nitride (h - BN) that absorbs carbon dioxide.

Its two faces differ strikingly in color, likely the result of thermal segregation: Over time, darker materials (like carbon) have absorbed more heat from the sun, warming up and sending lighter, more volatile materials (like ice) to the colder hemisphere.

This material, in which carbon substitutes for some of the lattice oxygen atoms, absorbs light at wavelengths below 535 nanometers and has a lower band - gap energy than rutile (2.32 versus 3.00 electron volts).

Pendry discovered that the electrical properties allowing the material to absorb radiation came not from the carbon per se but from the shape of its long, thin fibers.

Laboratory hazards and how they should be handled are listed in the regulations such as carcinogenic and teratogenic substances, mercury and its compounds, cytotoxic chemicals, carbon monoxide, lead and its derivatives, and materials that can be absorbed through the skin.

Sandwiched inside is a two - part material: nano - PE that is coated on one side with IR - absorbing (and emitting) black carbon, and on the other side an ultrathin layer of copper that only weakly absorbs and emits IR.

GRAB IT WITH ARTIFICIAL TREES To corral widely dispersed CO2 emissions from cars, «artificial trees» — towers filled with carbon - absorbing materials — could line roadways, pulling the gas from the air and compressing it into a storable form.

However, the ocean's ability to absorb anthropogenic carbon or to provide sufficient food for humankind depends on these oceanic material cycles.

There is simply not enough carbon to absorb the accumulation of manure, and the material will never begin to decay effectively.

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«For example, the natural decay of organic material in forests and grasslands and the action of forest fires results in the release of about 439 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide every year, while new growth entirely counteracts this effect, absorbing 450 gigatonnes per year.»

I do go on about how I think that wood is the most sustainable building material; instead of creating carbon dioxide, it absorbs it and stores it.

Wood is perhaps the greenest building material; it is a renewable resource that absorbs carbon dioxide as it grows, which is sequestered in the wood when it is cut into building materials.

Most ponds and lakes generally release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through the decomposition of organic material than they absorb through photosynthesis.

However, inefficient combustion of wood, coal and diesel tends to produce dark carbonaceous material (black carbon, or soot) that also absorbs radiation and warms the atmosphere.

A third effect occurs when black carbon (BC) particles land on snow, and the tiny specks of dark material in the upper snow layers absorb heat from the sun and promote melting.

This leaves only a few dollars margin to absorb other factors such as potential carbon offset costs, likely inflation in labour, materials and energy costs.

Additionally, plants grown in this material absorb carbon from the atmosphere, making Florafelt a «carbon absorbing» product.

Can we design building materials that, like shells, absorb CO2 from their surroundings and when saturated, simply continue to act as building materials, holding on to the carbon long term?