Sentences with phrase «amount of plant material»

While it's normal for cats to eat a bit of grass, eating a large amount of plant material could mean something is missing from your cat's diet.

Wild dogs (wolves) are not strictly carnivores in the way that cats are — they consume a limited amount of plant material in the stomach contents of their prey and they will sometimes eat plants in the wild if meat is not available.

These plants can cause everything from vomiting and diarrhea to seizures and even death based on the amount of plant material ingested or chewed on by your pets.

Many pets who ingest a small amount of plant material can be monitored at home; pets who ingest larger amounts of plant material and are at risk of hypocalcemia may need emesis induced and / or monitoring at the hospital.

Since a tremendous amount of plant material is needed to extract the oils, their long - term and widespread use could potentially create a negative, world - wide environmental effect.

Essential oils can be quite expensive, but a high quality essential oil takes a large amount of plant material to produce and is highly concentrated.

As bears, their digestive systems are designed to break down meat and small amounts of plant material, yet in the wild and in captivity these bears are exclusively herbivorous.

Now, new techniques for analyzing residues in excavated jars and identifying tiny amounts of plant material suggest that ancient Near Easterners indulged in a range of psychoactive substances.

On rare occasions, the dog may swallow more considerable amounts of plant material.

One of the problems is that bioethanol production relies on the cultivation of large amounts of plant material often on land that was formally tropical rain forest, or on land that would otherwise have been used to produce food.

Not exact matches

Each gardener will have to make the decision based on available materials, the amount of work involved in covering the plants, and the projected low temperature.

And advances in materials technology, such as hybrid ceramic / steel, can help boost the temperature — and therefore increase the efficiency and lower the amount of CO2 emissions — of new coal - fired power plants.

«We have to take care, because there are huge amounts of materials around the Fukushima nuclear plant,» he says, concerned that radioactive materials in the debris could be released into the atmosphere all over again if ignited.

For a typical paper - recycling factory, one Emefcy fuel cell module, which is about the size of a cubic meter, could treat about three cubic meters per day of wastewater depending on the amount of organic material present, according to Cohen, and the modules can be scaled to meet the needs of larger or smaller plants.

The Swiss Foundation for Mine Action in Geneva used drone - created maps to estimate the amount of toxic material released from ore - processing plants in Kyrgyzstan, for example.

That leads to more microbial biomass being produced compared to the amount of dead plant material — which contributes to the build - up of organic material in the soil.»

Herbivores such as cows and sheep excrete large amounts of 5β - stigmastanol, which is derived from plant material, whereas omnivores such as humans and pigs deposit more coprostanol, which is made from cholesterol.

Being a silica rich material is important for reducing the amount of arsenic in the rice plant because the mechanism for uptake of arsenite, which is the most dominant form of arsenic in flooded rice paddies, shares a transport pathway with dissolved silicon.

Higher temperatures thaw the permafrost, releasing unknown amounts of methane as generations of frozen plants and organic materials begin to decompose.

And compared to the byproducts of nuclear plants, which remain radioactive for thousands of years, the small amount of radioactive material produced in fusion reactions would remain radioactive for tens of years, Synakowski said.

For example, plans are now in the works to plant some native shrubs on the bare hillsides above Devils Hole in hopes of increasing the amount of organic material that finds it way into the water.

In echinacea supplements the active ingredients in recommended amounts depend upon the quality of plant material, preparation procedures, formulations and storage conditions.

In fact, did you know that one of the main reasons that the traditional Inuit populations in the Arctic were able to maintain good health while eating very little plant material is that they were smart enough to get a large amount of their nutrition needs from organ meats.

Cool burning reduces the amount of damage done by hot fires to ecosystems by promoting new plant growth and clearing natural waste materials.

We are proud to be building the first homes in Hawaii made of «hemp - crete», an age - old, building / manufacturing material that is derived from a distant cousin of the «cannabis sativa» plant species we all know as marijuana, though with only a negligible amount of tetrahydrocannabinol - the psychoactive chemical credited for the marijuana high.

Terrestrial ecosystems, such as the Arctic tundra and Amazon rainforest, contain a huge amount of carbon in organic matter such as decaying plant material.

A single turbine requires 700-1000 tons of concrete, steel, copper and fiberglass — far more raw materials than involved with coal or gas - fired power plants, generating equal amounts of electricity far more reliably and cheaply.

But Mermin makes a strong case that the sheer amount of raw plant material going into spirits production, combined with its relatively unregulated nature, make it an ideal point of focus for people concerned about pesticide residues or other impurities.

This dependence on vast amounts of coal - fired power, on top of adding to our climate woes and air pollution issues, also has an impact on the communities surrounding coal plants, thanks to the insidious effects of coal ash (the leftover material from burning coal as a fuel) in disposal ponds, which often leak slowly into groundwater or which can «spill» into nearby rivers or lakes, polluting a natural resource that we all rely on.

-- year - round growing seasons and the planting staggered so there is always just the right amount of material being harvested to keep the processing unit working?

The plant is expected to boost the bottom line of materials supplier GT Advanced and will supply Apple with an unknown amount of sapphire for use in its upcoming devices.