Sentences with phrase «analyzes chemical composition»

Prather had spent 15 years developing a device that could suck in microscopic particles from the air and analyze their chemical composition in a few thousandths of a second.

HERA will not be able to directly analyze the chemical composition of those early objects (such work is done with a technique called spectroscopy), but Hewitt said it will be possible to learn something about the characteristics of those early objects by studying their interaction with the hydrogen that surrounded them.

Haggerty and his colleagues analyzed the chemical composition of the diamonds by bouncing infrared light off polished slivers.

In order to understand how a protein works one may analyze its chemical composition or observe its shape.

In the study, published online June 3, 2014 in the journal Nutrition, Keck School of Medicine researchers analyzed the chemical composition of 34 popular beverages, finding that beverages and juices made with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), such as Coca - Cola, Pepsi, Dr Pepper, Mountain Dew and Sprite, all contain 50 percent more fructose than glucose, a blend that calls into question claims that sugar and HFCS are essentially the same.

Reheis has studied the dust covering much of the western United States, analyzing its chemical composition to determine where it came from.

The spectrometer analyzed the chemical composition of the water samples and the researchers compared the resulting data with a large list of 1,100 «suspect chemicals» by employing a nimble data - mining algorithm.

Both events were accompanied by warming episodes the U-M-led team found by analyzing the chemical composition of fossil shells using a recently developed technique called the carbonate clumped isotope paleothermometer.

In an effort to solve these problems, analytical chemist Christopher Worley and his colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico adapted an existing X-ray technique to capture fingerprints and analyze their chemical composition.

Dorothy Hosler of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analyzed the chemical composition, design and metallurgical properties of metal artifacts from all three of the sites.

In particular, sensors that could analyze the chemical composition of the plumes, either remotely or by sampling the material as it whizzed through the vapor, could provide keen insights into the chemical processes taking place on or deep beneath Europa's icy surface.

By analyzing the chemical composition of the water in which the animals lived during the duration of the experiment, the researchers determined that exposure to space induces distinct differences in metabolism and / or secretion.

Telescopes and other instruments extending from the gondolas monitored cosmic rays and analyzed the chemical composition of Venus's atmosphere.

They then analyzed the chemical compositions and CCN activities of the aerosol samples.

So they analyzed the chemical composition of the odor mixture wafting from the forearms of 16 people of various ethnic backgrounds; they did the same for samples from pigeons and chickens, two species that Culex mosquitoes like.

And when the astronomers analyzed its chemical composition, the match was uncanny.

Mundorff and Corcoran snipped leaves and tucked them into envelopes so they could analyze their chemical composition.

Analyzing the chemical composition of those shells «acts like a fingerprinting» for the water's temperature, Hillenbrand said, enabling researchers to trace the intervals when relatively warm water welled up onto the continental shelf.

They then send sap samples to Ahmed's collaborative Food and Health Lab at MSU to analyze the chemical composition that determine maple sap quality along with sugar content.

This year's winners include a fast way to analyze the chemical composition of cells, a suite of genetic tools to improve crops, and a method to screen images of 3 - D cell cultures for cancer cells.

This instrument could analyze the chemical composition of materials.

At present, co-author and oceanography associate professor Evan Solomon is analyzing the chemical composition of bubble plume samples emitted at about 500 meters deep off the Washington coast, seeing whether the gas comes from methane hydrates instead of other sources.

• Analyzed the chemical composition, structure and properties of substances.

Not exact matches

IceBridge's flight lines often intersect ice core sites where other scientists have analyzed the ice's chemical composition to map and date layers in the ice.

They then performed chemical extraction on the samples to analyze the sulfur isotope compositions in order to estimate the chemistry of the global ocean.

But moon rocks — some of them analyzed with ever more powerful spectroscopy to reveal chemical composition here on Earth and some by robotic craft on the lunar surface itself — are still full of surprises.

«We're busy working on analyzing the infrared data from this special view of the Saturn system,» said Phil Nicholson, a visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team member from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. «The infrared data should tell us more about the sizes of the particles which make up the D, E, F and G rings, and how these sizes vary with location in the rings, as well as providing clues as to their chemical composition.»

Grundy et al. analyzed the colors and chemical compositions of their surfaces, with ices of H2O, CH4, CO, N2, and NH3 and a reddish material which may be tholins.

Overall, the chemical composition of NWA 7034 is strikingly similar to rocks recently analyzed by Mars rovers, and it closely matches the average composition of the Red Planet's crust as estimated by orbiting probes.

Chemical signatures of the ocean water the organisms lived in are locked into the composition of their shells, and researchers can analyze them for evidence of past water temperatures and other oceanographic conditions.

Curiosity's ChemCam will fire a laser at rocks up to 30 feet away and analyze the color of the vaporizing mass to determine its chemical composition.

Every day, Stefan Norra and his team took samples of particles in the air and analyzed their mass and chemical composition.

Andrew Steele, an astrobiologist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and his colleagues analyzed an Apollo 17 sample with a technique called Raman spectroscopy, which gives a detailed chemical composition of the material under study.

The chemical composition of WD 1425 +540's atmosphere was analyzed using an instrument called a spectrometer, which breaks light into wavelengths.

A spectrograph spreads out the light gathered by a telescope so that it can be analyzed to determine such properties of celestial objects as chemical composition and abundances, temperature, radial velocity, rotational velocity, and magnetic fields.

As a spectrograph, HRS also separated incoming light into its spectral components so that the composition, temperature, motion, and other chemical and physical properties of the objects could be analyzed.

Deep Impact was re-routed after its 2005 visit and launch of an impactor into the surface of Comet Temple 1 (another short - period comet with a 5.5 - year orbit), which created a plume of ice and dust that was analyzed for its chemical composition.

It enables researchers to analyze a material at various places, and to determine its chemical compositions and mechanical properties at each of these places, at the nanoscale.

Whenever possible, bladder stones (either those that are removed surgically or those small ones that have been passed in the urine), they should be analyzed for their chemical composition.

If bladder stones are removed surgically or if small ones pass in the urine, they should be analyzed for their chemical composition.

The hanging light piece represents precisely the chemical composition of moon dust, that was analyzed on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.

SPENCER FINCH Moon Dust (Apollo 17) 2009 150 light fixtures and 417 incandescent bulbs Dimensions variable The hanging light piece represents precisely the chemical composition of moon dust, that was analyzed on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.

Epic Pharma, LLC, Laurelton • NY 2008 — 2010 Chemist Analyzed products with organic and inorganic compounds to determine chemical and physical properties, composition, structure, relationships, and reactions utilizing chromatography HPLC, spectroscopy, and spectrophotometer techniques.