Sentences with phrase «as chemists like»

The trick is to get the iron to chemically bond to the soap — or as chemists like to say, the «surfactant» — and in sufficient quantity to enable the ironic solution to be pulled by a magnet.

Not exact matches

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

Well, given that many atheists are actually more informed (as studies have confirmed) than believers, a better analogy would be that it's like asking a former professional chemist now teaching an English class about chemistry instead of asking the Chemistry teacher who never made it past chem 101 as an undergrad.

Sure, VX or Sarin are buggers to synthesize, especially if you want them as a binary, but something like mustard or dimethyl mercury is not seriously going to challenge any decent industrial chemist, or even just industrial Chlorine (Pool supply company, industrial gasses supply house), not effective against a soldier in CW gear, but against civilians?

Chemist David Lynn of Emory University in Atlanta points out that misfolded proteins — like the those implicated in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's — show some similarities to life, namely that they can generate diversity in the different ways that they fold, and can undergo chemical evolution, in which those folded proteins are selected not genetically, but chemically.

Thatcher could support the reforms, Agar argues, because she «had lived the life of the working research scientist, as a final - year chemistry student in Dorothy Hodgkin's x-ray crystallography laboratory, as an investigator of glues for BX [plastics company] and as a food chemist for Lyons & Co.... [I] t was precisely because Thatcher knew what scientific research was like that made her impervious to claims that science was a special case, with special features and incapable of being understood by outsiders, and therefore that science policy should be left in the hands of scientists.

In it they establish 12 guiding principles for chemists, concepts like preventing waste by incorporating as much of the materials used into the final product, and choosing the least complicated reaction.

Now, as chemists report online today in Nature, buckyballs — complex molecules with 60 carbon atoms arranged into what look like the geodesic domes of R. Buckminster Fuller — do indeed exist in the space between the stars.

Gasoline - like fuels can be made from cellulosic materials such as farm and forestry waste using a new process invented by chemists at the University of California, Davis.

Medicinal chemists often find their way into pharmaceutical companies, but Buolamwini likes the freedom of academia, and the ability to contribute innovative ideas as well as the chance to train young scientists.

And in a series of profiles of «21st Century Chemists,» we're focusing on younger, mid-career chemists, several of whom are women, who are working on especially «cool» and significant research — like the Purdue University chemist studying the glue mussels secrete underwater, so he can synthesize a wet - setting adhesive that could be used as a surgical glue or new boneChemists,» we're focusing on younger, mid-career chemists, several of whom are women, who are working on especially «cool» and significant research — like the Purdue University chemist studying the glue mussels secrete underwater, so he can synthesize a wet - setting adhesive that could be used as a surgical glue or new bonechemists, several of whom are women, who are working on especially «cool» and significant research — like the Purdue University chemist studying the glue mussels secrete underwater, so he can synthesize a wet - setting adhesive that could be used as a surgical glue or new bone cement.

As a chemist looking at those compositions, it seems like the carb cleaner would be less likely to have a residue as it has no naphtha in it (which can include some bits that might not evaporate as quicklyAs a chemist looking at those compositions, it seems like the carb cleaner would be less likely to have a residue as it has no naphtha in it (which can include some bits that might not evaporate as quicklyas it has no naphtha in it (which can include some bits that might not evaporate as quicklyas quickly).

I'd like to think he's read our stories on such climate engineering options, including one last year in our Energy Challenge series by Bill Broad (with some help from me) in which the president of the National Academy of Sciences, the atmospheric chemist Ralph Cicerone, endorsed the need to aggressively study such options, even as the world works to limit emissions.

As a retired analytical chemist and webmaster of http://www.ilovemycarbondioxide.com I would like to submit the following comments, which I hope will be taken into account and receive serious consideration.

As a chemist, I am bothered by the use of phrases like «the oceans are becoming more acidic».

Environmental attorneys interview expert witnesses like environmental engineers, biologists, chemists and environmental scientists as they prepare and litigate their cases.