Sentences with phrase «as chemists say»

The problem was that the acid gave away its proton to (or, as chemists say, «protonated») any solvent they made it in.

Not exact matches

I have to say, as a lowly B.S. Chemist, that science has not explained gravity.

The couple eloped in 1949, moving to the Chicago area as Bruce began a career as a chemist, family members said.

The technique holds potential as a drug delivery system, but it might be too hard to make vesicles quickly enough for commercial use, says Guojun Liu, a chemist at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.

The work «has captured the attention of the entire pharmaceutical industry as an exciting new approach for the production of new antimicrobial agents from engineered organisms,» says University of California, Berkeley, chemist Peter Schultz.

Also look at the institution's broader scientific environment, because «you can benefit from help even from people that are not with the label «biomaterials,»» says Dupont - Gillain, who, as a bioengineer and physical chemist, collaborates with colleagues in surface science and cell biologists to develop biomimetic surfaces that can trigger desired cell behaviors.

Steps taken to clean up car exhaust over the past few decades have had a huge effect, and as a result, «the sources of air pollution are now becoming more diverse in cities,» said McDonald, a chemist at Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences in Boulder, Colo..

Dr Laura Pallas, Rice Chemist at the NSW DPI, says changing global rice processing and eating habits is an enormous task, as there are deeply entrenched expectations across various cultures around consistency and flavour, and different approaches to parboiling ranging from those in small home farms to large industrial plants.

Part of the challenge with many these volatile - emitting products is that they're specifically designed to evaporate as part of their job, says study coauthor Jessica Gilman, an atmospheric chemist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder.

«This is one way to focus our talents as synthetic chemists in a direction that can immediately help patients,» said Seth Herzon, a chemistry professor at Yale and member of the Yale Cancer Center.

In fact, says Balbes, chemists have always found jobs in sales, marketing, and beyond, but they've tended to treat it as a «dirty little secret,» as if they have ceased to be chemists.

«A good analytical chemist would be able to say «yes, this is a slight variation» as opposed to a button pusher who would simply say «it doesn't match anything in my library».»

SolarWorld employs around 100 chemists, physicists and engineers in its R&D centre in Freiberg, says Nitzschke, and similar - sized companies offer internships for those with backgrounds in these sciences, as well as computer science and economics.

Necessary job skills such as team building and teamwork are only learned as a happenstance to on - the - job training,» says John Fetzer, author of the book Career Management for Chemists: A Guide to Success in a Chemistry Career (Springer, ISBN: 3 -540-20899-2).

«It's a terrific paper,» says Rice University chemist Dan Colbert, who sees the study as an important advance toward creating nanoscale molecular structures.

«Milk is powerful as a preventer of disease and an enhancer of performance,» says Bruce German, a food chemist at U.C. Davis.

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.

Maze navigation can fall into a class of problems known as NP - complete, «which computers have a surprisingly hard time solving, as the effort to solve them goes up exponentially with the scale of the problem,» says chemist Irv Epstein of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

«What strikes me as innovative here is that you can make the foam almost instantaneously,» says Edith Mathiowitz, a chemist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who studies such foams for delivering drug or gene therapy.

«As far as we know, this is the first study that's looked at the environmental impact of these materials,» says Hamers, who collaborated with the laboratories of University of Minnesota chemist Christy Haynes and UW - Madison soil scientist Joel Pedersen to perform the new worAs far as we know, this is the first study that's looked at the environmental impact of these materials,» says Hamers, who collaborated with the laboratories of University of Minnesota chemist Christy Haynes and UW - Madison soil scientist Joel Pedersen to perform the new woras we know, this is the first study that's looked at the environmental impact of these materials,» says Hamers, who collaborated with the laboratories of University of Minnesota chemist Christy Haynes and UW - Madison soil scientist Joel Pedersen to perform the new work.

«Typically, the synthesis of oxide nanoparticles involves the slow reaction of a weak oxidizing agent, such as hydrogen peroxide, with dilute solutions of metal salts or complexes in both aqueous and non-aqueous solvent systems,» said Dr. Thomas Sutto, NRL research chemist.

«The National Academy of Sciences recently convened a meeting to look at science missions in CubeSats,» said Bryce Tappan, an explosives chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead researcher on the CubeSat Propulsion Concept team, «and identified propulsion as one of the primary categories of technology that needs to be developed.»

«They are, in a sense, pushing the power of single molecules as nanoscale light sources to the limit,» says W. E. Moerner, a physical chemist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

«From our perspective as chemists, we were almost disappointed that a molecule which conveys something important as sex has such a simple structure,» says Aleš Svatoš, who performed the chemical analyses to identify the pheromone.

«All of the syngas goes into heat or energy production,» Synfuels chemist Ed Peterson says, and the company cuts down on cost by using such by - products to make energy and employing components built with cheaper steel alloyed with carbon as well as easy to maintain low pressures.

«People think of a shuttle launch as a short - term, finite event, but each launch expels a huge amount of debris into the atmosphere with the potential for long - term effects on the surrounding ecosystem,» said John Bowden, an environmental chemist at Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, S.C.

As a manager, Fuchs is «very polite and a likable person,» says Martin Schoen, a theoretical chemist at the Technical University in Berlin who knows him well, «but he also really knows what he wants and how to get there.»

Researchers now think that irradiation sometimes kills tumor cells in a manner that exposes new antigens to T cells, priming them to target other tumor cells that carry them as well, says Wenbin Lin, a chemist at the University of Chicago in Illinois, and one of the authors of the current study.

«One shouldn't view base editors as better than CRISPR — they're just different,» says David Liu, a chemist at Harvard University who pioneered DNA base editing in a paper in Nature last year and co-authored the latest Nature paper.

«No one knows how much carbon from permafrost soils will be released to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, but to answer that question, we have to know how it's going to happen,» said Rose Cory, an aquatic chemist and lead author of the study, published in Science in late August.

The initiative emphasizes algebra as the key to educational success and so will the panel, says its chair, Larry Faulkner, a chemist and president emeritus of the University of Texas, Austin.

«We probably won't be as radical as [previous activists], since we want to work within the system rather than be confrontational,» says Cynthia Friend, the sole woman chemist on Harvard's faculty and co-founder of a new panel seeking to increase the number of women researchers at that university.

But some space scientists have long made use of arXiv, and a subset of the earth scientists who published in the journals of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) have already become accustomed to such openness, as EGU has posted studies online prior to review for more than 15 years, says Ulrich Pöschl, an atmospheric chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, who helped found the journals.

«This research is an outcome of a fantastic fusion between my colleagues, which include biologists in my lab, chemists in the Itami lab, as well as the Molecular Structure Center at ITbM,» says Higashiyama.

«As a chemist, I'm obsessed with details,» says Rosen.

Chemist Matt Hartings of American University in Washington, D.C., says that most chemists who don't think regularly about isotopic abundances or teach general chemistry at college would probably consider the atomic weights as constants.

«Lila is a rigorous biophysical chemist, but unlike most chemists who avoid complexity and prefer reductionist type studies, Lila's whole career has been focused on applying chemistry and biophysical methods to the study of peptides and their role in biology as well as protein folding and trafficking in vivo,» says Jeffrey W. Kelly at The Scripps Research Institute.

«We showed how the metal compound works and how it facilitates proton movement,» said Dr. Liezel Labios, a synthetic organometallic chemist who led the experiments as a postdoctoral associate in the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis, an Energy Frontier Research Center led by PNNL.

«Our approach provides atom - by - atom control of the size and electron - by - electron control of the charge state of metal clusters on surfaces,» said Dr. Grant Johnson, a physical chemist involved in the study and former Linus Pauling Fellow who recently joined the Laboratory as a full - time scientist.

«The science is perhaps more important than the technology, as the artificial genetic systems are teaching us volumes about how natural genetic systems operate,» says chemist and co-author Steven Benner via email.

«These encouraging results should serve as a spark for another advancement in organic synthesis,» says K. C. Nicolaou, a synthetic chemist at Rice University, adding that Chematica could increase speed and productivity in chemistry labs, especially if paired with automated synthesis machines.

«If we can protect the mitochondria in the presence of these drugs, they can be resurrected as therapies,» says Buolamwini, a medicinal chemist and Chair of the department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

I say this as a PhD research chemist.

As chemist Mario Molina, one of the scientists whose pioneering research predicted ozone depletion, said 25 years ago, success at the UN negotiations would be «a victory for diplomacy and for science and for the fact that we were able to work together».

For that reason, chemists say the photosynthesis falls into a class of reactions known as multiple electron systems.