Sentences with phrase «by inorganic»

You do know that plant life absorbs photons and CO2, which is buffered by inorganic carbonate, and convert it to organic carbon.

I think part of the problem here is separating out what is caused only by inorganic arsenic consumption.

Even if you're relatively health - conscious, detoxifying once in a while is still important to give your body a rest from chemicals that are caused by inorganic food and the environment.

In this study we combined results from various in - situ mesocosm studies in two different ocean regions (Arctic and temperate waters) to reveal general patterns of plankton community shifts in response to OA and how these changes are modulated by inorganic nutrient availability.

For example, the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere comes from living things, but oxygen can also be produced by inorganic chemical reactions.

Consequently, massive amounts of reactive gases such as oxygen, hydrogen, and methane are continually being added to Earth's now «anomalous» atmosphere faster than they would otherwise be removed by inorganic chemical processes.

Not exact matches

The landscape of my soul was once a inorganic wasteland barren of the sustenance provided by the organic question.

Both direct themselves to the «way things are» not only by developing cosmogonies, accounts of the origin of the universe, but also in relation to nearer - at - hand experience of biological and inorganic nature» (Peacocke, 31).

2 With Paul Tillich, I prefer the term «dimension» to «level»: «Under the dominance of the metaphor «level» the inorganic either swallows the organic (control) or the organic processes are interfered with by a strange «vitalist» force (revolt)...» Systematic Theology Vol.

To answer this question we need to consult the descriptions of nonsocial nexus which Whitehead gives: «The characteristic of a living society is that a complex structure of inorganic societies is woven together for the production of a non-social nexus characterized by the intense physical feelings of its members» (PR 161).

Only recently has it been discovered that inorganic compounds in the manufacturing process can cause disease and death and the greatest explosive weapon ever devised by man is based upon the reaction of atoms which can not be seen by any conventional microscope.

(1) human life (2) animal life (3) vegetable life (4) single living cells (5) large scale inorganic aggregates of occasions (6) energy - events disclosed by modern physics

With Leibniz, Hartshorne maintains that some organisms are governed by a «dominant entelechy» that serves as a center of perception and activity (Monadology # 70); other organisms, and all inorganic wholes (e.g. chemical compounds and minerals), have insufficient organizational complexity to act or feel «as one.

By this he meant that although inorganic matter was inevitably subject to entropy, (all the structure of peaks and valleys puddling out into a flat line of cosmic death) organic matter, life, had a reverse drive for higher and higher complexities, from the amoebae to the whale brain.

Whether something of the sort may be supposed to occur in the organic realm does not solely depend on whether in the organic (sub-human) sphere, substantial formal principles essentially higher than the principles constitutive of inorganic reality can strictly be postulated by natural philosophy, in the way claimed by Vitalism rightly understood, as entelechies of sorts, though of course in themselves these could not be the objects of perception, because a posteriori and experimentally it is only complete beings which are met with, never principles of being as such.

These societies, called «inorganic» (PR 102) by Whitehead, can exist outside the structured society with only slight differences resulting from the change in their environment.

The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

For both Kukai and Whiteheadian thought, nature's continuity extends internal relatedness — a metaphysical relatedness in which individuals and societies are constituted by relationships of interdependence — to organic and inorganic nature.

Physics is the activity by which we attain our knowledge of the structure and dynamic interactions of the inorganic natural world.

The temptation to determinism in our thinking arises from the fact that the bulk of nature, the mineral level studied by geology, physics or inorganic chemistry is constituted by aggregates of occasions so conforming to their past that any present state in this inert realm seems to be the purely passive recipient of a series of events leading up to it.

Present states or movements in the inorganic arena appear to us to be determined totally by the history of past commotion in the macroscopic order as described by classical physics.

Science went to a lot of trouble to finally conclude that for the theory of evolution to apply to man; man was made from dust (organic and inorganic matter that was created by the big bang).

[He] is driven by the desire to transform the organic into the inorganic... as if all living persons were things» (HM 41).

For the most part the experiential occasions (such as those in the inorganic world) are only minimally affected by the reservoir of novelty.

This really is an effort to explain the vast gulf between inorganic and organic actuality by proposing that «subjectivity» and «mentality» emerged partway through Earth's history.

We have seen that inorganic societies, such as rock molecules, endure through time by repeating endlessly their patterns of physical feeling, and that it is just this endurance through time of a definite pattern of physical feeling which «catches our eye.»

Lismore City Council achieved the certification through Australian Organic by putting in place new screening processes to remove plastics and other inorganic materials from the kerbside waste as well as stringent product testing and cleaning / hygiene controls.

You have to factor in whether or not the element actually has any «proven» toxicity (tungsten has no demonstrated toxicity), whether it's organic or inorganic (organic arsenic is virtually ignored by the body), and whether it's bound or unbound (bound cadmium has only 2 - 6 % absorbability).

it doesn't fully address the difference between inorganic arsenic (which poses a health risk) vs. organic arsenic (which is not known to pose a health risk and is actually needed in low levels by the human body as noted here).

• Organic arsenic and organic cadmium are more common and hundreds of times less toxic than inorganic versions in plant - based food, they are easily flushed out by the body, and may have benefits including organic cadmium helping fight breast cancer (Journal of Inorganic Biochinorganic versions in plant - based food, they are easily flushed out by the body, and may have benefits including organic cadmium helping fight breast cancer (Journal of Inorganic BiochInorganic Biochemistry).

You experience certain problems by giving such foods to your child that may contain high levels of inorganic arsenic.

This study was performed in England by the UK Food Standards Agency, and found that the average concentration in rice drinks of total arsenic was 23 parts per billion, and inorganic arsenic was 12 parts per billion.

In 2012, Consumer Reports released a groundbreaking report which showed that many common rice products contain levels of inorganic arsenic which exceed the amount allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency in drinking water.

Summary of arsenic concentrations (ranges of total, inorganic, and methylated forms) reported for selected rice products consumed by infants.

Arsenic (As) exposure from rice is of particular concern for infants and children.1 - 4 Infant rice cereal, a common first food, 5,6 may contain inorganic As concentrations exceeding the recommendation from the Codex Alimentarius Commission of the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations of 200 ng / g for polished (white) rice, 4 the new European Union regulations of 100 ng / g for products aimed at infants7 (eTable 1 in the Supplement), and the proposed US Food and Drug Administration limit.8 Infants consuming only a few servings of rice cereal or other products (eg, rice snacks) per day may exceed the now - withdrawn provisional weekly tolerable intakes for As set by the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization Expert Committee on Food Additives.9, 10

Two puffed grain rice snacks were tested by the US Food and Drug Administration; the banana flavor had a total As concentration of 109 ng / g (46 ng / g inorganic), and the blueberry flavor was below the limit of quantitation of 3 ng / g.45 In the study by Signes - Pastor et al, 10 As concentrations in 97 rice crackers from 15 different brands ranged from 19 to 246 ng / g, with inorganic As ranging from 19 to 212 ng / g.

Total As concentrations ranged from 36.5 to 568 ng / g in the 9 different rice - based infant snack foods reported as being consumed by infants in our study, with roughly an equal distribution between inorganic and methylated As species (Table 2).

To that end, the FDA is proposing a limit, or «action level,» of 100 parts per billion for inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereal (in line with the limit established by the EU).

A composite thin film made of two different inorganic oxide materials significantly improves the performance of solar cells, as recently demonstrated by a joint team of researchers led by Professor Federico Rosei at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), and Dr. Riad Nechache from École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), both in the Montreal Area (Canada).

In cooperation with Dr. Peter Schmidt of Philips Technologie GmbH in Aachen, a team of researchers led by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schnick, who holds the Chair of Inorganic Solid - State Chemistry at LMU Munich, has developed a new material for application in light - emitting diodes (LEDs).

Researchers led by Olexandr Isayev, Ph.D., and Alexander Tropsha, Ph.D., at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy used data on approximately 60,000 unique materials from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Inorganic Crystal Structure Database to create a new methodology they call Properties Labeled Materials Fragments.

The PLMF method works by creating «fingerprints» from the structure of the crystals that comprise the smallest units of inorganic materials like ceramics, metals and metal alloys.

The team successfully added hydroxyapatite (HAp), the major inorganic component of bone, to the surface of DN gel by dipping it in calcium solution and phosphate solution.

Solubilization of inorganic salts in aprotic solvents, especially by saturated crown ethers, was demonstrated.

The performance and stability of inorganic - organic perovskite solar cells are also limited by the size of the cations required for forming a correct lattice.

That wholesome reputation came under fire last September when separate studies by Consumer Reports and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration showed that much of the rice in this country harbors a significant load of inorganic arsenic, a carcinogen associated with a wide variety of cancers.

The key to the technology, which has been filed as an international patent application by UD, is the use of a concentrated solution of an inorganic salt in the presence of a small amount of mineral acid.

By comparing the amount of carbon 13 in the inorganic particles with the absence of carbon 13 in the organic matter, scientists can estimate how much oxygen was present in the atmosphere at that time.

One compound, nitrate, is a major component of inorganic fertilizers that has helped make the area encompassed by the Mississippi River network the biggest producer of corn, soybeans, wheat, cattle and hogs, in the United States.

Organic components will be gasifed by the heat; the inorganic remainder will be melted and removed.