Sentences with phrase «by poisoning microbes»

Not exact matches

Of the remaining four billion years of Earth's history, our planet seems to have spent its first two billion as a «slime world» ruled by methane - belching microbes for which oxygen was not a life - giving gas, but a deadly poison.

On the other hand, many anaerobic microbes including methanogens are easily poisoned by oxygen, and the recent discovery of banded sediments with rusted iron on Akilia Island in West Greenland suggests that oxygen - producing, photosynthetic microbes (e.g., cyanobacteria) living on the surface of wet areas to gather sunlight may have developed by the end of this geologic period (3.85 billion years ago) despite continuing bombardment from space.

This is because colloidal silver doesn't poison the microbes like antibiotics do, but rather smothers them by adhering to their cell walls and inhibiting their enzyme production.

Once the nerve endings that are present in the stomach and mostly in the proximal small intestine are irritated by any agent, like toxins, acids, microbes, chemicals, poisons or even rapid and strong digestive activity, this results into a triggering note for the vomit center in brain or for CTZ.