Sentences with phrase «called ethylene»

One particularly scary sterilizing agent used is called ethylene oxide, a gas that can leave behind a residue that's carcinogenic.

Packers then use a gas called ethylene to trigger fruit ripening, and after that the tomatoes are stored and shipped at low temperatures.

That's why at Swansea we have converted waste carbon dioxide into a molecule called ethylene.

The researchers have determined the structure of the intermediate formed when the hydrocarbon ethene (also called ethylene) reacts with halogens such as chlorine and bromine.

(Commercial antifreeze is made of a sugar alcohol similar to glucose, called ethylene glycol.)

The chemical name for the plastic you see every day — from water bottles and grocery bags to household appliances — is polyethylene, a pliable material made by stringing together long chains of a simpler molecule called ethylene.

Mature green tomatoes give off a gas, called ethylene, which aids in the ripening process.

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This is because fresh produce releases a gas called «ethylene» into the atmosphere.

The team spliced a nonfunctional gene for the ethylene receptor, taken from a common laboratory plant called Arabidopsis, into petunias.

The findings, published in the journal Science, show that materials called metal - organic frameworks (MOFs) can effectively remove the contaminant acetylene from ethylene, the material from which much of the world's plastic is made.

In the publication, specialists from the Radboud Trace Gas Facility and several medical groups from Radboud UMC, Johns Hopkins University and the Imperial College London explain how ethylene is being formed as a product of the so called respiratory burst.

If ingested, the so called toxic alcohols (other than ethanol) such as methanol, propanol, and ethylene glycol metabolize into toxic aldehydes and acids, which cause potentially fatal metabolic acidosis.

We have a series called «Cheeseburger Chemistry,» where we look at the chemistry behind different components of an average cheeseburger: the denaturing of proteins in the turning liquid milk into solid cheese; the role of ethylene in ripening tomatoes; the gas and sugar reactions in the bread dough used to make the bun.

An analysis of the calls made to the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center show that the number of ethylene glycol (EG) antifreeze cases is fairly static throughout the year, with the exception of a small spike in December.

Our class action lawsuit attorneys won a settlement for 850 workers who were exposed to the dangerous chemical ethylene dichloride (also called EDC) in Lake Charles, Louisiana.