Sentences with phrase «called hydrogen sulfide»

An animal - based diet may trigger IBD by causing microbial enzyme activity in the intestines, which produces a harmful gas called hydrogen sulfide.

Not exact matches

Hydrogen - sulfide ice can form clouds, but the solid crystals are hard for chemical - analyzing instruments called spectrometers to study.

By contrast, in the tube worm millions of symbiotic bacteria that dwell within the its large plumes grab hydrogen sulfide and other noxious chemicals that seep from the vents and convert them into food and energy for their host, a process called chemosynthesis.

Human cells contain a protein called SQR that was thought to detoxify sulfur, but Mitchell's data indicate that it may allow cells to switch to hydrogen sulfide for energy production when oxygen isn't around.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, took the novel step of converting the chemical scrubbers that remove hydrogen sulfide into so - called biotrickling filters, adding water and Thiobacillus microbes, which reduce hydrogen sulfide into nonsmelly sulfate.

Therefore, the research group targeted molecular line emissions from hydrogen cyanide (HCN), formyl ion (HCO +), and hydrogen sulfide (CS) at millimeter / submillimeter wavelengths (* 4) in the galaxy called NGC 1097 (about 50 million light years away) with the ALMA Telescope in the Atacama Desert in Chile.

The smell appears to come primarily from the digestion of sulfur - rich foods, so to cut down on the stench, experts have recommended cutting back on foods such as meat and eggs (hydrogen sulfide is called «rotten egg gas» for a reason).

Chemicals called amines can bind to carbon dioxide and to hydrogen sulfide, another pollutant in coal combustion.