Sentences with phrase «chemicals from seawater»
Plastic can take hundreds of years to degrade, so bottles and bags can be a danger to wildlife, strangling birds, mammals and fish, and soaking up toxic chemicals from seawater that can poison any creatures that swallow them.
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A Cologne working group involving Prof. Carsten Münker and Dr. Elis Hoffmann and their student Sebastian Viehmann (working with Prof. Michael Bau from the Jacobs University Bremen) have managed for the first time to determine the isotope composition of the rare trace elements Hafnium and Neodymium in 2.7 - billion - year - old seawater by using high purity chemical sediments from Temagami Banded Iron Formation (Canada) as an archive.
In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).
The heat apparently derives from a chemical reaction between mantle rock and seawater.
«Synthesizing a material that's superior at adsorbing uranium from seawater required a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional team including chemists, computational scientists, chemical engineers, marine scientists and economists,» said Sheng Dai, who has technical oversight of the ORNL uranium from seawater program.
The only thing that I need to be careful is to avoid the lens from getting any exposure to chemicals such as perfume and seawater as it can cause problem to the lens.