Sentences with phrase «chemicals under high pressure»

Mr. Fox is preparing a sequel to «Gasland,» which has contributed to widespread concern about fracking, a method of mining that uses large volumes of water and chemicals under high pressure to free gas deposits from underground shale.

Hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» involves injecting liquids, sand and chemicals under high pressure to break apart tight rock formations underground to allow more oil and gas to escape into the well.

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As a result of brewing under high pressure (ideally between 9 — 10 atm), the espresso beverage is more concentrated (as much as 10 to 15 times the quantity of coffee to water as gravity - brewing methods can produce) and has a more complex physical and chemical constitution.

With fracking, millions of gallons of water, dangerous chemicals, and sand are injected under high pressure deep into the earth, fracturing hard rock to release oil and gas.

In addition, researchers replicated the conditions under which the fossils formed to identify the chemical alteration of melanin, subjecting modern feathers to high temperatures and pressures to better understand how chemical signatures changed during millions of years of burial.

Placing her «chemical gardens» under high pressure, to simulate conditions on the ocean floor, only improves the efficiency of RNA formation.

Silica's various high - pressure forms make it an often - used study subject for scientists interested in the transition between different chemical phases under extreme conditions, such as those mimicking the deep Earth.

Alexander F. Goncharov's analyzes materials under extreme conditions such as high pressure and temperature using optical spectroscopy and other techniques to understand how matter fundamentally changes, the chemical processes occurring deep within planets, including Earth, and to understand and...

On the other hand, meal # 2 is made up of mostly wholesome nourishing real food — real meat, real cheese, real tomato, real grains; no industrially produced oil artificially altered under high heat, high pressure, flushed with hexane solvents, deodorants, and bleaching chemicals like the oil that is soaked into that breaded chicken breast.

The critics of icecore measurements arguments that high CO2 levels are surpressed from several chemical reactions, ecpecially under pressure.

Then a mixture, commonly known as fracking fluid, of water (90 percent), sand (9.5 percent) and chemicals (0.5 percent) is pumped into the well under high pressure to create micro-fractures in the shale and free the natural gas or oil.

Fracking is a process that involves using a chemical and water mix under high pressure.