Sentences with phrase «clay particles»

The traditional clay based litter is composed of clay particles that will absorb urine to some extent.

The addition of compost, or other organic material such as aged manure, clusters the small clay particles into lumps that will improve drainage and aeration and will make the soil easier to work and more friable (easily crumbled).

Variations on clay particles include green pellets (resembling rabbit food) or shredded cedar (like hamster bedding).

Clay also has detoxifying effects as the negatively charged clay particles attract positively charged pathogens and take them out of the body.

Kalaga and his team started by baking commercial clay particles at 650 degrees Celsius for an hour to dry them out.

Clay particles often become encapsulated in these vesicles, thus providing a pathway for the prebiotic encapsulation of catalytically active surfaces within membrane vesicles.

Clay particles bond with heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium, and lead.

Such platforms on Ambergris are not usually built of stone, but of marl, a clay that results from limestone crumbling into small clay particles.

Since climate models simulate the actual number of clay particles in the atmosphere, Kok's work suggests that the models are likely to be inaccurate when it comes to silt particles.

In particular, the distilled water from the treatment plant was lacking in calcium and magnesium; this deficiency caused calcium and magnesium atoms in the sediments to migrate into the water and off of charged clay particles that harbored the arsenic.

When a seed is planted in the appropriate soil, it is planted in a rich composite of properties such as organic elements, minerals, rock and clay particles, acids, water, etc..

Although it's not completely clear why the rocks held and released energy this way, Saffer believes the flatness of clay particles and the way clay absorbs water are part of the answer.

«You just mix the RNA with clay, and mix it with the fatty acids, and voilà, you have RNA on the clay particles inside the vesicles.»

Normally, free DNA molecules break down within days, but certain DNA fragments are preserved because they bind to clay particles,» says Professor Göran Englund, one of the researchers behind the study.

Also, many clays contain naturally occurring aluminum; however, the aluminum in bentonite clay is in oxide form in a clay particle and can not be absorbed by the human body.

Clay particles, defined as having a size less than 1 - 2 microns, have a very large surface area relative to their size.

These mineral ions are available for absorption, while other minerals that form an integral part of the clay particles may, in some circumstances, be available for absorption through ionic exchange at the point of contact with the intestinal villi.

The majority of CN were salt particles, kaolinite, the smallest clay particles and other particulates.

silt unconsolidated or loose sedimentary material whose constituent rock particles are finer than grains of sand and larger than clay particles

Before the IPCC we knew that the major sources of condensation nuclei (CN) were salt from the oceans and the clay particles.

His study, published online Dec. 28 by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicates that the ratio of silt to clay particles is two to eight times greater than represented in climate models.