Sentences with phrase «detecting traces of»

It has long been known that graphene is also fundamentally suited to detecting traces of organic molecules.

The puffer machine is what the TSA calls an «explosive trace portal,» a state - of - the - art device capable of detecting traces of explosive residue on a person's body or clothing.

In a partnership with Uber and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), Frito - Lay's Tostitos has created a limited time «Party Safe» bag — one that is equipped with sensors and can detect any trace of alcohol on a person's breath, USA Today reports.

From my point of view, ID is just an attempt to detect traces of God in the non-miraculous.

And now you're insisting that anyone who detected a trace of old - fashioned sexism in your comment is out of line or too thin - skinned.

Disclosure that laboratory tests have detected traces of melamine and a key byproduct in several major brands of infant formula generated concern and confusion Wednesday.

All told, the T - Limit team expects to detect traces of life as sparse as six microbial cells per cubic centimeter of sediment.

Only one of the three studies detected a trace of their existence: About 2 percent of the genomes of Papuans are probably from these earlier migrants.

After the suicide, Jones looked back at Shin's application but could detect no trace of the problems the girl had reportedly struggled with since high school.

Last year he announced that he had detected traces of the oldest alcoholic beverage yet discovered, a Stone Age brew dating back 9,000 years.

There is no other portable instrument that can detect traces of as wide a range of these types of compounds, Bruno says.

The Swedish Defence Research Institute says it has detected traces of the explosion last month at a nuclear reprocessing plant near Tomsk in Siberia.

University of Oslo immunologist Erik Thorsby first began analyzing the people of Easter Island in 1971 to see if he and colleagues could detect traces of an early contribution of Native Americans to Polynesians.

Scientists were able to detect traces of 163 of those compounds, including mercury, flame retardants, DDT, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and phthalates (a pervasive chemical that makes plastics soft and facilitates the addition of scents to shampoos, soaps, lotions, and deodorants).

The LCROSS results will flesh out the surprise announcements in September that three other spacecraft — India's Chandrayaan - 1 and NASA's Deep Impact and Cassini — detected traces of water on the moon's surface by studying reflected infrared light from the sun.

In the year it spent before it moved on to Ceres, Dawn studied the surface of Vesta and detected no trace of the mantle that should have covered the floor of Rheasilvia.

The spacecraft mapped Martian terrain with a laser altimeter, detected traces of magnetic fields with its magnetometer, and mapped at least 20 new impact craters between the time it started operations and the time it fell silent.

However, the researchers could not detect traces of recent liaisons between the two species in their genomes.

Excitingly, it may be easier to detect traces of life on this moon than we realize.

The duo's clever playfulness results in a horror movie that's perhaps not entirely groundbreaking (genre fans will detect traces of Cube and Saw) but is so revisionist it makes Scream look almost earnest.

I never detected a trace of torque steer.

I couldn't detect any trace of torque steer.

The move comes after routine tests by the agency last month detected traces of Salmonella in the product.

While as humans we are unable to detect traces of scent left behind by runaway children or even escaped criminals and thieves, a scent hound is easily able to detect scent trails by following the scent offered to it on an artifact.

Drug and bomb sniffing dogs are dogs which are used to detect traces of illegal substances or explosives.

In them can be detected traces of Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keefe and perhaps Andrew Wyeth, but Katz's influences have often been strongly European: Picasso, Miro, Matisse — some of the same artists Hockney looked and may still look at — as well as earlier painters such as Watteau and Rembrandt, for gesture and composition.

Dunham has built his pictorial vocabulary over three decades of grappling with the past century's rich heritage of painterly possibilities (including abstraction, which he practiced exclusively for many years); today one can detect traces of Léger, Guston and the various twists and turns of New York painting in the 1980s, when he began making abstractions on wood veneer.

Although Stromberg's use of the qualifying «less than» suggests that he believes that Mazur's trajectory is more difficult to characterize than that of the other two artists, which it is, one also detects a trace of the writer's unease.

The late - 20th century has seen the rise of the new kind of curator like Hans Ulrich Obrist - the super - articulate, multi-tasking engineer of spectacle on whom you can't detect a trace of musty museum odour.

But the research detected no trace of the chemicals injected into or removed from wells during the drilling process called hydraulic fracturing or «fracking.»

If you see any of these signs or detect traces of mildew and mold in your home, then it's time to check your windows and caulk them for good.

Not exact matches

And then there was Ikea's most recent crisis, in which the company was forced to recall its Swedish meatballs across European stores this year after traces of horse meat were detected in one batch.

The characteristic features of the present age could of course be detected in former times as faint traces, so to speak, because man was always to some degree the inventor and active manipulator of his own situation and the creator of himself.

«51 In consequence, therefore, of all these principles, one can not detect in Hartshorne's doctrine of man even the faintest traces of despair of life's ultimate meaning, fear or perplexity in the face of death, moral vertigo, or denigration of the enduring value of our transient earthly life.

The only trace of it you'll detect is a pleasant sweetness that actually enhances the juicy tomato taste.

Traces of phthalates, a chemical found in food packaging and equipment, were detected in products of powdered macaroni and cheese mixes, according to a study by the Coalition for Safer Food Processing & Packaging.

Is there any inspection equipment to detect seeds or traces of plastics, thread etc. in food products?

Traces of the industrial chemical melamine have been detected in samples of top - selling U.S. infant formula, but federal regulators insist the products are safe.

With no significant Al - Shabaab activity detected outside of the Kenyan - Somalia area during 2010 - 12, and no seizures of ivory in destination or transit ports traced back to Somalia during that period, it is clear this heady mix of environmental crime and terrorism has been misleading.

The first applications of frequency combs focused on detecting trace amounts of chemicals and high precision time - keeping.

A pair of scientists reported at the American Chemical Society meeting here today that they've developed a machine that in just minutes can detect trace compounds in the breath and diagnose diseases such as diabetes, kidney failure, ulcers, and possibly even cancer.

It could also be used to detect trace amounts of gas, or be adapted to make precise atom interferometers, which measure small variations in gravity, she says.

Nanowires carved from silicon detect small traces of protein and might be amenable to mass production

It is quite probable that Earth 2.0 will be hundreds or even thousands of light years away; too far from us to detect trace chemical «biosignatures» that would suggest life.

But University of Utah engineers have developed a new type of fiber material for a handheld scanner that can detect small traces of alkane fuel vapor, a valuable advancement that could be an early - warning signal for leaks in an oil pipeline, an airliner, or for locating a terrorist's explosive.

«Traces of Zika Found in Asian tiger mosquito in Brazil: Virus fragments detected in species other than Zika's known primary vector.»

It's inexpensive, quick and easy to use and could be done on site to detect trace amounts of explosive.

«We took breath samples from 13 subjects who were undergoing methadone management, to explore whether traces of the drug could be detected via their breath, rather than using invasive techniques that disturb the integrity of the subject.

«Detecting trace amounts of explosives with light.»

Spacecraft were not detecting all of the spectroscopic signatures of the gas, for example, and ground - based observers had to contend with interference from methane and other trace gases in Earth's atmosphere.