Sentences with phrase «fluorine gas»

At a conversion plant, uranium oxide combines with fluorine gas to create uranium hexafluoride (UF6), a chemical compound that is a powder at room temperature and a gas when heated.

Their process involved simultaneously pumping inexpensive fluorine gas and a solution of cytosine in formic acid through a steel tube.

Not exact matches

We can cross out gases, halogens, and liquids such as helium, fluorine and mercury.

Because hydrogen fluoride molecules break down at high temperatures, the spectra of warmer stars show less of the gas than those of cooler ones do — even if the warmer stars contain just as much fluorine.

The researchers detected the gas in 51 of their targets, by far the largest number of normal stars in which fluorine has been seen.

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Navin Fluorine, an Indian maker of industrial gases used in refrigerators, saw its shares rise six per cent today after it was awarded carbon credits under a controversial part of the UN's Clean Development...

Besides carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases include water vapor, methane (natural gas), nitrous oxide (from fertilizer use), and chlorine - and fluorine - containing gases used in air conditioning units and as solvents.

-- Concentrations of many of the fluorine - containing Kyoto Protocol gases (hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons, SF6) have increased by large factors (between 4.3 and 1.3) between 1998 and 2005.

In fact, molecule - for - molecule some gases containing lots of fluorine are 10,000 times stronger at absorbing radiation than carbon dioxide.