Sentences with phrase «from seawater»

They will further explore the potential of uranium from seawater to keep the world's lights on.

While lithium isn't particularly rare, it's still harder to come by than sodium, which can be extracted from seawater.

According to one European report, researchers studied nearly 400 children ages 6 to 10 and found that a nasal spray made from seawater relieved cold symptoms faster than standard cold medications.

An increasingly common feature of reefs worldwide, it is brought on by thermal stress resulting from seawater temperature anomalies associated with climate change.

Still, it's important to keep open wounds away from seawater and raw seafood.

It's hand - harvested from seawater and then dried by the sun and wind, retaining the ocean's moisture and vast array of trace minerals.

As a particularly troubling example, coral use calcium carbonate taken from the seawater to construct themselves.

Thus, the question was: Which process is removing the iron from the seawater?

It's only once they have ingested enough microbes from seawater and food that they become poisonous.

Since it draws half its fuel from seawater, there is enough to last humanity millions of years.

Look out for the handpainted wooden signs for salt (garam in Bahasa Indonesia) on the side of the road at Kusamba and buy directly from the families that have been making salt from seawater using the same method for hundreds of years.

UCF researcher Yang Yang has come up with a new hybrid nanomaterial that harnesses solar energy and uses it to generate hydrogen from seawater more cheaply and efficiently than current materials.

It even addresses ocean acidification: Zero emission synfuel from seawater.

Artist's conceptualization of the hybrid nanomaterial photocatalyst that's able to generate solar energy and extract hydrogen gas from seawater.

But at some point during whale history, the ancestors of modern mysticetes replaced teeth with baleen, fibrous plates that filter out small bits of food from seawater like a giant sieve.

[Philip Francis Thomsen et al., Environmental DNA from Seawater Samples Correlate with Trawl Catches of Subarctic, Deepwater Fishes]

Fleur de sel is the top layer of sea salt skimmed from seawater evaporation ponds and often has a delicious minerally flavor; find it at gourmet grocery stores.

Callahan, a naval architect and experienced sailor, survived by catching fish with a makeshift spear and drinking from his raft's solar stills — inflatable plastic tents that captured one pint of evaporated freshwater from seawater each day.

Oxygen from seawater permeated only the upper millimeter or so of sediment, but the researchers noticed something happening much deeper in the mud, more than a centimeter below, as if oxygen were available down there, as well.

Dominic Michaelis the co-designer of the Energy Island OTEC platform concept, together with Jerome Tomasi have written a paper which compares the costs of using reverse osmosis to make fresh water from seawater with the cost of doing the same with an open cycle OTEC plant.

Environmental DNA from Seawater Samples Correlate with Trawl Catches of Subarctic, Deepwater Fishes.

As more carbon dioxide dissolves in the oceans, it becomes harder for many marine animals to extract calcium from seawater to build their skeletons.

Another is that limestone is primarily precipitated from seawater, as explained on pages 263 — 268.

To learn how pH had changed, the group tracked differences in the rocks» amounts of two forms of boron, an element that came from the seawater of that Permian ocean.

Within five years this team has developed new adsorbents that reduce the cost of extracting uranium from seawater by three to four times.

The Uranium from Seawater program continues to make significant advancements, producing adsorbents with even higher capacities for grabbing uranium.

Ocean feeders readily ingest them, leading to transfer of the plastics themselves and any chemicals they contain or have absorbed 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.

Ours is the only group making hydrates from seawater....

Unlike predatory rays that attack and crush prey with their mouths, the filter - feeder rays eat plankton particles, larvae and fish eggs that they sieve from seawater.

The new design cuts the cost of extracting uranium from seawater from $ 1232 to $ 660 per kilogram.

Much of our information on past climates comes from the composition of sediments and the shells of marine organisms, which take up chemical substances from seawater as they grow.

The US Navy research has calculated the cost of making jet fuel from seawater on board their nuclear powered aircraft carriers.

Fusion is regarded as the Holy Grail of alternative energy sources since, in theory at least, it produces no harmful emissions or radioactive waste, and its main fuel, hydrogen isotopes, can be obtained from seawater.

The idea of harvesting precious metals from seawater has attracted swindlers and Nobel chemists alike.

Instead of traditionally expensive and difficult methods of removing salt and other impurities from seawater, Max wants to do it naturally.

Because natural mechanisms drive the desalination process, Max says, there is no need to mechanically remove crystals or hydrate chunks from the seawater.

In ITER, the nuclei used will be deuterium and tritium — isotopes of hydrogen — which can be extracted in almost limitless quantities from seawater.

And this polluted air and water vapor certainly will be carried to the near shore and left as an oily residue on everything from trees to electrical transformers, just as the salt from seawater often coats several kilometers inland in the wake of a hurricane.

In the 1920s the Nobel Prize — winning chemist Fritz Haber dreamed of paying Germany's World War I reparations with gold sifted from seawater.

Such uranium deposits in Canada, Australia and Kazakhstan comprise the bulk of the world's known supply — although uranium is a ubiquitous atom that can even be derived from seawater.

The team examined a range of fossils unearthed from limestone rocks in Siberia, which formed millions of years ago from seawater with high levels of calcium carbonate.

Nothing seemed to help the bacteria produce methane — until, that is, they added pure polysaccharides isolated from seawater.

Because algae and other photosynthetic ocean life require phosphate to grow, removing phosphate from seawater reduced their growth.

Tropical cyclones on Earth gain their energy from the build - up of heat from seawater evaporation and miniature versions have been seen over big lakes such as Lake Huron.

It suggests making coastal development more burdensome through more stringent building codes, siting requirements, and forcing real estate title holders to fully disclose insurance risks associated with storm surges or damage from seawater intrusion.

We have applied «whole - genome shotgun sequencing» to microbial populations collected en masse on tangential flow and impact filters from seawater samples collected from the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda.