Sentences with phrase «higher concentrations of chemicals»

Crustaceans at 10,000 meters contain higher concentrations of chemicals than some animals in coastal waters

However, some water supplies may contain higher concentrations of chemicals or additives.

Researchers from Radboud University in the Netherlands found that in the two decades since Dutch farmers began using the pesticide on a variety of crops, the birds» population declined by an average of 3.5 percent annually in farmlands where local water levels contained high concentrations of the chemical.

Some milkweeds have a higher concentration of chemicals called cardenolides, which make the butterflies toxic to predators.

TEMPERATURES are rising in France over a proposed change to European safety rules that would ban high concentrations of a chemical in suntan lotions because of suspicions that it may cause cancer.

«Inside these compartments inside the ice, you have a high concentration of chemical compounds, and you also have lipids, fats, that coat the inside of the compartment,» he said.

(The more time the receptor is bound, the higher the concentration of the chemical.)

By the 1970's DuPont discovered that workers in its Washington, WV plant had high concentrations of the chemical in their blood, yet they still did not disclose this information to the EPA.

However, the high concentration of these chemicals in the form of aspartame floods your central nervous system and can cause excessive firing of brain neurons.

Q: An environmental group has sued several pet stores and manufacturers claiming that flea collars have high concentrations of chemicals in them that are dangerous to pets and people.

In the case of this study, the highest concentration of a chemical found in blood was 226 micrograms per liter of mono - ethyl phthalate (a chemical which is made when the body metabolizes diethyl phthalate, a common ingredient of cosmetics and personal care products).

Not exact matches

Its high MCT Potency (90 + % Concentration) is achieved through a purely physical process that removes most of the long chain fatty acids, without the use of any chemicals.

If you can't eat your cosmetics (due to high concentrations of toxins and chemicals), you probably shouldn't put it on your face.

These fruits and vegetables tested positive for a number of chemical pesticide residues, showing higher concentrations of pesticides than other produce on the market.

While that's great for lowering your little one's amount of exposure to the chemical, it means it won't last quite as long as higher concentrations.

The result: the more products that parents used on their babies, the higher the concentrations of phthalates found in their urine, leading to the hypothesis that phthalates enter children's bodies not only when substances containing this chemical enter through their mouths but also through their skin.

I do know that breastmilk has benefits formula will never have even when it has high concentrations of PCBs or other chemicals and even when the mother smokes.

After a meeting with members of the community to hear their accounts of the fallout of the pollution — including diminished property values and blood testing that revealed many residents have higher - than - normal concentrations of the toxic chemical in their bodies — Nixon will take part in a news conference with former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith Enck, according to her campaign.

Despite the long gap since then, mean concentration of the chemicals in the blubber of some populations of Europe's killer whales exceeds — often by a lot — a high threshold for health damage.

And so did the scent of chemicals from the armpit, called axillary secretions, some of which are found at higher concentrations in male mammals than in females.

Women of higher socioeconomic status in the study had a greater concentration of chemicals compared to the women of lower socioeconomic status

Simulations that don't include the effect of CH2Cl2 suggest that high - altitude ozone in the Antarctic will return to pre-1980 levels, the concentration measured before CFCs and other ozone - destroying chemicals were recognized as a problem, in 2065.

The odds of failed implantation doubled among women with the highest blood level of PCB - 153 (the form of the chemical, on average, present in the highest concentration) compared to women with the lowest levels.

Children under five living near a chemical plant in West Virginia were found to have higher concentrations of an industrial chemical than their mothers

Diesel fuel contains a high concentration of carcinogenic chemicals including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene, and they disperse easily in groundwater.

Chemical analyses of the haze conducted in the 1970s found unusually high concentrations of vanadium, a metal associated with the burning of fuel oil.

This continues until the dogs locate the spot with the highest concentration of whatever toxic chemical they are sniffing out.

The striatum contains high concentrations of endorphins — chemicals that enhance feelings of pleasure and reward.

«We used our knowledge of how the spinal cord develops to identify the right combination of chemicals and to improve our procedure to give us the highest concentration of V2a interneurons.»

Their offspring maintained a high concentration of TPT and showed comparable rates of deformities to sturgeon in the wild, suggesting that the chemical accumulates in the fish and is passed to its eggs.

The PBDE doses were higher than those found in the blood of most humans tested, according to Kopf, but these chemicals accumulate in the adrenal gland, where their concentrations are higher.

In one case, turning on and off a blue light caused the special yeast to alternate between producing ethanol, a product of normal fermentation, and isobutanol, a chemical that normally would kill yeast at sufficiently high concentration.

We already know that newly hatched male hide beetles (Dermestes maculatus) are attracted by benzyl butyrate, a chemical that is released in relatively high concentrations by cadavers in the late stage of decay.

During its Enceladus flybys, Cassini was able to fly through the plumes, revealing a surprisingly rich chemical cocktail — including a high concentration of organic chemistry.

They found that the concentration of these chemicals was twice as high in sweat as in urine and suggested that perspiration may help eliminate of some toxic compounds.

The EWG's most recent report listed Neutrogena as the # 1 sunscreen brand to avoid, citing high concentrations of oxybenzone and other hormone disrupting chemicals, and misleading claims about their SPF levels.

These chemicals have such a long half - life that people «consuming regular (even [just] monthly) meals of [farmed] salmon... might [not only] consume high concentrations of [pollutants], but some of these [chemicals] might take between 50 and 75 years to clear from the body.»

What makes cayenne pepper particularly special is its high concentration of capsaicin — a chemical component found in all chill peppers that acts as an irritant among most mammals (a.k.a. that hot, burning sensation).

Young vegetable sprouts contain higher concentrations of potentially harmful chemicals than mature vegetables because baby plants are vulnerable and need more protection from predators.

The future concentrations of LLGHGs and the anthropogenic emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2), a chemical precursor of sulphate aerosol, are obtained from several scenarios considered representative of low, medium and high emission trajectories.

The process of breaking big rocks into smaller ones releases more minerals and chemicals so the water below valley fills contains higher concentrations of selenium

But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).

It is not concentration of CO2 that does it, it is the rate of change from one state (low CO2) to another (high CO2)-- takes time to balance the chemical reactions via ocean mixing rates.

Oxybenzone, a UV - filtering chemical compound found in 3,500 brands of sunscreen worldwide, can be fatal to baby coral and damaging to adults in high concentrations, according to the study published on Tuesday in the Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.