Sentences with phrase «in on an ethanol»

With the help of Liva Harinantenaina, a research scientist working with Kingston, the team honed in on an ethanol extract of Mallotus oppositfolius, a West African tropical flowering plant often used as a chewing stick in Nigeria but not fully studied in the scientific world.
You seem to have ignored the alternate fuel vehicles which use some from of electrical propulsion and key in on ethanol.

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Because labeling laws on homeopathy are so different from regulations on real medicine with proven ingredients, the only actual drug in a bottle of homeopathic medicine — ethanol, the same active ingredient in vodka — doesn't have to be listed as a drug.
(Most gasoline contains 10 % ethanol, but regulators have approached E-15 (15 % ethanol) for use in vehicles manufactured from 2001 on, and all new car warranties approve the use of E-15.)
But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.
«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.
In response, the Asian giant proposed fresh duties on as much as $ 3 billion of U.S. products, including wine, fruits, nuts, ethanol and steel pipes.
Mr. Icahn stepped down as an unpaid adviser to President Trump in August, after scrutiny from members of Congress about whether he was influencing regulations on ethanol to benefit his financial investments.
There was a story in the Financial Times about the Brazilian government cutting the tax on ethanol producers.
The Brazilian government temporarily removed a 20 % tariff on ethanol through December 31, 2011, in a move to pressure the United States to lift its own tariffs on imported ethanol.
You mean like waste thousands of crops on Ethanol while people starve in developing countries?
In addition to ethanol, LifeLine also creates corn oil for the biodiesel industry, thus enabling it to cut down on waste while expanding its market reach.
Effect of different doses of ethanol on the milk ejecting reflex in lactating women.
Cobo E. Effect of different doses of ethanol on the milk - ejecting reflex in lactating women.
In another stroke of luck, New York dairy farmers have been well - positioned in recent years because they tend to grow much of their own feed corn, putting them at a competitive advantage over their larger California competitors: West Coast dairies are struggling with the high price of corn brought on by international demand, drought conditions and ethanol subsidieIn another stroke of luck, New York dairy farmers have been well - positioned in recent years because they tend to grow much of their own feed corn, putting them at a competitive advantage over their larger California competitors: West Coast dairies are struggling with the high price of corn brought on by international demand, drought conditions and ethanol subsidiein recent years because they tend to grow much of their own feed corn, putting them at a competitive advantage over their larger California competitors: West Coast dairies are struggling with the high price of corn brought on by international demand, drought conditions and ethanol subsidies.
So he decided to do his thesis research on the phenomenon of «stuck» fermentation, during which yeast stops converting sugar to ethanol and carbon dioxide, leaving an unwanted sweetness in the wine.
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But that trick doesn't work on ambrosia fungus, which fungus - eating beetles raise in «gardens» that have a ready supply of ethanol.
The study, «Trans - generational transmission of the effect of gestational ethanol exposure on ethanol use - related behavior,» was published Feb. 15 in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
To date, no study has shown a transgenerational effect of prenatal ethanol exposure on ethanol consumption in the second or third generation.
All this is happening with a fundamentally American technology: The flex - fuel engine and its precursor — the Model T, which Henry Ford expected to run on ethanol — were invented in the United States.
Brazil, on the other hand, has managed to provide 40 percent of its transportation fuel from sugarcane - derived ethanol and helped develop the flex - fuel technology that now allows drivers in the U.S. to switch between gasoline and the biofuel.
Michael Oshinsky at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and colleagues tested the effect of low doses of ethanol — about the equivalent of a single drink — on rats prone to migraines.
16 Ethanol was widely used as an industrial fuel in America until a tax on alcoholic beverages, levied to help pay for the Civil War, prompted a switch to kerosene and methanol.
Chemists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are closing in on cheap ways to make cellulosic ethanol, a form of ethanol derived from agricultural waste rather than food crops like soybeans or corn.
If all the brewery's CO2 could be stored in this way, the ethanol could become a biofuel to burn, one that actually reduces the amount of CO2 in the air and that seems to be one of the last hopes on offer to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius.
Naomi Halas and co-workers at Rice University in Houston laced a mixture of water and ethanol with gold — silica nanoparticles and shone laser light on the suspension from above.
Those enormous buds that bobbed in Nikolov's ethanol solution take nine months to form, and when they finally bloom, the flowers last only a week before turning into what Nikolov calls «a slimy mush» on the forest floor.
The scientists say that the presence of the oxygen in the copper causes some of the copper to become positively charged and this, in turn, stabilizes the CO2 so that it can bind to water and take on the bent configuration essential to eventually making ethanol.
But experts at a major scientific meeting today described how ethanol blends used as fuel in the race cars of the Indianapolis 500 actually make those emissions cleaner than cars on the street.
Indresh Mathur, Ph.D., who gave one of the talks, explained that cars on streets and highways in the U.S. run on a mixture of 90 percent unleaded gasoline and 10 percent ethanol.
Mice in booze camp In the new study, performed on adolescent male mice, ethanol alcohol exposure seemed to enhance synaptic plasticity in the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a part of the brain that plays a critical role in the reward pathwain booze camp In the new study, performed on adolescent male mice, ethanol alcohol exposure seemed to enhance synaptic plasticity in the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a part of the brain that plays a critical role in the reward pathwaIn the new study, performed on adolescent male mice, ethanol alcohol exposure seemed to enhance synaptic plasticity in the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a part of the brain that plays a critical role in the reward pathwain the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a part of the brain that plays a critical role in the reward pathwain the reward pathway.
Specifically, the most suitable regions to grow bioenergy grasses in terms of impact on water (and ultimately ethanol production) are eastern Ohio, eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and the Northern Atlantic regions.
Theresa Selfa, a professor at the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry, examined the socio - economic impacts of corn ethanol on small communities in Kansas and Iowa in a 2011 study.
Jennings also noted, however, that Trump has gone on record in supporting ethanol because it fits with the president - elect's theme of achieving energy independence (although Trump also has listened to some powerful oil industry voices critical of some parts of the RFS).
The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA), the trade group for sugar - cane ethanol from Brazil, criticized the IPCC for raising alarm on biofuels in the Working Group II report published on March 31.
As attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prices.
Campaigning on ethanol, not water Ann Robinson, an agriculture policy specialist at the Iowa Environmental Council, said the lack of attention to agriculture seemed fairly typical for presidential campaigning in Iowa.
The catalyst works on bio-based ethanol to create isobutene used in plastics and other products.
For all its prowess in making cheap ethanol, Brazil, which spends relatively little on R&D, has fallen behind in the race to convert cellulose to fuel.
In a study on the risks, researchers found that clean ethanol - burning stoves are healthier than traditional units.
Biologists know that compared with flies from tropical Africa, flies from temperate regions such as Europe survive longer when exposed to ethanol vapors of high concentrations, and they know it has something to do with enzymes on the flies» second chromosomes, which break down alcohol and are more active in European flies.
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.
Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all - electric cars as for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).
«Ozone and nitric oxide are both contributors to urban smog, so depending on how well a city is able to mitigate air pollution, ethanol may not be the «green fuel» that it is often called,» said Geiger, professor of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.
The team focused on yeast in part because of its important modern - day applications; yeasts are used to convert the sugars of biomass feedstocks into biofuels such as ethanol and industrial chemicals such as lactic acid, or to break down organic pollutants.
Cellulose is difficult to break down and ferment, but several facilities in the United States are on the verge of making commercial cellulosic ethanol — for example, by using specialist enzymes to break down the long - chain cellulose molecules — and Brazil doesn't want to be left behind.
Mice adapt well to the ethanol during this gradual increase in exposure and continue to grow on the Lieber - DeCarli ethanol diet (2).
We are particularly interested in uncovering the effects of chronic ethanol exposure and abstinence on the extracellular matrix, on the microtubule cytoskeleton and on the proteome of excitatory synapses.
Animals receive an intraperitoneal (IP) injection of olive oil or CCl4 (prediluted1: 3 in olive oil) on day 3 of the 2 % ethanol diet.
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