Sentences with phrase «in small chemical»

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It's a pie - in - the sky vision for a small company, but even a fraction of that would be a revolution in an industry that has been reliant on petroleum - based chemicals for half a century.

In each case, the brain releases a small amount of dopamine, a reward - seeking chemical that promotes repeat behavior.

Breen and Dow CEO Andrew Liveris have vowed to cut R&D and break the combined company into three smaller firms, leaving it a weakened player in a competition against global chemical giants like Germany's BASF and Bayer, and China's Sinopec and Sinochem.

Bashar was beaten regularly, put to work as a house slave for her captor's family in Raqqa, and forced to work in an explosives warehouse, where she made suicide vests using a chemical paste infused with small metal components, or «pieces of iron,» she recalls.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

We had a CEO of a Credit Union, a Commercial Real Estate Banker, an Orthodontist, a Massage Therapist Business owner, A Current Small Business Banker, an Insurance Agent, a Financial Services Agent and Financial Planner, A Multiple Business Owner in the Construction Industry, A very successful Entrepreneur and chemical engineer who bought and sold multiple business, a Healthcare Facility owner, and a current Pastor.

Only a very small number of companies have set long - term (2030 or later) targets which can be considered to be in line with a sectoral 2 °C pathway.282 An analysis of 70 of the world's largest publicly listed corporate emitters, across the aluminium, cement, chemicals and electric utilities sectors, found that 21 had targets up to 2020 which could be considered consistent with a 2 °C sectoral pathway, but only 7 had targets to 2030 or later.283 Twenty others had non-2 °C or «irrelevant» targets, and the rest had none at all.

This miniscule chemical aberration may cause a large or small change in the encoded organism.

Recombinant DNA research has been done primarily on bacteria, one - celled organisms smaller than animal or plant cells and simpler in structure, yet capable of very complex chemical activity.

I refer here to the small group of scientists who argue that in fact there is no qualitative difference between living organisms and other chemical processes.

Apart from the added chemicals problem, the «wet» scallops have a washed out, soapy taste, and may release all of that absorbed liquid, while you cook them, resulting in smaller, tougher scallops that can not develop a perfectly seared, crispy crust.

The chemical poses particular threats to young children: given their smaller size and the types of foods they consume, they typically take in twice as much acrylamide, per pound of body weight, as adults.

The USDA BANS synthetic chemicals in natural flavors, no matter how small an amount of the natural flavors are used.

Some leading brands of infant formula manufactured and sold in the US have been found to contain traces of the industrial chemical melamine, albeit it at small amounts, news reports suggest.

While the quantity of any particular chemical linked to health and environmental hazards is in most cases very small, those small doses add up daily and exposure to derived health risk increases.

Leaves on Evergreen trees are usually smaller and often have a waxy layer which helps prevent water loss in the winter, they also produce a chemical which stops them from freezing.

Disposable pads contain small amounts of SAP (those little gel crystals that can be found in disposable diapers) as well as chemicals from manufacturing.

The total exposure to BPA is getting quite large when you look at ALL the products in their small lives that may contain this harmful chemical.

Each necklace is beautifully polished to perfection by a 100 % chemical - free process using small pine pieces in a wooden tumbler.

The EPA requires that all tap water meet certain standards, but small amounts of many chemicals are found in tap water.

But the effect was small, and the lead researcher was quick to point out that her team didn't measure BPA levels in particular - and had no way of knowing if any other chemicals were leaching out of the fillings.

The Green Moms asked questions about the safety of the tens of thousands of untested, unregulated chemicals used in personal care products such as shampoos and household cleaners, and the presence of small amounts of probable carcinogens such as 1,4 dioxane and formaldehyde in products such as baby wash.

My son no longer has an allergic reaction... it has pointed me in other directions of cloth reusable items to save money (cloth paper towels, wipes, toilet paper, menstrual pads) I save TONS now and I feel happy knowing its less chemicals, my baby is happy, and I am doing a small bit to help the environment.

A flooded chemical plant in a small town outside of Houston was poised to explode, a spokeswoman for the French company said late yesterday, though the timing and the extent of the danger weren't immediately clear.

A number of state legislators once eager to hold hearings into drinking water contamination by a cancer - causing chemical in the small town of Hoosick Falls now seem loathe to even discuss the matter.

BEMUS POINT - A small portion of Chautauqua Lake will be treated with chemical herbicide starting today in an effort to fight an overabundance of weeds.

According to Schumer (D - N.Y.), the DEA has banned only 20 of the 300 identified synthetic drug chemicals, barely making a dent in the sale of synthetic marijuana and other hazardous drug - like products commonly found online and in New York City bodegas, gas stations and small stores.

Cuomo pushed a package of water quality measures last year, culminating in a budget appropriation of $ 2.5 billion for water infrastructure, new testing requirements for smaller water systems like the one serving Hoosick Falls and state authority to set new limits for toxic chemicals like the one found in the Rensselaer County village.

Since neighbors living in the small Rensselaer County village learned their water was contaminated with the man - made chemical PFOA last December, they say they feel helpless.

The small factory, which Saint - Gobain bought in 1999, used the chemical for decades and is the village's largest employer with about 125 workers.

Last November, we took you to the small and rural village of Hoosick Falls, which was grappling with a report of contaminated water after elevated levels of the chemical perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA was detected in the water supply.

The new research, published recently as two separate studies in ACS Central Science and the Journal of the American Chemical Society, demonstrates that a new class of drugs called small molecule RNA inhibitors can successfully target and kill specific types of cancer.

Chemicals such as dyes and pesticides can be especially harmful because they are made up of small and highly soluble organic particles that can not be completely removed during the water treatment process, ultimately ending up in our drinking water.

(Dairy fat also has small amounts of trans - fatty acids, but they are not necessarily the same chemicals as those in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.

Using a small amount of a radioactive substance as a tracer, the scientists focused on the brain's mu - opioid system in which chemicals called endogenous opioids bind to receptors and hinder the spread of pain messages in the brain.

The synthesis method developed in this work opens up possible variations, such as cross-linking or chemical functionalization (adding atoms or small molecules to the carbon nanothread that alter its function).

Biologists now know that the genome sequence holds only a small part of the answer, and that key elements of development and disease are controlled by the epigenome — a set of chemical modifications, not encoded in DNA, that orchestrate how and when genes are expressed.

In addition, a smaller dose of chemicals will kill fungi - infected mosquitoes, good news as one of the chemicals is DDT which persists in the environmenIn addition, a smaller dose of chemicals will kill fungi - infected mosquitoes, good news as one of the chemicals is DDT which persists in the environmenin the environment.

Using samples from five comparatively small lava domes in northern Chile and southeast Bolivia, the Heidelberg researchers and their American colleagues investigated the most recent eruptions whose chemical composition matches the supervolcanic magmas from the region.

Starting just before conception, Jirtle and Waterland fed a test group of mother mice a diet rich in methyl donors, small chemical clusters that can attach to a gene and turn it off.

Suspecting a link between these effects and a chemical on which he had been working — initially synthesized in 1938 and then put aside — the following Monday he ingested an extremely small amount of the chemical: 250 micrograms (0.25 mg).

On the extremely small scale, however, the push and pull of electrons and protons is what controls chemical reactions, including every compound and every process in your body.

The researchers have as such modified microalgae genetically to become small chemical factories with a build in power supply.

In the heyday of antibiotic development in the mid-20th century many different chemical compounds with antibacterial properties were examined, but only a small proportion were selected for development into drugIn the heyday of antibiotic development in the mid-20th century many different chemical compounds with antibacterial properties were examined, but only a small proportion were selected for development into drugin the mid-20th century many different chemical compounds with antibacterial properties were examined, but only a small proportion were selected for development into drugs.

In doing so, they set their firms on course to become two of the largest chemical manufacturers in the world — and eventual partners in a sprawling manufacturing operation in a small New Jersey town that had its own history of piracy: Toms RiveIn doing so, they set their firms on course to become two of the largest chemical manufacturers in the world — and eventual partners in a sprawling manufacturing operation in a small New Jersey town that had its own history of piracy: Toms Rivein the world — and eventual partners in a sprawling manufacturing operation in a small New Jersey town that had its own history of piracy: Toms Rivein a sprawling manufacturing operation in a small New Jersey town that had its own history of piracy: Toms Rivein a small New Jersey town that had its own history of piracy: Toms River.

That hot chemical blast would be like «having a small bomb go off in their stomachs,» he says.

Brown dwarfs can be thought of as failed stars because they are too small to fuse chemical elements in their cores.

In the new, supercontrolled chemical reaction, researchers trapped a single sodium atom in one optical tweezer — a device that snares small particles in a laser beam — and a cesium atom in another tweezeIn the new, supercontrolled chemical reaction, researchers trapped a single sodium atom in one optical tweezer — a device that snares small particles in a laser beam — and a cesium atom in another tweezein one optical tweezer — a device that snares small particles in a laser beam — and a cesium atom in another tweezein a laser beam — and a cesium atom in another tweezein another tweezer.

In further test tube experiments, the researchers treated the immortalized white blood cells with both chemical and genetic blockers, called small interfering RNA (siRNA), designed to render either p70S6K or GRB10 nonfunctional.

Most prior research on the bee — pesticide relationship has only involved feeding the chemicals to small populations in lab settings or observing a few populations in nature for a couple of weeks.