Sentences with phrase «into cadmium»

The bacteria make these feedstuffs into cadmium sulfide nanoparticles, which soon cover the surface of the bacteria.

«We have shown that the amount of selenium incorporated into the cadmium - tellurium controls whether the small crystals inside the solar cell form as crystal structure A or crystal structure B,» Poplawsky said.

Not exact matches

Manufactured without PFAS, PFOA, lead, and cadmium, you'll never have to worry about toxic chemicals leaching into your food, even if the pan overheats.

A team of researchers from several Portuguese centres and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) has analysed the presence of mercury, cadmium and lead in the blood of the 121 Griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) in Portugal and Catalonia, and compared the concentration between populations of wild Griffon vultures and the individuals that were admitted, in a weak state — due to malnutrition — and wounded, into rehabilitation centres.

In the course of the case, they requested papers through legal discovery, and that's when they learned that Asarco had released 1,000 tons of lead, 500 tons of zinc, and smaller amounts of cadmium and arsenic into the city's air over the preceding three years, an amount that was vastly greater than anybody in the health department had imagined.

They dissolve spent fuel in liquid cadmium at 480 °C and pour it into an electrolyte of molten sodium, potassium and lithium chlorides.

The work done by Etxeberria consisted of synthesising composite cadmium and selenium nanoparticles, and subsequently, of analysing methods for inserting these nanoparticles into a polymer.

Although the European Union's (E.U.) Restriction on the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) went into effect in 2006 — effectively banning new electronics (pdf) that contain certain levels of lead, cadmium, mercury and other toxic chemicals — lead has been difficult to phase out due its versatility.

While some of today's solar cells use a blend of cadmium and tellurium to convert light into electricity, adding the optimum amount of selenium in the right places could help increase efficiency from the current mark of about 22 percent to levels approaching the theoretical limit of 30 - 33 percent.

Three - quarters of wastewater in Peru is dumped untreated into rivers, lakes and the Pacific Ocean, and the Health Ministry has identified dozens of rivers polluted with lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury and other metals from mining operations.

«The zinc pumps not only transport zinc but also cadmium into the seed and unfortunately cadmium is a toxic heavy metal.

This seasonal new tech surge will no doubt please gadget lovers, but it will also result in a heap of old electronic devices being dumped into a waste stream already awash in refuse laden with cadmium, lead, mercury and other toxins.

Cadmium from industrial waste can leach back into soil and water and isn't degraded.

«Once inside the cell, cadmium inserts itself into the cell's metal sensing machinery causing it to malfunction and pump out the wrong metal ions while still bringing in more cadmium.

Published in the journal Nature Communications, this research has shown how cadmium disrupts the transport of the essential metals manganese and zinc into and out of cells.

Heavy metals including cadmium and lead are unusually common in sediments from the South China Sea, hinting that run - off from farms was spilling into the ocean 4000 years ago

Commercial cosmetics often contain heavy metals, like lead, cadmium, arsenic, and others which can penetrate into your body and create havoc.

In addition, while toxicity has occurred from contaminated water getting into the food supply, human exposure to environmental cadmium is primarily the result of the burning of fossil fuels and municipal wastes.

In order to detect whether an excess body burden of lead, cadmium, and other toxic metals is present, a challenge test should be performed with a single dose of a chelating agent such as EDTA or DMPS to see how much of the metal (s) can be pulled into the urine.

When heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium and lead cross into the brain, they can damage the sheaths of nerves and also brain cells.

NAC can also prevent the uptake of cadmium into cells (study, study).

In short, there is concern that waste from the Exide plant in the form of led and cadmium left over from years of battery manufacturing might leach into the groundwater, as other chemicals did in Hinkley, CA.

Here's some doggy food for thought: The Harry Barker Bamboo Dog Bowl is not only made from sustainable substances like bamboo fiber and rice husks, it's lead and cadmium free, so you don't have to worry about chemicals leaching into your canine's food and water.

Surfaces are worked to destruction, making them permeable in places, while the colour palette is dark, mineral or earthy, with a zing of cadmium red, which breaks down into hundreds of hue variations.

In Summer Loft, deep vibrational strokes of cadmium orange, blotches of vermillion and layers of hot pink and yellow washes bleed into one another, portraying a fluidity as evocative as the sweep of a bullfighter's cape.

He had smeared a line of cadmium red light on a strip of masking tape that divided a vertical canvas painted cadmium red deep into two halves, creating a bilaterally symmetrical image of solid color.

The company expects to resume full production by year - end with cadmium - telluride panels that will be able to convert 12.5 percent to 13 percent of the energy in sunlight into electricity.

All these batteries can potentially leak lead, cadmium, nickel hydride and other chemicals into our groundwater and contaminate our soil.

The suit will allege that coal ash ponds at the TVA plant are seeping arsenic, lead, selenium, cadmium and other toxic metals in to the groundwater below the ponds, and into Cane Creek and the Tennessee River.

SF Public Press reports that clean tech firms are beginning to look into how to reuse the rare and potentially toxic material used in solar cell processing, including cadmium, selenium, silicon tetrachloride and sulfur hexafluoride, which is a potent greenhouse gas.

Scientists have helped the M. thermoacetica turn itself into a bionic hybrid, by feeding the bacteria cadmium and the amino acid cysteine, from which a sulfur atom can be harvested.

When plastic, foam and whatever else comes into Agbogbloshie is set alight, it releases a melange of poisons, from greenhouse gases to mercury, cadmium and lead.

For the experiment, biochar made from wheat straw was ground into pellets 2 millimeters in diameter and mixed into soil in Jiangsu province that contained high levels of cadmium.

Harvey, who has an impressive command of technical data, worries that toxic cadmium telluride used in the thin - film panels will escape into the environment, and he isn't soothed by Chevron's assurances that it will spray polymer - based binders on the disturbed soil to keep it from blowing around.