Sentences with phrase «into inorganic»

«It's very important to draw the distinction between burning up carbon, actually using it by transforming it from organic into inorganic matter, and just eating it,» he said.

FIn 2011, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer temporarily suspended use of the poultry drug Roxarsone after FDA reports showing that the arsenical compounds in the drug may break down into inorganic arsenic, a toxin that can produce skin lesions, respiratory irritation, and several types of cancer in exposed persons, Fand may leach into local water supplies or remain in chicken tissue after slaughter.

But mercury levels in your urine reflect the mercury coming from your dental fillings (plus some of the fish - based methylmercury that has broken down into inorganic mercury).

These have provided insight into the roles that marine bacteria, archaea, viruses and eukaryotic microbes have as global primary producers that provide nutrition at the base of the food chain; remineralization (the transformation of organic molecules into inorganic forms); and the deposition of carbon on the sea floor.

For example, the living cell is not analyzable exhaustively into its inorganic parts (molecules, atoms, etc.).

[He] is driven by the desire to transform the organic into the inorganic... as if all living persons were things» (HM 41).

(This because it extrapolates the usage of such terms as «feeling» and «mind» even into the inorganic realm.)

The robber requires justification».14 All life involves the taking of food, and in the taking of food animals break down living things into their inorganic elements.

As microorganisms in the soil break down the organic material into an inorganic soluble form, a slow release of nutrients is provided over a longer period of time.

Not exact matches

This simple inorganic material for no reason at all miraculously rearranged itself (again for no reason) into all the life we see and we ended up with hairless apes that can think and reason, (again for no reason at all).

By this he meant that although inorganic matter was inevitably subject to entropy, (all the structure of peaks and valleys puddling out into a flat line of cosmic death) organic matter, life, had a reverse drive for higher and higher complexities, from the amoebae to the whale brain.

12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.

Jesus takes an inorganic material, water (hydrogen dioxide) and transforms it into an organic thing, fruit juice and fermentation.

The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

Inorganic garbage goes into an adequate pit, and the organic garbage is properly handled.

Inorganic chemist Chong Liu mixes bacteria and inorganics into systems that can generate clean energy better than a leaf.

Chong Liu mixes bacteria and inorganics into systems that can generate clean energy better than a leaf.

Freshwater such as lakes, though, receive various sources of carbon dioxide from decomposing organic and inorganic matter swept into them, which makes it hard for scientists to distinguish between the direct effects of rising atmospheric CO2 and these other elements.

Most commercial solar cells use inorganic semiconductors to convert sunlight into a steady stream of electrons that can serve as a power source.

Nitrospinae bacteria, which use the nitrogen compound nitrite to «fix» inorganic carbon dioxide into sugars and other compounds for food and reproduction, are responsible for 15 to 45 percent of such carbon fixation in the western North Atlantic Ocean, researchers report in the...

In the past couple of years, organic - inorganic hybrid perovskites have been solution - processed into thin films or bulk crystals for photovoltaic devices that have reached a 20 - percent power conversion efficiency.

They tracked the flows of organic and inorganic carbon into and out of coastal waters.

When inorganic mercury (whether from industry or nature) gets into wet soil or a waterway, sulfate - reducing bacteria begin incorporating it into an organic and far more absorbable compound called methylmercury.

So why isn't the inorganic mercury — like that belched from power plants — getting converted into the organic forms that accumulate in fish?

Although Melander and his colleagues at N.C. State and the University of Colorado at Boulder work with an inorganic substance (gold) and can not alter the shape of the particles they work with, Melander says that DeSimone's work «shows insight into particle delivery that most people wouldn't have predicted.

In freshwater lakes and wetlands, inorganic mercury is thought to be turned into methylmercury by sulfate - reducing anaerobic bacteria.

Microscopic globules of graphite in the rock, documented in 1999 by geologist Minik Rosing at the University of Copenhagen, are unusually low in a heavy carbon isotope that gets excluded when inorganic carbon is converted into living material.

He has excelled in three disparate areas of inorganic chemistry; modern f - element chemistry, energy production and storage, and advances in conversion of biologically derived carbohydrates into chemical feedstocks and fuels.

They thought it was a protein that functions on the plasma membrane to transport inorganic phosphate into a neuron.

We have seen piezoelectric transistors incorporated into synthetic skins making them sensitive enough to read fingerprints, other approaches that use multipurpose sensors to detect temperature and humidity in addition to pressure, and others that use pressure - sensitive materials made from inorganic semiconductors to only use a small amounts of power.

Susan Hanson of Inorganic, Isotope and Actinide Chemistry (C - IIAC), Ruilian Wu and Louis «Pete» Silks of Bioenergy and Environmental Science (B - 8) have developed a significant advance in catalysis science that furthers the important goal of breaking down biomass into high - value commodity chemicals.

One of the strategies of CCS is to directly inject a high dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) concentration (or high partial pressure of carbon dioxide, pCO2) solution into the ocean.

«At that stage, we had to decide whether we would continue in the field of inorganic photochemistry, or be more adventurous and jump into a field we didn't know so well,» Sauvage said.

Angela Belcher combines chemistry, molecular biology and electrical engineering to understand how living things make molecular - scale materials and incorporate their tricks into new organic - inorganic hybrid technologies.

While carcinogenic nonstick cookware is coated with chemicals that can leach into your food, Xtrema has been created with inorganic materials straight from the earth's crust.

Generally, agricultural crops convert inorganic forms selenium into organic forms (seleno - methionine in particular) that can be much more easily absorbed nutritionally.

What can we do to stop free radical damage as much as possible considering the amount of pollution and inorganic chemicals that we come into contact with in our modern lives?

It is divided into two groups, organic and inorganic arsenic, with inorganic arsenic being more toxic.

IntraKID uses intraCELL V Technology to convert inorganic nutrients and elements into carbon - bond organic nutrients for maximum intra-cellular absorption.

Hardening of the arteries and calcification of blood vessels starts on the day you start taking inorganic chemicals and minerals from tap water into our bodies.

When chicken meat is cooked, levels of the arsenic - containing drug go down, and levels of carcinogenic arsenic go up, suggesting that the drug «may degrade into [the cancer - causing inorganic arsenic] species during cooking.»

Arsenic - containing drugs intentionally added to poultry feed to reduce the parasite burden and pinken the meat are apparently converted by cooking into carcinogenic inorganic arsenic compounds.

In contrast, people who do not have healthy gut flora are more prone to candida and other pathogenic bacterial and fungal overgrowth that change inorganic mercury into the more toxic methylated and dimethylated mercury, thus increasing the potential for fat - soluble retention and damage.

IntraMIN utilizes a proprietary carbon - bond technology that converts inorganic, synthetic, inert elements into 100 % organic microcomplexed ™ carbon - based elements and nutrients for peak nutritional benefit.

We support ongoing research into methods to reduce levels of inorganic arsenic in rice.

A second - act twist that contrives to bring him into contact with Albert in order to flesh out both of their characters unfortunately feels wildly inorganic and borrowed from the thriller genre, though Patric recovers in some late scenes, as he becomes an increasingly anxious sidekick to a determined - for - death Nancy; watch as he joins her in contemplating belly - up fish in a pet store aquarium, or looks on as she, grinning, runs her fingers over sharp garden tools, or helps her select a dress in which to die.

Over billions of years, a toxic stew of inorganic compounds has been transformed by cells into mineral deposits, forests, fish, soil, breathable air and water — the very foundation of our economy and of our healthy existence.

And, chelated minerals are more easily absorbed into the bloodstream than inorganic mineral sources.

It seems to both reflect the balance of the organic versus the inorganic found in her paintings as and to integrate the work into it's very purposeful pictorial / ground relationship.

Focusing on the (dangerous) intimacy of the organic and inorganic bodies — the leaking, the digesting, the resonant — the work grows into systems that take the likeness of a mycorrhiza, the symbiotic body of plant and fungi, and thus resists traditional narratives.