Sentences with phrase «iridium found»

A study commissioned by Iridium found that between the service's proposed start in 2017 and 2030, the technology should save airlines about $ 7 billion on fuel and cut carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions by 35 million tonnes.

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Founded in 2008, Coherent Navigation was a small firm that focused on creating commercial navigation services based on partnerships with companies like Boeing and Iridium, the satellite network operator, according to a description on the LinkedIn page of Paul Lego, the company's former chief executive.

Its creation coincides with the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and it contains high levels of iridium, an element found in asteroids.On top of the food chain, they had few....

To see if these deaths were linked with the KT extinction, the researchers tested for iridium, the rare metal found throughout the world near the KT boundary, thought by most to be evidence of a cosmic impact.

Geologists found the evidence for the Mesozoic's demise in a thin layer of iridium, a rare metal found on asteroids, isolated in the rock record at El Kef, Tunisia.

But until researchers find a simple, reproducible means, we're stuck with a hunk of platinum and iridium that is ever - so - slowly getting lighter.

He and his colleagues have found layers of rock from the end of the Triassic that are loaded with iridium, a marker rare on Earth but common in asteroids, as well as spores of ferns, which would have quickly sprouted after an asteroid impact wiped out the world's forests.

In 1980, however, Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez and others called attention to a thin layer of iridium — possible material from an asteroid — found all over the world in rocks from the time of the dinosaur extinctions.

To make a truly large - scale impact, the company may need to find cheaper electrode catalysts than silver and iridium oxide, says Haotian Wang, a chemist at Harvard University.

The Alvarez team discovered the element iridium, at levels found only in asteroids, in Italian clay that dated to the ancient divide.

Previously, scientists thought that any asteroid or comet collision would leave strong evidence of the element iridium, the signal found in the sedimentary layer from the time of the dinosaur extinction.

Unfortunately, the same process caused us to lose most of the gold and especially platinum, palladium and iridium — which are all siderophiles and dissolve in molten iron, most of which is now found at Earth's core.

They additionally found the reason why their battery works: the spacing of the iridium catalyst nanoparticles in the reduced graphene oxide (rGO) cathode favor the production of lithium superoxide (LiO2) and inhibit peroxide (Li2O2) generation.