Sentences with phrase «like inorganic»

«The environmental community in the 1980s went crazy pressuring the donor countries and the big foundations not to support ideas like inorganic fertilizers for Africa,» says David Seckler, the director of the International Irrigation Management Institute.

This is what it's like to eat foods of a lesser quality like inorganic or foods that you're allergic or intolerant to.

Not exact matches

Though a biological theory like evolution, Abiogenesis is a completely separate theory based on connections discovered between organic and inorganic chemistry, protiens and DNA.

Just so, on the inorganic level, every element in the periodic scale has its special characteristics, and some, like the radioactive substances, have qualities of far - reaching significance in certain respects.

Chemical Contaminant Testing: These include a variety of substances, including organic contaminants like fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and animal tissues; and inorganic contaminants like antimony, arsenic, asbestos, barium and cadmium.

Instead of using sulfuric acid and inorganic bleach to soften and dye the agar like some commercial manufacturers, the Eden brand simply boils and air dries it.

«Inorganic antimicrobials like silver and zinc are widely viewed as the safest and most natural method of controlling bacterial growth on surfaces,» he says.

The stuff you might dig out of your garden is, like his approach to artificial photosynthesis, «inorganic materials plus biological stuff,» he says.

The PLMF method works by creating «fingerprints» from the structure of the crystals that comprise the smallest units of inorganic materials like ceramics, metals and metal alloys.

It's one of the first processes to use simple techniques like gravity separation to cleanly lift organic resins from inorganic fibreglass.

«To create these structures, we used nonlinear bottlebrush - like block copolymers as tiny reactors to template the growth of an exciting variety of inorganic nanorods.»

«We see our catalyst as an inorganic material acting like a plant.

Or it could have been inorganic compounds like carbonates, much like the baking soda in your kitchen cabinet.

A contender for the redesign is MXene, a two - dimensional inorganic compound that has the conductivity of a transition metal and the water - loving nature of alcohols like propanol.

«What we have shown is that nanoparticles of inorganic materials, just like the organic materials like early amino acids, can not only self - assemble, but can do so in a way that exhibits chirality,» said Nicholas Kotov, the Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Engineering and a professor of chemical engineering, materials science and engineering and molecular science and engineering at U-M.

«If you're a microbe, inorganic nutrients are like fruits and meats and all the tasty stuff that you reach for immediately.

Like in Transcendence, sufficiently advanced machines may recognize the benefits or their inorganic circuitry.

Unlike conventional inorganic metals in which electrons zip through a crystalline lattice, in organics electrons must hop from one molecule to another, like pails of water being passed by a bucket brigade.

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

For a man (and a robot family) on a stated mission not to creep people out, Hanson — an unashamed sci - fi fan — and his inorganic brood sure do look like they're trying pretty hard to creep people out.

Therefore, as long as the overall composition of other Earth - like planets are the similar to ours, we would expect them to sport a carbon cycle (either organic or inorganic), also providing a stable climate for them — as long as the planets remain within the temperature range where the carbon cycle can work.

Sari's research focuses on microbes that control the carbon cycle in habitats where organisms can not fix enough carbon from inorganic sources like carbon dioxide to sustain their food webs.

«Inorganic aerosols, like sulfates, nitrates, and ammonium, are well - represented in climate models.

Along with Dr. Ron Zuckermann, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, De Yoreo developed protein - like materials that affect inorganic mineralization, which is of interest for carbon sequestration.

Biologists were surprised to discover that the ecosystems found on the ocean floor along these mid-ocean ridges, consisting of complex organisms like tube worms, clams, and crabs, were dependent for their food on thermophilic chemosynthetic bacteria, which produced organic compounds using the oxidation of inorganic molecules as an energy source, instead of sunlight.

His other topics of research concern the field of supramolecular chemistry, crystal engineering and fabrication of hybrid organic — inorganic functional materials like coordination polymers based on organometallic nodes or open metal — organic frameworks with controllable size and morphology with potential applications in storage and separation of gases and small organic molecules.

Some industries (like those connected to mining, coal, wood preservation, and pesticides) pollute the environment with inorganic arsenic.

Re Ryan Drum, seaweed, especially kelp, can have a lot of contaminants, including bromine and heavy metals, so though it is a fine food in low doses I would get iodine from inorganic supplements like potassium iodide.

But — should something like eliminating inorganic arsenic in rice be treated with equal urgency as eliminating animal products?

just like you can't eat dirt, your body has trouble digesting inorganic minerals.

Like with other bad (or inorganic) calcium dissolvers (MSM, fulvic acid and zeolites), drinking lots of beet juice may result in strong detox symptoms.

Like lead, mercury and other metals, arsenic is toxic when it comes from an inorganic source.

Don't confuse the inorganic nitrites and resulting nitrates from beets with the nitrates found in cured and processed meats like bacon and cold cuts.

All kinds of stuff like cyanide and arsenic, so don't be surprised at what inorganic metals and minerals are in pink salt.

After all, the mass - produced book via the five century - old printing press, like all forms of organic and inorganic life, fall prey to the fatal law.

Biological residue is defined as any substance, including metabolites, remaining in poultry at the time of slaughter or in any of its tissues after slaughter, as the result of treatment or exposure of the live poultry to a pesticide, organic compound, metallic or inorganic compound, hormone, hormone - like substance, growth promoter, antibiotic, anthelmintic, tranquilizer, or other agent that leaves a residue (9 CFR 381.1).»

These echoes between works (the cleansing bed in DIS's installation and Olga Balema's mattress - like plastic bags filled with water and decaying organic and inorganic materials) created the kinds of metaphors and associational logic for which poetry is famous.

They all exist in a space neither fully organic nor inorganic, like abstraction finding its way between the human image and material object.

«The «blood and guts» of horror movies provides for their «organic needs,» while the «cold steel» of Sci - fi provides for their «inorganic needs,»» wrote Robert Smithson of his generation's fixation on movies, «Artists that like horror tend toward the emotive, while artists who like sci - fic tend toward the perceptive.»

The exhibition gives an undeniable archeological feel, with fresh earth covering the entire floor and curious combinations of organic, inorganic and ceramic objects laying througout, each feeling like a discovery with its own story attached.

Another thing I like about quantum mechanics is that the distinction between what is organic and inorganic breaks down.

The growth medium is an aqueous solution or heterogeneous mixture including dissolved gases, organic and inorganic compounds, particulate matter, living organisms (e.g., algae), and the like.

Also, I kinda missed much discussion of the type of inorganic matter (I like Dean's stuff in Minnesota better).