Sentences with phrase «made from seawater»

According to one European report, researchers studied nearly 400 children ages 6 to 10 and found that a nasal spray made from seawater relieved cold symptoms faster than standard cold medications.

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This makes me happy: By creating a small electrical field that removes salts from seawater, chemists have introduced a new method for the desalination of seawater that consumes less energy and is dramatically simpler than conventional techniques.

The researchers believe these same structural elements make wood a superior material for generating clean freshwater from seawater.

Ours is the only group making hydrates from seawater....

It's possible to produce hydrogen to power fuel cells by extracting the gas from seawater, but the electricity required to do it makes the process costly.

Red rock shrimp, which rely on camouflage as they remove parasites from moray eels, doubled the amount of calcium in the cuticle that makes up its exoskeleton when the pH level was reduced, meaning the seawater was more acidic.

They envision zero - carbon power plants that run on fuel made from hydrogen isotopes in seawater and produce less waste than today's nuclear power plants.

As atmospheric CO2 levels increase from burning fossil fuels, this carbon dioxide is soaked up by seawater and makes the oceans more acidic.

By employing a technique they developed that involves collecting methane from roughly ten thousand gallons of seawater per sample, they made a surprising discovery: ancient - sourced methane is indeed being released into the ocean; but very little survives to be emitted to the atmosphere, even at surprisingly shallow depths.

A new look inside 2,000 - year - old concrete — made from volcanic ash, lime (the product of baked limestone), and seawater — has provided new clues to the evolving chemistry and mineral cements that allow ancient harbor structures to withstand the test of time.

It suggests making coastal development more burdensome through more stringent building codes, siting requirements, and forcing real estate title holders to fully disclose insurance risks associated with storm surges or damage from seawater intrusion.

Billions of planktonic organisms, too tiny to be seen with the naked eye, make this valuable service possible: When carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves in seawater, various species convert it to organic carbon and other organic components during photosynthesis.

The Uranium from Seawater program continues to make significant advancements, producing adsorbents with even higher capacities for grabbing uranium.

Sea salt offers salt made from evaporated seawater, which leaves the trace minerals intact.

The mistake many of us make is that the sunscreen will wash off if we go swimming and take that cool shower on the beach, but in reality you are still left with a small film on your body from the sunscreen and you need a body wash to take it off, water and seawater won't just due.

On December 6, a short drive from the canyons of high - rises making up the city - state's turbocapitalist business district, elites and journalists assembled at the Souk Madinat — a beachside network of malls, restaurants, and luxury hotels connected by artificial seawater canals — for the opening night of the 14th Dubai International Film Festival.

They say the beach is pink in color because sand grains made from red coral, reflect sunlight when mixed with seawater.

Look out for the handpainted wooden signs for salt (garam in Bahasa Indonesia) on the side of the road at Kusamba and buy directly from the families that have been making salt from seawater using the same method for hundreds of years.

It looks as though the onboard desalinization systems that take salt out of seawater to make it drinkable, were taking - in radioactive water from the ocean for the crew to drink, cook with and bath - in, before anyone realized there was a massive radiation spill into the ocean.»

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(A point made with a vivid irony by Arthur C. Clarke at the end of one of his «Tales From The White Hart» (paraphrased): «It's quite probable that even now, molecules of the late professor are passing through the very seawater filter that he devised...»)

I was just taking the opportunity to explain a bit more and to also show a picture demonstrating that the US Navy and other labs, including Audi, are already making hydro carbon fuels from seawater and it works, as the demonstration shows.

The increased levels of carbonic acid in the water means there are less carbonate ions available in seawater for making shells, meaning that thousands of species that build shells or skeletons from calcium carbonate are in danger of extinction.

Beck interpretes the latter as the direct influence of seawater temperatures, but the measurements near the floating ice border were just average, not the lowest... Modern measurements give less than 10 ppmv difference over the seas from the coldest oceans to the tropics, including a repeat of the trips that Buch made.

If enough fresh water from melting glaciers flows into the North Atlantic, this would make the seawater less salty and less dense, so that it couldn't sink anymore.

Dominic Michaelis the co-designer of the Energy Island OTEC platform concept, together with Jerome Tomasi have written a paper which compares the costs of using reverse osmosis to make fresh water from seawater with the cost of doing the same with an open cycle OTEC plant.

Plastics from biomass, like some recently developed to dissolve in seawater, are made the same way as petroleum - based plastics, are actually cheaper to manufacture and meet or exceed most performance standards.

The navy is proposing to harvest CO2 from seawater to make jet fuel:

Some of these shells are shielded from direct contact with seawater by a special coating that the animal makes (as is the case in mussels).

And the remarkable changes we've seen so far — the thawed Arctic that makes the Earth look profoundly different from outer space; the planet's seawater turning 30 percent more acidic — are just the beginning.

The US Navy research has calculated the cost of making jet fuel from seawater on board their nuclear powered aircraft carriers.

«Last time, we made the seawater less acidic, like it was 100 years ago, and this time, we added carbon dioxide to the water to make it more acidic, like it could be 100 years from now,» Caldeira explained.

For instance, since easterly winds push water northwards and westerly winds seawater southward, it is not obvious to non experts if a complete reversal of the westerlies blowing from N.America to Europe ought to make the gulf stream flow slower or faster.

Maybe solar technologies will get a lot more efficient and we can use solar thermal or photovoltaics to make lots of hydrogen from seawater.

In fact, certain of TEPCO's actions in the aftermath of the explosions have been confused and, some might opine, lacking discipline of purpose to the extent that expedient decisions have been made without proper forethought and judiciousness to avoid knock - on consequences: for example, the injection of seawater may have resulted in salt deposits sufficient to foul cooling flows in the lower regions of the RPV [reactor pressure vessel]; the liberation of hydrogen from seawater is more rampant than from freshwater and radiolysis of oxygen from the cooling water could provide stoichiometric conditions and ignition with hydrogen in the absence of air in the containments; and the latest and most recent announcement to deploy a nitrogen purge to the Unit 1 reactor seems yet another ill - explained and unjustified desperate measure».