Sentences with phrase «material by gas»

Not exact matches

The group set about their plan by renting office space in Dallas, Texas, where a robust fracking industry regularly requires radioactive materials for gauges needed in their search for gas and oil deposits.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Or, does it see a chance to nail down its Cold War victory by destroying Russia's potential power to be a rival, by turning it into an exporter of oil, gas and other raw materials?

The icy materials in 67P will vaporise, emitting gas and dust in a tail that will trail for thousands of kilometres and be observed by Rosetta.

We would have to recognize that it is an open system sustained by a continuous input of gases from the environing atmosphere and from the burning material, and giving off heat energy into the environment.

Because Nest Bedding uses only organic or certified American - made materials, its products do not produce odors or gasses that are caused by using inferior materials in the manufacturing process.

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

New York and California account for roughly 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S, according to materials provided by Cuomo's office.

Lebanon's new electoral law also allowed generous campaign financing which enabled parties to win votes by offering significant material incentives varying from direct cash (between $ 40 and $ 1000), school tuition fees, gas coupons and healthcare coverage.

Collected materials include (please note, these are estimates, the final numbers are provided by Hazardous Waste Contractor): 13,644 gallons of paint 2800 pounds of Aerosols 660 gallons of flammable liquids 1650 pounds of pesticides 825 gallons of corrosive materials 220 gallons of oxidizers 960 gallons of waste oil 175 gallons of antifreeze Plus mercury, batteries, and gas!

They should also fight global warming by capturing greenhouse gases through carbon - sequestering building materials and living roofs and walls.

But note the arc of material just above the cluster; could that be gas being pushed by the combined winds of the stars in NGC 2100?

Taken with the orbiting Chandra Observatory, it shows the hottest, most violent objects in the galaxy: black holes gobbling down matter, gas heated to millions of degrees by dense, whirling neutron stars, and the high - energy radiation from stars that have exploded, sending out vast amounts of material that slam into surrounding gas, creating shock waves that heat the gas tremendously, generating X-rays.

Since 1950, world population has risen by a factor of 2.7, but our use of materials such as metals and oil has quadrupled, and greenhouse gas emissions are up more than fivefold.

A porous material invented by the Rice lab of chemist James Tour sequesters carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, at ambient temperature with pressure provided by the wellhead and lets it go once the pressure is released.

Though it enables precise atom - by - atom fabrication of nanostructures, the process is very slow because the low density of adsorbed gas molecules in the vacuum environment limits the amount of material available for fabrication.

The Tour lab, with assistance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), produced the patented material that pulls only carbon dioxide molecules from flowing natural gas and polymerizes them while under pressure naturally provided by the well.

However, the second approach yielded results more in line with experimental data for gases adsorbed into carbon materials when equations are amended through simple corrections pertaining to energy levels, rather than by corrections related to the difference in the size of the various molecules involved.

Later, the material was analyzed by gas chromatography - mass spectrometry (GC - MS).

Ten years later, no one knows what was in the cloud of gases released by the combustion of all that jet fuel and building material but science has revealed what was in the dust — cement, steel, gypsum from drywall, building materials, cellulose from paper, synthetic molecules from rugs, glass fibers and human hair from the long decades of the two towers» use, among other items.

The most likely applications use the gas as a raw material for making chemical products, which could also pay off by replacing petrochemicals with something greener.

Hydrogen atoms which diffuse inside the cages only bond weakly to them, so the gas can be recovered simply by heating the material slightly.

Other battery researchers have tried to remedy the issue by developing additives to externally heat the batteries or by using a liquefied gas electrolyte, but these solutions require additional materials that add extra weight.

The concentrated gas is «scrubbed» by sulfur - absorbent materials to remove the compounds that cause acid rain.

The report notes that three business sectors — energy firms, utilities and materials companies — account for 87 percent of scope 1 and 2 emissions, greenhouse gases that are directly emitted by a firm's activities, even though they account for less than 25 percent of all companies on the index.

By studying the gas, dust and structure of the nucleus and organic materials associated with the comet, via both remote and in - situ observations, the Rosetta mission should be a key to unlocking the history and evolution of our solar system, as well as answering questions regarding the origin of Earth's water and perhaps even life.

The X-ray data also indicates that radiation from material surrounding this black hole has consistently surpassed the so - called Eddington limit, defined by a balance between the outward pressure of radiation from the hot gas and the inward pull of the gravity of the black hole.

Through reduced tillage in farming — no - till being the prime example — and systems using cover crops and residue, those are major ways agriculture can reduce the emission of greenhouse gases because carbon dioxide is being taken up by the plant materials and stored in the soil.

The lighter, innermost ring may have been consumed by the sun, leaving behind the ring of metallic material, which had more time to cool into larger bodies that resisted the slowing effect of the gas and dust.

Nevertheless, those modest - size black holes left a big mark by performing a form of stellar birth control: Radiation from the trickle of material falling into the holes heated surrounding clouds of gas to about 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, so hot that the gas could no longer easily coalesce.

The nebula was created by the star, which is losing part of its mass out into the surrounding space, forming a cloud of gas and dust as the material cools.

So bioenergy only reduces greenhouse gases if it results from additional plant growth or in some other way uses carbon that would not otherwise be stored (for example, by using the waste material left after timber harvest that would decompose rapidly anyway).

When the researchers placed the material inside a gas chamber and cranked up the air pressure from one bar (about the atmospheric pressure at sea level) to five bars, the cube's volume increased by about 3 percent.

Perhaps what's different about them, McDonald says, is that the cooling of gas flowing into the center is slowed down by the heating effect of a black hole spewing out material from the center of the cluster.

Black holes whip out superheated gas from their accretion disks — pulled together from material in surrounding space by their massive gravity — at such temperatures that the resulting light can outshine entire galaxies.

According to a summary of Barstow's talk released by the Royal Astronomical Society, the most probable explanation for the missing gas is that the area was swept clear of material by a nearby star that went supernova within the last few million years.

It's actually a cyclical process, which begins by exposing the substrate's surface to one gas - phase chemical, in this case tungsten hexafluoride (WF6), followed by removal of any unreacted material.

A disk of gas and dust drawn in by the black hole pours x-rays and ultraviolet radiation outward, where they strike a cooler layer of material, the torus, making it glow in the infrared.

The knowledge gained from such research could inform the design, selection, and improvement of adsorbent materials and membranes for capturing gases such as radioactive krypton and xenon generated by nuclear power plants.

Such a material is created by stripping a gas's atoms of their electrons, a process called ionization.

Researchers make 2 - D materials by the exfoliation method — peeling a slice of material off a larger bulk material — or by condensing a gas precursor onto a substrate.

A new bio-inspired zeolite catalyst, developed by an international team with researchers from Technische Universität München (TUM), Eindhoven University of Technology and University of Amsterdam, might pave the way to small scale «gas - to - liquid» technologies converting natural gas to fuels and starting materials for the chemical industry.

These features make the material promising for use in protective equipment worn by soldiers, such as gas masks, and for destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons, such as those currently building up in Syria.

Also present in the animals» blood and bile were signs of exposure to carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)-- a family of more than 100 substances generated by the partial burning of oil, gas and other materials.

And by using the ZIMPOL mode of SPHERE, the team could not only peer deeper into the heart of this cloud of gas and dust around the star, but they could also see how the starlight was scattered and polarised by the surrounding material.

As synthesized ZIF - 8 is a highly porous material composed of a number of micro-pores of 0.34 nm and 1.16 nm, hydrogen gas with a kinetic diameter of 0.289 nm can easily penetrate inside the ZIF - 8 membrane, while large molecules (> 0.34 nm) are effectively screened by the MOF filter.

But chemical companies have also long had the technology to convert the primary hydrocarbons in natural gas — methane, ethane, and propane — into alcohols, the liquid starting materials for plastics, fuels, and other commodities made by the train load.

Dense pockets of material in these clouds collapse under their own gravity and grow by accumulating more and more star - forming gas from their parent clouds.

What scientists call naturally occurring radioactive materials — known by the acronym NORM — are common in oil and gas drilling waste, and especially in brine, the dirty water that has been soaking in the shale for centuries.

The research was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences and the EU NEXT - GTL (Innovative Catalytic Technologies & Materials for Next Gas to Liquid Processes) project.