Sentences with phrase «millions of chemical processes»

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The process of fracking involves vertical and horizontal drilling, often for more than 10,000 feet below the surface, followed by the injection of millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand at high pressures.

Drug discovery is a daunting process that requires chemists to sift through millions of chemicals to find a single hit.

But she envisions using the chemical in some kind of industrial process — not simply «millions of worms thrown on top of the plastic.»

By contrast, in the tube worm millions of symbiotic bacteria that dwell within the its large plumes grab hydrogen sulfide and other noxious chemicals that seep from the vents and convert them into food and energy for their host, a process called chemosynthesis.

ASU astronomers will join with geophysicists and geochemists in a $ 6.1 million grant to ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration that will try to explore how to tell whether chemical signs of life on distant planets arose from geological processes or biological ones.

Plants are major contributors to the chemical weathering of continental rocks, a key process in the carbon cycle that regulates Earth's atmosphere and climate over millions of years.

Today, photosynthesis is considered «the most important chemical reaction on earth», providing food for humans and animals, releasing oxygen for them to breathe — and millions of years later, this process provides fossil fuel in the form of oil, coal and natural gas, as Michel likes to point out.

There is a large, well known chemical company that was once under contract with the U S Department of Energy that insisted the best way to process millions of gallons of very high level radioactive waste was to add a complex organic molecule to million gallon underground waste tanks.

These include the TDA Research Inc. chemical absorbent - based air separation process for low - cost oxygen to be used in IGCC power plants, and a grant, of around $ 2 million, to Ohio State University for developing a chemical looping gasification technology.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a drilling process that injects millions of gallons of water, sand and undisclosed chemicals at high pressure into horizontal wells to crack...

The process can use millions of gallons of water per extraction well and is known to leak chemicals into surrounding aquifers.

Consider that the fuels we depend on every day for travel and commerce, as well as the chemical components that make up countless consumer products, result from the innovations and advanced technologies that America's refiners apply every day in the processing of millions of barrels of crude oil.

During the fracking process, millions of gallons of fracking fluid — a mixture of water, sand and toxic chemicals — are injected into the ground to break up the shale and release natural gas.

The process of drilling for oil and gas involves high - pressure injections of millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals — including highly toxic substances, such as benzene and lead — into the well.