Sentences with phrase «millions of organic compounds»

Analysis indicates that the rock contains millions of organic compounds, including amino acids that could not have come from terrestrial contamination.

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Globally, over 220 million people suffer from food allergies and most countries report an increase in incidence.26 It is predicted that by 2050 the number of patients affected by allergic diseases in Australia will increase by 70 % to 7.7 million.27 By 2021, the markets for naturally healthy (US$ 291 billion), food intolerance (US$ 42 billion) and organic products (US$ 45 billion) are expected to have grown at up to 4.5 % compound annual growth rate (CAGR).28

The goal of this $ 2.5 million machine, the most ambitious ever sent to Mars, is geological: to analyse sediments that could have preserved organic compounds or other evidence of ancient microbes, if these were ever there.

«Hydroboration gave organic chemists a procedure to make millions of compounds that were more difficult to make otherwise,» Ramachandran said.

According to the latest projections, terrestrial vegetation emits several million tons of extremely low - volatility organic compounds (ELVOCs) per year to the atmosphere.

Another recent video by Clean Air Task Force is aimed at policy makers, and highlights the industry's release of 9 million tons of invisible pollutants every year, including footage of methane and volatile organic compounds shown escaping from a hydrocarbon storage tank.

# 7: S.E. Johnson, Racine, WI — «By using Greenlist, S.C. Johnson eliminated 1.8 million pounds of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from Windex and four million pounds of polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) from Saran Wrap, which is now PVDC - free.»

You can think of dogs as having two noses — the 300 million olfactory receptors and their Jacobson's organ — and this Synaptic Smelling System (my phrase, trademark pending) allows trained dogs to detect odors called volatile organic compounds.