Sentences with phrase «mineral nucleation»

At PNNL, Legg uses atomic force microscopy, statistical mechanics, and thermodynamics to answer difficult questions about mineral nucleation, nanoparticle aggregation, and nanoparticle - environment interactions.

At PNNL, Kerisit researches a wide range of topics relevant to the geochemistry community including the chemistry of mineral - water interfaces, carbon capture and sequestration, the aqueous corrosion of glasses, the mechanisms of mineral nucleation and growth, and the redox properties of natural systems.

Not exact matches

Even as the importance of biological ice nucleation was being recognized by agricultural scientists, it still wasn't embraced by atmospheric scientists, who stuck by the traditional view that soot, or sea salt, or some as - yet - unidentified mineral in dust was seeding ice in clouds.

It's well known that particles in the atmosphere such as mineral dust, pollen, heavy metals and even bacteria can act as seeds for the nucleation of ice crystals.

S15) and suggests a similar nucleation mechanism for these minerals.

He is also turning his attention toward broadening the concept of nonclassical nucleation to other minerals.

Their goal was to read all the vital signs of an earthquake — not just fault motions but also the precise pressures, temperatures, strains, and chemical compositions of minerals in the nucleation zone, along with an analysis of rocks and fluids extracted through the drill hole.

Hoose, C. et al. (2010): A classical - theory - based parameterization of heterogeneous ice nucleation by mineral dust, soot, and biological particles in a global climate model, J. Atmos.

Biological organisms keep a store of mineral components in their cells and have evolved ways to make nucleation happen when and where needed.

... Ice nucleation «onset» conditions for various mineral dust, soot, biological, organic and ammonium sulfate particles are summarized.