Sentences with phrase «mixture of chemicals»

Recent experiments show that cotton fabric coated with the right mixture of chemicals can dissolve stains and remove odors after only a few hours in the sun.

Many of today's skin care products, soaps, shampoos, and cosmetics are nothing more than a toxic mixture of chemicals which cause more skin problems than they solve.

«Urban stormwater runoff carries a complex mixture of chemicals into fish habitats,» said McIntyre, who is based at the WSU Research and Extension Center in Puyallup, Wash. «We have seen that stormwater runoff can kill adult coho salmon in urban creeks, and we know that it can cause defects in the hearts of developing fish.»

-- Many of today's skin care products and cosmetics are nothing more than a toxic mixture of chemicals which cause more skin problems than they solve.

In the vast majority of cases that have been studied, mixtures of chemicals change in composition, as time proceeds, in such a way as to approach a condition of chemical equilibrium.

The results demonstrate that some types of disposable diapers emit mixtures of chemicals that are toxic to the respiratory tract.

But to the brain, smells are simply mixtures of chemicals detected in the nose that need to be coded into a signal in order to get processed.

When Zosel passed a stream of supercritical carbon dioxide through wet coffee beans he was already familiar with the way chemists used supercritical fluids (SCFs) to purify mixtures of chemicals by dissolving out unwanted components.

Her team placed adult fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas)-- fish commonly used in aquatic toxicity studies — in aquaria containing 0.01 - 0.5 micrograms per litre (0.01 - 0.5 parts per billion) of various mixtures of these chemicals.

The tests contain mixtures of chemicals that encourage some bacteria to grow and discourage others.

But the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) revealed much more than that — hinting at a rich mixture of chemical species in the crater, including carbon monoxide, mercury and possibly silver.

They switch on different genes and release different mixtures of chemical messengers and protective molecules.

They also destroy the matrix resin materials in the composites, creating a messy mixture of chemicals and an additional waste problem.

Studies show that a complex mixture of chemicals leach from plastic food containers when they're heated or exposed to UV light.

Those critics say fracking uses a deadly mixture of chemicals that pollutes the air and water supplies, and makes people sick.

Within each hair is a waiting mixture of chemicals, including histamine, acetylcholine, and formic acid.

Liu and Kitts analyzed the complex mixture of chemical compounds produced during the bean's browning process, called the «Maillard reaction.»

This type of pest killer involves distributing a toxic mixture of chemicals directly onto the skin of the neck and back of the cat or kitten, allowing the toxins to be directly absorbed through the animal's skin and into their system, unlike the collar alternatives that are flea collars safe for cats.

Toxic mixtures of chemicals react to the silver content of the paper, subsequently destroying its intended functionality.

In part because «botanicals are complex mixtures of chemicals,» supplements in this category present «a serious and growing public health problem,» Marcus and a colleague, pharmacologist Arthur Grollman of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2002.

Combine those chemcials with a fungus that typically grows in mattresses, and all of a sudden, your child is breathing a toxic mixture of chemicals every time they sleep on that mattress.

Telescopes instead would do the work and look for a mixture of chemicals in the atmosphere that's close to Earth's.

What philosophers (as distinct from dress - designers and undertakers) mean by «Joanna Brown's body» is precisely the mixture of chemicals and arrangement of limbs thatconstitutes the purposive agent Joanna.

Some were treated with a mixture of the chemicals plus capsaicin, and some were treated with capsaicin only.

The process uses a mixture of chemicals and water to blast through rock and access natural gas underneath.

But environmentalists are opposed to the process, which involves blasting a mixture of chemicals and water under ground in order to access natural gas.

Avella is the sponsor of a measure that would ban the process known as hydrofracking, which uses a mixture of chemicals and water to access natural gas underneath.

Cuomo has acknowledged that fracking — a deep gas - drilling technique that uses a mixture of chemicals and water to fracture rocks and capture the escaped gas — would boost jobs.

The process, which involves blasting a mixture of chemicals and water underground in order to extract gas underneath, is seen as a potential economic boon for the upstate region, but environmentalists fear it could damage public water supplies.

The SGEIS, or Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement, is a review of potential regulations for hydrofracking, a natural gas extraction process that involves blasting a mixture of chemicals and water underground in order to access the gas underneath.

The process uses a mixture of chemicals and water to draw natural gas from the ground.

This suggests that the mixture of these chemicals in house dust is promoting the accumulation of triglycerides and fat cells, the researchers say.

The researchers then cultured these so - called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) in a mixture of chemical factors that triggered their conversion into liver cells, which had the appearance and functional properties of native liver cells.

The team used human embryonic stem cells — which can transform into any cell of the body — and cultured them in a mixture of chemicals to grow human brain cells.

After months of fine - tuning the mixture of these chemicals, the team nailed the critical temperature gap.

The natural gas industry refuses to reveal what is in the mixture of chemicals used to drill for the fossil fuel

«What we're finding are complex mixtures of chemicals that sometimes have similar toxicities,» Jacobs said.

The report identifies many different types of environmental factors, collectively called substances, including chemicals; infectious agents, such as viruses; physical agents, such as X-rays and ultraviolet radiation; mixtures of chemicals; and exposure scenarios in two categories — known to be a human carcinogen and reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.

«Beer is actually an excellent model for the mixture of chemicals we would need to use in a real industrial process, so it shows this technology is one step closer to reality.»

In fact, the toxic mixtures of chemicals we call venoms have a long history as medical treatments.

Vandenberg, Nagel and colleagues point out that their results «suggest that the mammary gland is sensitive to mixtures of chemicals used in UOG production at exposure levels that are environmentally relevant.

When put into a mixture of chemicals and heated to just 90 °C, the nanorods grew all over the surface of the sheet.

Here, the fabric or paper is treated with a mixture of chemicals that react upon exposure to ultraviolet light to form an insoluble blue compound.

It is a mixture of chemicals and sugar (or artificial sugar) that deteriorate the health and beauty of the body, inside and out.

An HGH supplement, precursor, or secretagogue is not a true form of HGH, and instead a mixture of chemicals and ingredients designed to supposedly boost the body's natural production of HGH.

This fluid is a mixture of chemicals including friction reducers, biocides to prevent the growth of bacteria that would damage the well piping or clog the fractures, a gel to carry materials into the fractures, and various other substances.

Prepare a mixture of chemicals and medicines necessary to spray on the plants or add to the soil to improve quality of yield