Sentences with phrase «more chlorine»

In addition to drinking water, it is very important to filter your shower water, since our bodies absorb more chlorine in a 10 - minute shower than if we were to drink a gallon of the same water.

Unfortunately, the human body absorbs far more chlorine and other chemicals from swimming and showering than from drinking or hand washing.

It may seem counterintuitive, but showering in chlorinated water can lead to more chlorine absorption than drinking chlorinated water.

That's because nitrogen and chlorine compounds counteract each other's effects on ozone: the more chlorine there is, the less destructive nitrogen is, and vice versa.

Not exact matches

A U.S. official familiar with the military planning said there could be more air strikes if the intelligence indicates Assad had not stopped making, importing, storing or using chemical weapons, including chlorine.

The company is focusing more resources on higher - value specialty materials products like semiconductors for cell phones and moving away from the lower - margin chlorine business.

«This is just the latest in a series of the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime, notwithstanding their use on more than 50 occasions of chlorine bombs and cluster bombs and other types of weapons that are intended to maim and kill in the most horrific ways.

When the compound sodium chloride is formed, it is not that something entirely new is added to sodium and chlorine atoms, but rather we now know something more about the nature of sodium and chlorine atoms then we did before.

FEEDING YOUR SOURDOUGH STARTER 1 ounce sourdough starter 1 ounce unbleached flour or whole wheat flour (preferably freshly ground or sprouted flour) 1/2 cup water (filtered for chlorine and fluoride, room temperature)(If you need more starter, for example, if you are doing bulk baking and freezing your bread, you can increase these amounts)

The smell of chlorine and warm water and the hollow sound of kicking and pulling: they had been natural parts of my life from the age of 11 to 22, but I had not been aware of them then, no more than I am now of the stench and clangor of the commuter train.

Earth's Best Chlorine - Free Diapers have been used and loved by parents who want to live a more natural lifestyle for years.

In the summer months the boys spend so much time at the pool that their eyes tend to adapt to the chlorine water but in the winter my boy's eyes seem to be more sensitive.

Diaper services are also an eco friendly diaper alternative to home laundering; while most parents find this service more expensive than the costs of buying and laundering their own cloth diapers, diaper services use less water and energy per diaper, and most use green detergents such as oxygen bleach rather than chlorine bleach.

Hydrogen peroxide breaks down into water and oxygen and is a more environmentally safe alternative to chlorine bleach.

What's more, they're always phalate - free, latex - free and free of perfumes, chlorine, and lotions.

However, this concentration of chlorine bleach will not completely disinfect... MORE the diapers by killing all bacteria.

During the summer months, your hair is battered even more when it absorbs chlorine and other chemicals from your pool.

A pound of dioxin from chlorine bleaching in a pulp mill is far more dangerous than a pound of sulfur dioxide from a coal - burning power plant that runs a washing machine.

Chlorine - Free disposables do cost more in the long - run than conventional alternatives, but the less chemicals you expose your baby to, the better.

While old - fashioned plastic disposables are a definite no - no, it turns out that washing, bleaching and drying cloth diapers several times may actually be more harmful to the environment than swaddling your baby's booty in modern, biodegradable, chlorine - free disposables.

The raw materials required to keep one baby in disposable diapers for a year include more than 136 kg of wood, 23 kg of petroleum and 9 kg of chlorine.

This was more gentle and cleaned just as effectively as the chlorine stripping shampoo, but with fewer harsh chemicals.

Today, parents have a lot more choices when it comes to chlorine free disposables.

Because they are chlorine, dye and latex free, these diapers are not only less likely to irritate your baby's skin; they are less harmful to our soil and thus a more sustainable choice for on - the - go eco-conscious moms everywhere.

Thus, I've resorted to Seventh Generation's Chlorine - Free Diapers, as it is too late in the game (I don't plan to have any more children) to invest in gDiapers.

Well, I've got to say that I just couldn't stand the idea of paying so much more for chlorine - free diapers.

At least he responded, Hillary would've scolded them while they were preparing more barrel bombs with chlorine.

It gets rid of most chlorine, cysts, rust, corrosion, sediment, dirt, and more.

This product also comes with a carry bag, thermal ground bag, a floating chlorine dispenser, and much more.

Although chlorine levels are falling, thanks to agreements that banned chlorofluorocarbons, levels of bromine — which is 45 times more effective at zapping ozone — are still rising, says atmospheric chemist Dale Hurst of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.

But unlike pollutants that break down quickly, such as the sulfur compounds that cause acid rain, atmospheric chlorine can persist for more than 50 years.

Chlorine was first used in drinking water to reduce waterborne infectious diseases in Jersey City, New Jersey more than a century ago.

As researchers and officials have learned more about water disinfection, the use of chlorine in treatment plants has been reduced.

They further found that this decline matched the model's predictions, and that more than half the shrinkage was due solely to the reduction in atmospheric chlorine.

Certain waterborne viruses, such as enteric viruses and hepatitis A, may be even more tolerant to chlorine disinfection than some bacterial species.

Although adding small amounts of chlorine to drinking water is considered safe by the EPA, healthier and more environmentally sound alternatives exist

A Seattle suburb was making progress cleansing its E. coli - contaminated water supply through system - wide flushes and chlorine injections, a task made more urgent after the potentially deadly bacteria sickened a child, officials said on Tuesday.

But other water sources require more than UV radiation and chlorine to make them potable.

The Big Apple wants to use the sun's power to provide clean drinking water for its nine million residents without adding more of the potentially harmful chlorine it uses as a disinfectant.

However, the scientists note, for items with a more neutral pH, such as melon and cucumber slices, phage disinfection outperforms such commercially important sanitizers as chlorine.

One study in the Journal conducted by researchers at the CDC finds that even relatively modest improvements — such as providing more latrines and community water pipes and disinfecting water with chlorine — could over the next two decades prevent up to 78,567 cases of cholera.

Even more disturbing, follow - up studies by Brandl's team at their Agricultural Research Service lab in Albany, Calif., demonstrated that Tetrahymena - packaged germs are especially resistant to chlorine, normally a good agent for killing waterborne germs.

This is all motivated by trying to make hydrogen peroxide more cheaply so it can be manufactured more easily, so we can use it in place of chlorine.

Sucralose, for instance, fits more snugly in the receptor than sucrose, partly because its chlorine atoms carry a stronger charge than the oxygen atoms they replaced.

But when the firefighters in self - contained suits got close and sent camera images to the haz - mat trailer where Kassner and others waited, «we saw the one - ton cylinder and knew right away it was more than likely liquid chlorine that had been under pressure.

«Chlorine releases in fixed facilities resulted in victims and evacuations in more industry categories than any other substance,» says a 2004 study by researchers from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

More than a year later, the ghost of a chlorine cloud lingers like a vivid nightmare at Tulare Iron and Metal Inc., located in the heart of California's Central Valley.

The worst chlorine gas accident in the country occurred in 2005, when 18 freight train cars derailed and released 120,000 pounds of chlorine gas in the mill town of Graniteville, S.C. Nine people were killed and at least 1,400 people were exposed, resulting in more than 550 people treated at hospitals, including some with serious lung injuries.

Accidents involving chlorine «were more likely to result in events with victims, evacuations and decontaminations when compared with non-chlorine events,» according to another study by the same federal agency published in 2002.

CFCs are inert near the surface, but once they drift more than 10 kilometers high into the stratosphere, ultraviolet light splits them apart to release atoms of chlorine.