Sentences with phrase «nitogen oxide gases»

The Golden State is at the vanguard in the United States in reducing auto emissions of nitrogen oxide gases, which help produce toxic smog and acid rain.

FIELD FUMES California's agricultural regions are responsible for between 20 and 51 percent of the total emissions of nitrogen oxide gases in the state, new research finds.

The astronomers suggest that powerful winds on Kepler - 13Ab carry the titanium oxide gas around, condensing it into crystalline flakes that form clouds.

nitrous oxide A gas composed of two atoms of nitrogen bound to one of oxygen.

Strolling through East London three years ago, Gilbert & George stumbled on empty nitrous - oxide gas containers that young partygoers had used for a euphoric high.

While Methane and Nitrous oxide gases are more short lived, Co2 is long lived in the atmosphere, so stopping some of the gases will not eliminate the long term forcing on the oceanic thermal absorption.

Then large volumes of nitrogen will be released in to atmosphere, where natrual processes such as ligtening will convert nitrogen in to nitogen oxide gases, an almost 200 + times more poten greenhouse gas than CO2.

The key air pollution - causing contaminant is sulphur, which creates oxide gases and particles, both of which are harmful to human health.

Automobile exhaust and industrial emissions release a family of nitrogen oxide gases (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC), by - products of burning gasoline and coal.

CO2 from ships makes up roughly 3 percent of all human - emitted CO2 and almost 30 percent of smog - forming nitrogen oxide gases.

While their design started out as a nitrous oxide thruster for spacecraft, they figured out how it could also be used at wastewater treatment plants to turn decompose nitrous oxide gas into nothing but hot air.

Not exact matches

Switching from coal to natural gas would reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent and nitrogen oxide emissions by more than 60 percent.

Some of the nitrogen the crops do not absorb is converted into nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

... A number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity... Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain.

This is a matter of much concern as nitrogen oxides are greenhouse gases.

Worldwide, livestock generate between 14.5 and 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions — mainly methane and nitrous oxide, which are more harmful to the climate than even CO2.

Reduces greenhouse gases, especially nitrous oxide, as no chemical nitrogen fertilizers are used and nutrient losses are minimized

The two main gases, methane and nitrous oxide, are considered to be more harmful than CO2 (methane is 21 times more powerful than CO2 and nitrous oxide is 310 times more powerful than CO2) so the data suggests that this is causing a highly dangerous situation for ourselves and, more importantly, for future generations.

Methane also remains in the atmosphere for 9 to 15 years; nitrous oxide remains in the atmosphere for 114 years, on average, and is 296 times more potent than CO2 — the gases released today will continue to be active in degrading the climate decades from now.

Jack Grealish has been at the centre of controversy off the field having been pictured inhaling nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas.

Nitrous oxide is a tasteless, odorless gas which can be used to provide some degree of pain relief during labor, delivery or postpartum (such as suturing).

Nitrous oxide is a tasteless, odorless gas which can be used to provide some degree of pain relief during labor, delivery, or postpartum procedures (such as suturing).

It has recently been announced that laughing gas (aka Nitrous Oxide) as a pain analgesia during labor is now available to you in some DC, Maryland, and Virginia hospitals.

The only thing that I had for my previous labors was nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and some remifentanyl (pain killer) in my IV.

But David Asante says the Alliance has testimony of an eye witness who is also a scientist claiming the police used nitrous oxide or sleeping gas on the protesters.

It then recommended that it refrain from banning the even more harmless drug nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas.

What's more, anyone ordering laughing gas can simply claim they are making whipped cream, which nitrous oxide is also used for.

That is, oxygen tends to fall out of the air as rust and other mineral oxides rather than linger as a gas, so when it exists in abundance, something — photosynthetic life, in Earth's case — must be constantly replenishing it.

The United States released 6,511 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent in 2016 when CO2, methane, nitrogen oxides and fluorinated gases are added together.

In addition to the isotope concentration, the air bubbles trapped in the ice cores allow for measurement of the atmospheric concentrations of trace gases, including greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

A single carbon nanotube about two billionths of a meter wide can compete with the best materials of today at detecting ammonia and nitrous oxide, a gas often found in automobile emissions.

Drivers of Climate Change Atmospheric concentrations of many gases — primarily carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and halocarbons (gases once used widely as refrigerants and spray propellants)-- have increased because of human activities.

Twenty years ago, they discovered that the gas nitric oxide (NO) is a major player in the complex signaling network that lets our neurons coordinate activity with one another.

TRACE amounts of laughing gas, or nitrous oxide, in Mars's atmosphere could aid the search for life on the Red Planet.

View a slide show of the world's first carbon capture and storage facility in operation The small stream of flue gas travels to the carbon - capture unit through plastic pipes reinforced with fiberglass and is cooled to between — 1 and 21 degrees Celsius from the 55 - degree C temperature at which it emerges from the other environmental technology add - ons that strip out the fly ash, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.

Secondly, nitrogen can be converted to nitrous oxide, which is an extremely potent greenhouse gas.

«Denitrification produces carbon dioxide and both produces and consumes nitrous oxide, which is another major greenhouse gas and an ozone depletion agent,» he said.

Many power plants already employ such ammonia in selective catalytic reduction units to strip nitrogen oxides out of the flue gas.

In a paper released for discussion in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Crutzen calculated that 3 to 5 percent of the nitrogen in the fertilizers used to raise crops for biofuels could end up in the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, a potent, long - lived greenhouse gas.

«If we want to stabilize the climate system, we need to focus on greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane.

Jacobson said the sum of warming caused by all anthropogenic greenhouse gases — CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons and some others — plus the warming caused by black and brown carbon will yield a planetary warming effect of 2 degrees Celsius over the 20 - year period simulated by the computer.

A group of projects that reduce emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O)-- a particularly potent greenhouse gas — from fertiliser production plants in China.

Irradiated fuel from Nuclear Electric's advanced gas cooled reactors was expected to be processed at Sellafield, in the thermal oxide reprocessing plant, which still needs government approval to begin operating.

Research has indicated that no - till methods could reduce emissions of nitrous oxide — a gas with 300 times the greenhouse potency of carbon dioxide — by 57 percent (ClimateWire, Jan. 6).

And a Nobel - prize winning chemist has publicized his findings that biofuels made from nitrogen - thirsty plants (like corn and canola) actually produce a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions, because they release nitrous oxide during their production.

Other greenhouse gases include, but are not limited to, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and chlorofluorocarbons.

Neufeld's group recently found that the enzyme nitric oxide synthase 2 (NOS - 2), which produces toxic levels of the gas nitric oxide, is active in the eyes of rats that have their eyes» drainage channels blocked, causing an artificial form of glaucoma.

The pollutant that has declined the least is ozone, a hard - to - control noxious gas formed when nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds react with sunlight.

The pollution is generally a mixture of gases — such as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — and particulate matter, microscopic solids or droplets that can be inhaled into the lungs.

In laser deposition, researchers vaporize a polyethylene oxide with focused lasers, allowing the resulting gas to deposit on a silicon wafer.