Sentences with phrase «of key chemicals»

In an essay last year in Chemical & Engineering News he argued for restricting the purchase of key chemicals.
Each new core has provided a piece of the puzzle, as the researchers measured the concentrations of key chemicals preserved in thousands of years of accumulated ice.
«Part of my job is to collate information on the techniques used to manufacture illicit drugs and to investigate the availability of a number of key chemicals which are essential for their production.
«Catalyst could make production of key chemical more eco-friendly.»
The work, published today (9th January) in Nature Communications, shows that chemical messages from bacteria can change the location of key chemical markers throughout the human genome.
The aromatic teardrop in her vial was extracted from the crust of a white bread loaf a month earlier and is a crucial part of an experiment that could overturn a tightly held belief about the Maillard reaction, one of the key chemical responses that occurs during cooking.
U.S. chemicals industry would incur double damage due to loss of key chemical export markets and reduced export demand for products made with chemicals.

Not exact matches

Australia Minerals and Mining Group has chosen its Meckering aluminous clay deposit as the key supply of feedstock material for its HPA chemicals project, which will be located north of Perth.
April 4 - Shares in U.S. exporters of everything from planes to tractors were volatile on Wednesday after China proposed duties on key U.S. imports including soybeans, planes, cars, beef and chemicals in retaliation to Trump administration tariff plans.
Investigative reporter and blogger Eliot Higgins has talked about how Facebook's haste to censor what might be disturbing or controversial imagery can directly impact our understanding of a developing news story: the site removed several pages and posts from Syrian dissident groups and terrorist factions, but in doing so it effectively deleted a key source of information about chemical weapon attacks by the Syrian government.
• Littlejohn & Co agreed to acquire Cornerstone Chemical Company, a Waggaman, La. - based manufacturer of key intermediate chemicals for high - value industrial and consumer applications, from an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital.
Those alloys, a series of chemicals limited in mineable concentration on Earth, are key to the production of many modern technologies, everything from smart phones to fighter jets.
We experienced favorable trends across many of our key industry verticals, including chemical, manufacturing and energy, supported by an improved macroeconomic environment.»
In the 1980s, a chemicals company became committed to a total quality management program and began to make extensive measurements of employee participation, statistical process control, and key quality indicators.
He was a key member of the Chemical Bank team that designed, built and deployed an integrated customer relationship management / customer profitability reporting platform that allowed Chemical's Private Bank, Middle Marketing Banking and Corporate Bank to garner as much as 75 % market share in key markets and produce substantial business profitability.
Just because someone said some magic words over water does not mean it somehow changed the water... it is still just water... a simple chemical compound with amazing characteristics... one of the reasons it was incorporated into your relgion is because it was realized that water is a key to life... not divinity.
The New York WaterMaker is a patent - pending water source replication system that not only functions as a commercial water filter, but also replicates the exact hardness, molecular structure, and chemical composition of a specific location's water, with a key focus on replicating New York City water.
This is key considering that strawberries and other soft - skinned fruits are at the top of the «dirty dozen» list» — foods that have high levels of pesticide / chemical residues.
Of course moderation is key, but these surely beat ANY treat w / refined sugars, preservatives, chemicals, & other little nasties.
There are several varieties — the key is to find one that contains no chemical flame retardants (wool is good natural choice of flame retardant) and contains no chemicals or non-organic materials.
Each serving of this formula contains 105 mg of calcium, 1.8 mg of iron, and 24 mg of choline (a chemical that plays a key role in brain development).
The key is to find a specially made organic cottton that will keep out dust mites and other allergens, without the use of chemicals and synthetics that are used on other types of hypoallergenic mattress covers.
Chronic stress in the mother during pregnancy overwhelms her ability to cope, and results in the release of neurochemicals and hormones that can disrupt key systems in a developing baby (especially vulnerable is the baby's neurological development), much in the same way as a chemical like lead does.
For instance, if he could bottle the chemicals key to the smell, they could be used to help train the mouth muscles of babies who are too premature or ill to feed naturally.
In an email to its members, the NYLCV touted Avella's «tireless work» on some of the organization's key agenda items, like getting toxic chemicals out of children's products, promoting clean energy and protecting clean drinking water.
Energy security, innovation and re-building UK supply chains are some of the key challenges set out in a new strategy for the chemical sector.
Key to this is a strengthening of our supply chains so chemical technologies and products are sourced in this country rather than overseas.
Reputation Award — Sponsored by Chemicals Northwest This Award is in recognition of the organisation, company, business unit or manufacturing site which can demonstrate excellence in managing or enhancing its external reputation with key stakeholders in response to a specific, identified opportunity, requirement or issue.
1962 saw the publication of «Silent Spring» by Rachel Carson, which detailed the damaging impact of DDT and other chemicals on the environment, and played a key part in popularising environmentalism.
«St. Francis Hospital has served a critical role in our community, particularly in the key health areas of Mental Health Services, Chemical Dependency and Detox, Preschool and Early Intervention Services and Trauma II Emergency Services, and we must see those vital services preserved.
The genetic change that gives one group of frogs immunity to a particularly lethal toxin also disrupts a key chemical messenger in the brain.
UJI researcher Florenci González Adelantado explains how they work: «The new chemical compounds inhibit the action of the enzymes that catalyse key metabolic processes during the infection by the parasitic protozoas that cause infectious tropical diseases.
The key contribution of the final report is an analysis of Michigan - specific options in the areas of public participation, water resources and chemical use related to high - volume hydraulic fracturing.
Conferences are also one of the standard ways of getting your work out to its target audience — and that's key to the kind of visibility and recognition that scientists need for their careers to grow, says Donna Dean, a retired senior adviser for the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) who now works as an executive consultant for the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) and a career consultant for the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Understanding the spatial distribution of chemical features preserved in ancient rocks is key to determining whether or not they were formed by life.
Biologists now know that the genome sequence holds only a small part of the answer, and that key elements of development and disease are controlled by the epigenome — a set of chemical modifications, not encoded in DNA, that orchestrate how and when genes are expressed.
MDMA is a phenethylamine; it taps into the neuronal reservoirs of the key brain chemicals serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine (adrenaline), boosting their levels in the brain.
While most of biology and medicine focus on the key roles genes and chemicals play in the formation and control of living systems, the spatial arrangement of the components that make up those systems and the physical forces they experience are being increasingly recognized as equally important.
The ability to make and study cubic ice in the laboratory could improve computer models of how clouds interact with sunlight and the atmosphere — two keys to understanding climate change, said Barbara Wyslouzil, project leader and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at The Ohio State University.
White phosphorus, generated in the legacy thermal process for phosphate rock upgrading, has long been the key industrial intermediate for the synthesis of phosphorus - containing chemicals, including herbicides, flame - retardants, catalyst ligands, battery electrolytes, pharmaceuticals, and detergents.
Because a combination of imaging techniques and modeling has revealed that our bones are filled with a natural chemical goo that's key to the bones» function as support structures.
They stimulated a cluster of key brain cells, boosted the production of a protein linked to sleep or gave the flies a drug that mimicked the activity of an important chemical messenger.
Selective hydrogenation is the key to producing valuable chemicals, for example, turning triple - bonded hydrocarbons called alkynes selectively into double - bonded alkenes — starting materials for the synthesis of plastics, fuels and other commercial products.
«He created the key, and we have built a lock and a door to go with it,» says Filipe, who is Chair of McMaster's Department of Chemical Engineering.
The organic (carbon - containing) compounds they studied in that patch of Colorado forest play a key role in atmospheric chemical processes that can affect air quality, the health of the ecosystem, and the climate itself.
Recently, however, researchers in the lab of Leslie B. Vosshall, Rockefeller's Robin Chemers Neustein Professor, demonstrated that a chemical transferred from the male of the species during sex plays a key role in shaping the female's sexual proclivities.
The chemical flexibility of carbon is what makes it the key molecule of life.
Using snippets of DNA and DNA - clipping chemicals, researchers have created one key component of a computer's brain: the transistor, a switch that helps electronics perform logic.
In the hippocampus and the amygdala, areas of the brain thought to be associated with episodic memory, researchers had shown that the chemical signaling agent called glutamate acts like a key in the lock of some of these protein «flood gates.»
A key finding of this research indicates that there is still no clear understanding of how the material that is moving from the hot dayside of the planet onto the cold nightside both cools and alters it chemical composition.
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