Sentences with phrase «of simple compounds»

By simply adding the starting compounds, Cronin's team could synthesize a variety of simple compounds, including a ring - containing organic compound called ethylbenzene.

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One such scenario is the simple math of compound interest.

It is a simple mathematical formula of compound interest.

For many people, the simple strategy of deferring taxes as long as possible can be effective, because it allows your investment earnings to compound without the headwind of a front - end tax payment.

On a market allocation basis, the simple mathematics of compounding almost ensures that high returns and restrained volatility must go together in the long - run.

For, while Hartshorne allowed for the reality of structured societies and only specified that their unity as compound individuals was effected through the presence and activity of a dominant personally ordered subsociety, Ford equivalently wants to eliminate the reality of structured societies altogether, at least insofar as they function as compound individuals rather than as simple aggregates of occasions.

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.

What other writer, having just finished Moby - Dick and standing at the peak of his powers, would have taken in his next book a simple story about a young man's descent in the city and compounded it into the unreadable, pseudo-Hawthornian mess of Pierre?

The essential difference between living and non-living matter consists in this: the living cell synthesizes its own complicated specific material from indifferent or non-specific simple compounds of the surrounding medium, while the crystal simply adds the molecules found in its supersaturated solution.

there is endless evidence via fossils and other remains of how certain cells evolved light sensitivity and spent billions of years evolving through simple compound eyes to what we see today; the myriad different eyes used by species that presently inhabit the earth.

All of these scientific hypotheses boil down to first there was an planetary mass covered with water and providing the correct conditions for chemical reactions to create a simple organic compound from which life was formed.

Second, laws applying to genuine individuals, whether simple or compound, would be statistical, because all individuals have at least an iota of mentality and thereby spontaneity.

But, on the other hand, it is equally certain that the multiplicities of the physical world do not always combine into a simple psychical resultant, — no, not even when they are compounded in a single bodily system.

Leclerc radically reinterprets these in a relational way, making the unity of a substance to consist, not in a simple actualizing principle (substantial form as act), but in the relational acting of the various substances involved in the constitution of the compound.

Thank you for allowing me to feel that it's ok to want to be in control of what you eat and what you feed your loved ones, and for compounding my belief that there is a simpler and more nourishing way to eat amongst all the processed «food» out there.

A small quantity of compound butter, seasoned with garlic and herbs, makes a simple but delicious finish for a tender steak.

This is the first recurve on the list; it won't get the power of a compound bow, but the simple setup makes it easy to string.

The vapor accompanying these particles was mostly water but contained trace amounts of simple organic compounds, as well as carbon dioxide and ammonia — all ingredients important for the sustenance and even origin of life.

Contrary to predictions, two planets orbiting distant stars show no signs of water and other simple compounds; dark clouds or haze may hide them

In fact, there was not enough material to trace the source of any compound except for glycine, the simplest amino acid.

That's because researchers have tailored a 3D printer to synthesize pharmaceuticals and other chemicals from simple, widely available starting compounds fed into a series of water bottle — size reactors.

Remarkably, two compounds that seem to exert these neuroprotective effects — both of them a focus of intense interest in schizophrenia research — aren't sophisticated drugs but simple compounds found in nature.

The last piece of the poppy puzzle is now in hand: Plant geneticists have isolated the gene in the plant that carries out the last unknown step in converting glucose and other simple compounds into codeine, morphine, and a wide variety of other medicines.

Stanley Miller, who died on May 20, performed one of biology's most famous experiments in 1952, when he showed that simple compounds could form amino acids when zapped with electricity.

«In addition to advancing our understanding of human embryonic development, the findings suggest we may be able to use metabolites, relatively simple compounds, to alter cell fate in the treatment of common disorders.»

Given the potential for living systems to produce highly complex chemical compounds, researchers working with Michelle C.Y. Chang at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), aimed to manipulate the biosynthetic machinery in cells to use simple fluorinated building blocks to make new organofluorine target molecules.

The dust consists of elements such as carbon and simple, heat - resistant compounds such as titanium dioxide and calcium oxide (lime).

«The rover has made this detection of simple organic compounds,» says project scientist John Grotzinger of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

This simple problem has been compounded in the past century, and in particular in the past 30 years, by an ever - increasing role of teamwork in research.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — The first full analysis of martian soil by the Curiosity rover has detected simple carbon compounds that could be the first traces of past martian life ever found, NASA scientists announced here today at a press conference at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

What Curiosity actually detected were trace amounts of three of the simplest possible carbon - containing compounds: a carbon atom with one, two, or three chlorine atoms attached in place of hydrogen atoms.

But he did isolate another group of simple salivary compounds — the histatins — that caused epithelial scratches to close up to twice as quickly as normal.

«The main sources of these compounds include tea and citrus fruits and juices, which are readily incorporated into the diet, suggesting that simple changes in food intake could have an impact on reducing ovarian cancer risk.

University of Illinois chemist Martin Burke, a pioneer of a technique that constructs complex molecules from simple chemical «building blocks,» led a group that found that thousands of compounds in a class of molecules called polyenes — many of which have great potential as drugs — can be built simply and economically from a scant one dozen different building blocks.

In the monophyletic model, these variations are less illustrative of non-vertebrate types such as the arthropod (compound) eye, but as those eyes are simpler to begin with, there are fewer intermediate stages to find.

A team of IBM researchers in Zurich, Switzerland with support from colleagues in Yorktown Heights, New York has developed a relatively simple, robust and versatile process for growing crystals made from compound semiconductor materials that will allow them be integrated onto silicon wafers — an important step toward making future computer chips that will allow integrated circuits to continue shrinking in size and cost even as they increase in performance.

«What we decided to do was not to use a complex mixture such as sweat that we can not control very much,» she says, «but, on the other end, try to use a simple component that we know is in sweat and assess how much smelling this compound can affect the physiology of the woman.»

But it is not clear whether RNA preceded or followed the origin of metabolism, which relies on the chemistry of much simpler organic compounds.

To achieve this, researchers selected a set of bacteria capable of transforming complex substrates such as methanol, dairy waste, starch and glycerol, into simpler compounds which could, in turn, be degraded by exoelectrogens.

The chemists, led by Ian Henderson and Michael Ohlmeyer of Pharmacopeia, a company in Princeton, New Jersey, were able to prepare over 6000 different compounds using just a few simple reactions.

Each time the chemists add a head, body or tail to a sample of beads, they also attach simple organic compounds called ketones containing carbon atom chains of varying lengths.

The issue for scientists has been that it is not easy to look at simple chlorine - containing organic molecules and determine the origin of the organic compound components.

There is something that flips a switch and it's usually not just one gene either, because most of these secondary compounds that make effective medicines are not just simple proteins that can be made by one gene; they are actually simpler molecules, but they have to be made by a whole pathway that has, you know, enzymes that are snipping here and adding on parts of the compound there, so that whole pathway has to get turned on and all these pathways can go in different directions.

«It never ceases to amaze me how a simple molecule, such as saccharin — something many people put in their coffee everyday — may have untapped uses, including as a possible lead compound to target aggressive cancers,» says Robert McKenna, Ph.D., who is at the University of Florida.

Under extreme pressure, black phosphorus is transformed into a simple cubic form, so the team wondered if the same could be done to GeSe and heated the abundant alpha - GeSe form of the compound to 1200 °C under 6 GPa of pressure or 60,000 times atmospheric pressure.

Considering its significant role in this scandal and wide variety of medicinal uses, triamcinolone is a relatively simple organic compound.

These efforts to produce simple organic compounds from simple reagents heralded the dawn of prebiotic organic chemistry.

The alignment of unpaired electrons in multiple orbitals gives simple iron its strong magnetic and metal properties, so it's easy to see why iron compounds would be good conductors.

Alternatively, some hypothesize that the reservoir of light carbon on the early Earth indicates the presence of simple organic compounds — possibly brought by asteroidal or cometary impactors — that created a hospitable environment for the later emergence of life (more discussion in Rachel Courtland, New Scientist, July 2, 2008; Sid Perkins, Science News, July 2, 2008; and Jonathan Fildes, BBC News, July 2, 2008).

But in the freezing and thawing soil layer, sequencing showed that bacteria within the soil samples were producing some intriguing proteins, including enzymes that snip long chains of carbon molecules, like cellulose from plants, into shorter, simpler sugar compounds that the bacteria can use as fuel.