Sentences with phrase «organic particles»

The team plans to study soil organic particles from different locations to better understand their environmental impact.

The liquid by now was so murky with organic particles it was difficult to see the shark.

Small, slow - sinking organic particles may play a bigger role than previously thought in the transport of carbon below the surface ocean.

Therefore, a commonly held view that organic particles from wildfires primarily reflect sunlight, and cause cooling, was not supported by the study.

Her research on high - resolution mass spectrometry provided key insights on the relationship between the chemical composition of organic particles in the atmosphere and their possible impacts.

Bacteria and viruses present in either human faeces or gull droppings tend to attach themselves to organic particles in the water — and the mussels filter them from the water as they feed.

Only further investigation will reveal how much of it makes its way from the river transport to the deep ocean, however, and how it might affect marine life, especially microbial communities that live in and feed on small organic particles.

[Bingbing Wang et al, Airborne soil organic particles generated by precipitation]

Sea butterflies feed by suspending themselves in the water column and extruding a web of mucus that passively catches sinking plankton and other organic particles.

Chemicals such as dyes and pesticides can be especially harmful because they are made up of small and highly soluble organic particles that can not be completely removed during the water treatment process, ultimately ending up in our drinking water.

She decided to study the role that organic particles play in cloud droplet formation, because a large proportion of marine aerosols — which have a significant climate impact — are organics.

After a four - year experiment with two comparable 533 - tonne samples of municipal waste, the leachate from the wet cell contained dissolved organic particles from food, leaves and garden debris totalling 2700 milligrams per litre.

Regional estimates of organic particle emissions from fossil fuel and biofuel combustion in tonnes of carbon per year, in a scenario for 2030.

«Vegetation and climate: New gas - phase compounds form organic particle ingredients.»

The viruses tend to hitch rides on smaller, lighter, organic particles suspended in air and gas, meaning they can stay aloft in the atmosphere longer.

In the air, the droplets in the mist dry and their contents become solid glassy organic particles.

Using lidar, a light - based system like radar, the instrument can detect organic particles that indicate living organisms, and even determine how recently that life may have been present.

The most important biological means of establishing Holocene climate involves palynology, the study of pollen, spores, and other microscopic organic particles.

The resulting organic particles and zooplankton that fed on the blooms, then circulated over the Bermuda reef.

Researchers deploy a McLane pump during a 2013 west Pacific GEOTRACES cruise to gather small organic particles to which mercury attaches.

«We are interested in understanding how sunlight affects the chemical composition of organic particles,» said Dr. Adam Bateman, who worked on this and other global change studies.

To do the study, scientists took advantage of the science capabilities at three DOE user facilities: EMSL at PNNL, the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility, where the soil organic particles were first recognized.

According to the authors, scientists have largely assumed that organic particles from the soil enter the air through erosion by wind or through agricultural work.

When UV light hits a film of pure titanium dioxide, it breaks down any organic particles found there.

The spectrum gives us information on their composition and distinguishes the organic particles, which are fluorescent, from the other particles.

McGrail is building a small prototype to test the metal - organic particles with various fluids.

This turns it alkaline, to about pH 10, making the surface charge on the magnetite negative and so releasing the organic particles.

Two important aerosol species, sulfate and organic particles, have large natural biogenic sources that depend in a highly complex fashion on environmental and ecological parameters and therefore are prone to influence by global change.

These organic particles are carbon - based and come from decaying vegetation and organisms.

Why it Matters: Pollutants from fossil fuel burning, forest fires and biofuel consumption include a mix of chemicals and organic particles.

The North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study (NAAMES) will take to the sea and air, for the third year, to study how the world's largest plankton bloom gives rise to small organic particles that influence clouds and climate.

It's called:» MOLECULAR ADHESION» After sinking in the ground; those organic particles disintegrate deep in the soil.

The `' smelly» bit is the organic particles, the sinker; to make it to sink in the ground.

And the Kuaray — with its organic particles of plastic, lithium ions, discarded aluminum soda cans and corn — is not merely autonomous but almost fully recyclable.

«So the sulfur fuel regulations have the indirect effect of reducing the organic particles emitted.»