Sentences with phrase «organic solvents up»
«The pores in the nanosheets provide the surface area to absorb oils and organic solvents up to 33 times its own weight.»
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But the process still required dangerous organic solvents, and recovering the reaction products from the mix of solvent and catalyst required turning up the heat to distill the solvent, a treatment that could destroy the catalyst.
Such batteries typically rely on liquid electrolytes, which are made up of an organic solvent and dissolved salts.
In hopes of limiting the disastrous environmental effects of massive oil spills, materials scientists from Drexel University and Deakin University, in Australia, have teamed up to manufacture and test a new material, called a boron nitride nanosheet, that can absorb up to 33 times its weight in oils and organic solvents — a trait that could make it an important technology for quickly mitigating these costly accidents.
«Solids are far less likely to blow up or vaporize than organic solvents.
For example, synthetic organic solvents used in dry cleaning enter our bodies on touch, only to take up residence in fatty tissues, like the breast and liver.