Sentences with phrase «other plant chemicals»

Grapefruits are high in fiber and low in calories, and they contain bioflavonoids and other plant chemicals that protect against serious diseases like cancer, heart disease, and the formation of tumors.

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If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.
Dow Chemical Co. and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC have announced plans to build multibillion - dollar chemical plants in Texas, Louisiana and otherChemical Co. and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC have announced plans to build multibillion - dollar chemical plants in Texas, Louisiana and otherChemical Company LLC have announced plans to build multibillion - dollar chemical plants in Texas, Louisiana and otherchemical plants in Texas, Louisiana and other states.
On the other hand efforts at genetic modification of seeds, plant and animal life can lead to dangers to human life itself as seen in the recent instances of the mad cow phenomenon in Britain and the pollution of chicken meat due to the dangerous chemicals in their feed.
Other plants emit chemicals to confuse insects that cooperate to attack plants.
The problem with any plant - based food that's not organic is there's a strong probability it was grown with the use of pesticides, herbicides, and other chemicals.
It has so many other health benefits and I'll list them briefly; high in mineral especialy calcium (more than any other plant), high in protein, anti-viral / - infection / - inflammation properties as well as offering polysaccharides which can prevent for example type two diabetes, improve liver function, stabalise blood sugar and last but not least release «happy» brain chemicals.
Other facilities and areas include a clean in place area, milk and water silos, dissolved air flotation plant, water and wastewater holding tanks, and bulk chemical storage.
They're not made from ground nuts and chemicals like other plant - based products.
In addition to leading the way for other brands to begin removing toxins from their products, this shift could likely impact the global supply market in upcoming years, increasing the availability (and decreasing the cost) of higher quality plant - based ingredients or safer chemicals that could be used in personal care products across markets.
However, Bevisol has developed a method for blending effluent so it has the right chemical and biological balance to be treated at Severn Trent Water's other anaerobic digestion plants, if necessary.
Healthy plants are better able to resist weeds and insects, enabling us to avoid pesticides and other chemicals that are commonly used to control them.
The fast - growing nature of bamboo makes it an eco-friendly choice for flooring and other wood products, but the process used to turn bamboo plants into bamboo fleece is a chemical process.
It's nothing crazy fancy like using enzymes to get rid of stains, but the variations of the chemicals used here, for example Sodium Lauryl Sulfate or SLS (among a number of others), which is people are commonly warned of, are actually plant based surfactants.
The manufacturing plants that have made Teflon - coated and other heat - resistant products in those areas used the PFOA chemical for decades.
Kinisky said Saint - Gobain has consistently taken responsibility to help find and fund alternate water supplies, or provide filtering systems, in areas where PFOA and other perflourinated chemicals have been detected in groundwater near its current and former manufacturing plants.
As an expert he has been appointed on over 400 occasions in a broad variety of cases involving such diverse projects as housing, shipping, IT supply, oil and gas, road rail and air transport, multi - storey buildings, power generation plants, hospitals, commercial and industrial buildings, petro - chemical and other process plants.
Multiple specialty manufacturing plants in eastern Rensselaer County and North Bennington, Vt., used the chemical for decades before studies emerged a decade ago linking it to cancer and other serious diseases.
According to the state, one of the sources of contamination is the Saint Gobain plant, which manufactures plastics, and other chemicals, including PFOA.
The plight of Richmond, within a ring of five refineries, three chemical plants, eight Superfund sites and numerous other pollution sources, has turned many local residents of all colors into activists, and drawn the attention of sociologists, legal scholars and scientists.
Other agricultural production goods include timber, fertilizers, animal hides, leather, industrial chemicals (starch, sugar, alcohols and resins), fibers (cotton, wool, hemp, silk and flax), fuels (methane from biomass, ethanol, biodiesel), cut flowers, ornamental and nursery plants, tropical fish and birds for the pet trade, and both legal and illegal drugs (biopharmaceuticals, tobacco, marijuana, opium, cocaine).
Sauget also is home to many other chemical plants, a hazardous waste incinerator, a copper smelter and a wastewater treatment plant.
Incinerators, metal producers, power plants, chemical manufacturers and other industries ring the city.
Other technological developments — chemical fertilizers, pesticides, plant breeding and so on — make essential contributions, but mechanization is still the outstanding factor.
Although DMAA had appeared in nasal sprays many decades ago before being removed from the market, it was now more like a «research chemical,» Cohen says, which some companies argued came from plants but which Cohen and many others disputed.
For many years, ConAgra Foods has trucked the plant's waste — feathers, organs, and other nonusable parts — to a rendering facility where it was ground and dried to make animal feed, fertilizer, and other chemical products.
Substance abuse refers to the overindulgence in and dependence on a stimulant, depressant, chemical substance, herb (plant) or fungus leading to effects that are detrimental to the individual's physical health or mental health, or the welfare of others.1
A chemical analysis of one of her teeth indicates that, between ages 5 and 10, she started eating a lot of fish and other seafood for the first time after having previously consumed mainly plants and land animals,
Since the Union Carbide disaster in India steps have been taken in the U.S. to prevent or minimize catastrophic casualties, but the degree of chemical plant safety, especially in other parts of the world, remains unclear
Chemical engineer Jay Keasling of the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues have manipulated the genetic code of Escherichia coli, a common gut bacteria, so that it can chew up plant - derived sugar to produce diesel and other hydrocarbons, according to results published in the January 28 issue of Nature.
If chemists could capture carbon dioxide and turn it into chemical building blocks for other products, the way plants do, says Cornell University chemical engineer Lynden Archer, «carbon dioxide would not be a nuisance anymore, but a gift.»
The search for food is linked to other areas in the olfactory center of female tobacco hawkmoths (Manduca sexta) than the search for plants to best lay eggs, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, found.
Some plants communicate through chemicals released by their tissues, while other species use soil bacteria to find out what's going on their neighborhoods.
Chemical engineer Charles Wyman of the University of California, Riverside, argues for biorefineries turning seed oil, the stalks and other detritus of crop plants, and even wood pulp waste into an assortment of alternative fuels.
Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large livestock farms (dairy cows, pigs, poultry, etc.), PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.
Although caffeine has not been used for chemical synthesis before, it drew the researchers» attention because it is plant - derived and can act as a weak base, meaning that it gently removes protons from other molecules.
«Emissions of particulate matter pumped into the air every single day by coal - fired power plants have greater potential human health impacts than any of the other chemicals we examined.»
In Los Angeles, air quality, particularly from traffic, is one of the worst, but other areas have different problems — coal - fired power plants, chemical factories, contaminated water, hazardous waste.
Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large animal farms, PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.
They drag fallen leaves and other plant material down from the surface and eat them, enriching the soil, and they do this in spite of toxic chemicals produced by plants to deter herbivores.
Google will also become TVA's 12th directly served customer, along with a host of chemical plants, steel mills and other large industrial power consumers.
Many plants, including the wild tomato species used in this study, produce chemical compounds to repel insect pests and other hungry herbivores.
Scientists from the University of York have developed an innovative new green method of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power stations, chemical and other large scale manufacturing plants.
Among his proudest accomplishments: helping the agency develop a set of numbers called emission factors — values that enable regulators to estimate atmospheric discharges from power plants, oil refineries, chemical plants and other industrial operations.
Similar shock treatments applied to cell cultures of barrel medic (Medicago truncatula)-- a plant similar to alfalfa — yielded a 168-fold increase in production of one chemical and at least a two-fold increase in 54 other compounds.
Cuello came up with the idea of shocking plants after testing a number of other methods to mimic a biological attack in plants that would induce chemical production.
Industrial plants that handle toxic chemicals must be declared, and countries can challenge other nations they think are breaking the treaty.
Other compounds that have been tested to stress plant cells include heavy metals, chemicals such as methyl jasmonate and sodium acetate, and the cell walls of microorganisms.
Experiments in 2014 on sagebrush showed some plants spoke a language dominated by camphor compounds, while others emitted more thujone, coincidentally the same chemical suspected to be responsible for the hallucinogenic effects of absinthe.
Resveratrol is a naturally - occurring chemical found in grape skins and other plants.
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