Sentences with phrase «other than oxygen»

Bionic leaves that could produce energy - dense fuels from nothing more than sunlight, water and atmosphere - warming carbon dioxide, with no byproducts other than oxygen, represent an ideal alternative to fossil fuels but also pose numerous scientific challenges.

How can the Earth's second most vital gas, other than oxygen, be a pollutant?

So they are the only products (other than oxygen) that might ease a sudden attack of difficult respiration or aid in an emergency situation (sudden bronchoconstriction).

Other than oxygen, water is the most vital substance that our bodies need to function correctly.

Not exact matches

Some incompetent managers invoke staff pity more than pain, while others drain the morale from a conference room — something akin to draining the available oxygen — the moment they walk in.

The tech bubble of 1998 - 2000 sucked all the oxygen out of the stock market and left no capital for any securities other than tech and telecom companies.

If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.

My son may have been deprived of oxygen on his way out given that he had to have oxygen for awhile, and I'm sure the prophylactic antibiotics he got postpartum to treat a presumed pneumothorax messed with his gut flora, but other than that I can't say what caused his issues.

The incidence of sleep apnea and the incidence of desaturation of oxygen levels is higher in a car seat than in any other place.

She still has her nasal canuala for oxygen (and she came home on oxygen, too); but other than that, she looks like a happy and healthy little newborn baby.

The staff, which includes developmental pediatricians, neonatologists, a nurse practitioner, a psychologist, a psychometrist, and a nutritionist provide services for infants who were born weighing less than 1250 grams, discharged on oxygen or a monitor, or who had other special problems as a newborn.

The Owlet sock monitor is one of the newest baby sleep monitors on the market and it was designed with the same technology that hospitals use to track a baby's oxygen levels, so it's more accurate than other types of sleep monitors.

That is, oxygen tends to fall out of the air as rust and other mineral oxides rather than linger as a gas, so when it exists in abundance, something — photosynthetic life, in Earth's case — must be constantly replenishing it.

Another specious claim is that there's been some talk about him being able to utilize oxygen better than other people.

The air we breathe is twenty - one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world.

The rise of oxygen may have wiped out a greater proportion of life than in any other mass extinction.

In places where sea - floor oxygen levels are a bit higher — about 0.5 — 3 % of concentrations at the sea surface — animals are more abundant but their food webs remain limited: the animals still feed on microbes rather than on each other.

It's hard to come up with any other process that can produce that amount of oxygen, other than the activity of living things.

The worms without SRP - 6 were also more likely to die than normal worms when subjected to other stressors, including heat and oxygen deprivation.

Levels of oxygen 18 in ice core samples from the 1990s were more elevated than for any other time in the last 200 years, but were very similar to levels reached during some earlier decades.

The microbes rely on oxygen, carbon and other nutrients in their deep environment to live, but Røy's team found that carbon is so limited that the cells respire oxygen 10,000 times slower than bacteria in lab - grown cultures.

Misra explained that while oxygen is thought an indicator of life, it's also possible for oxygen to be produced abiotically, or by something other than biology.

«Their cost of transport — the oxygen they use to move — is 48 percent lower than any other swimming animal,» says Bradford J. Gemmell, a marine biologist at the University of South Florida.

Microbes seem far - fetched at this point, but the other alternative — that the Martian atmosphere contained more oxygen in the past than it does now — seems possible, Lanza said.

What makes the WEAV potentially appealing as a way to power spacecraft is that it relies on electricity (from a battery or some other power source) rather than combustion — a process that requires oxygen, which is in short supply outside Earth's atmosphere, Colozza says.

New research reveals that the fish is well - adapted to this journey — it has a bigger, better heart and uses oxygen more efficiently than do other local salmon.

Imaging study finds that pure oxygen feeds routinely administered to revive stroke victims and others may do more harm than good

In most places in the world's oceans, microbes consume all the oxygen less than 10 centimeters into the sediment and below that depth switch to using other compounds for respiration.

«Whales and other deep - diving marine mammals can pack 10 to 20 times more myoglobin into their cells than humans can, and that allows them to «download» oxygen directly into their skeletal muscles and stay active even when they are holding their breath,» said Olson, Rice's Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology.

With JWST, a few hours of integration time will be enough to detect Earth - like levels of water vapor, molecular oxygen, carbon dioxide and other generic biosignatures on planets orbiting a white dwarf; beyond that, observing the same planet for up to 1.7 days will be enough to detect the two CFCs in concentrations of 750 parts per trillion, or 10 times greater than on Earth.

Less well known are other higher titanium oxides — those with a higher number of titanium and oxygen atoms than TiO — that are now the subject of intensifying research due to their potential use in next - generation electronic devices.

ISRU stands for «in - situ resource utilization» — a concept that, to feasibly explore and colonize other planets, we must be able to manufacture or harvest important materials (water, oxygen, food) from other planets, rather than shipping everything from Earth.

[90] Class S stars have excess amounts of zirconium and other elements produced by the s - process, and have more similar carbon and oxygen abundances than class M or carbon stars.

Because snow leopards successfully live at such high altitudes (3500m to 6500m) for many years researchers thought the haemoglobin of this species was in some way adapted so it could carry more oxygen than the haemoglobins of other big cats.

The amount of oxygen in a galaxy is determined primarily by three factors: how much oxygen comes from large stars that end their lives violently in supernova explosions — a ubiquitous phenomenon in the early Universe, when the rate of stellar births was dramatically higher than the rate in the Universe today; how much of that oxygen gets ejected from the galaxy by so - called «super winds,» which propel oxygen and other interstellar gases out of galaxies at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour; and how much pristine gas enters the galaxy from the intergalactic medium, which doesn't contain much oxygen.

Molecules with three or more atoms, like CO2 and other greenhouse gases, do this much better than molecules with just two, like oxygen (O2) and nitrogen (N2).

More than one hundred vitamin B6 - dependent enzymes have been identified, mostly involved in amino acid metabolism: for oxygen transport via hemoglobin synthesis; in blood sugar regulation via conversion of stored carbohydrate to energy; in the development of the myelin sheath surrounding nerve cells; in the conversion of alphalinoleic acid to the essential long - chain fatty acid DHA; 28 and in the synthesis of neurotransmitters, phospholipids and sphingolipids, the vitamin niacin from tryptophan, and other vital metabolites.5 In addition to its role in enzyme reactions, B6 appears to moderate the action of some steroid hormones such as the glucocorticoid hormones, which in turn influence the metabolism of protein, carbohydrate and lipids.5, 9 B6 also is a potent antioxidant, rivaling carotenoids and vitamin E in its ability to quench reactive oxidants in the body.29

Shroom TECH Sport battles fatigue with a strategy unlike any other supplement on the market, providing cellular energy through the production of ATP rather than purely stimulant - based energy, and helping the body to improve oxygen utilization so you can go longer, recover faster, and set a new personal best.

You Talk During The Entire Workout: If you have enough breath in your body to carry on a conversation about any other topic other than how much weight you should be lifting then you are using up unnecessary oxygen.

With a towel rack, magazine rack, oxygen ionizer, 2 backrests and tinted glass this unit has more accessories than the other saunas we reviewed.

«While an adult human brain typically weighs only about 2 % of the body weight, a resting brain consumes more than 20 % of all the oxygen, thus indicating a 10-fold greater energy requirement than other tissues.

Sprints and other high - intensity work has been shown to improve oxygen uptake better than endurance training.

Since almost all body tissues consume oxygen, although some tissues more than others (i.e. muscle consumes more oxygen than fat), a person with a larger total body mass will be much more likely to consume more total oxygen than a person with a lower total body mass.

Using a lab testing procedure called ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity), USDA researcher Ronald Prior, Ph.D., found that a one - cup serving of Wild Blueberries has more total antioxidant capacity (TAC) than 20 other fruits and veggies, including cranberries, strawberries, plums, raspberries and even cultivated blueberries.

Some antioxidants are more powerful than others, and the ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) chart can tell you which antioxidants will soak up the most free radicals.

Women of childbearing age typically lose more iron than other populations, while pregnant women need more iron to support increasing demands for oxygen for both mom and baby.

Oxygen comes to us limited to 21 % and there is little can do about that (other than live a very high altitude).

They learned about different soil types and the oxygen and other needs of plants, created schedules for optimum watering and learned why one schedule was better than another, and developed multimedia projects to share what they learned.

I write because history shows us — heck, The Daily Show and Roxane Gay and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and thousands of journalists and bloggers and working poets and writers literally show us every day — that it's the best weapon against hopelessness and despair and loneliness, mightier than tear gas and homophobia and injustice and corrupt politicians and fracking and every other evil in the world, and every bit as necessary for reaching our human potential as oxygen is for continued function of the brain.

Red blood cells in chinchillas can hold more oxygen than other rodents.