Sentences with phrase «other tiny particles»

Over the past decade, scientists have linked soot and other tiny particles produced by combustion to heart attacks, asthma, and lung cancer, spurring a clampdown on fine particle pollution by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

«Due to advanced technology used at U.S. - based coal burning power plants, mandated by the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency, most of these nanoparticles and other tiny particles are removed before the final emission of the plant's exhaust gases,» Hochella said.

Not exact matches

The nineteenth - century view of the nature of physical reality was that the world was composed of particles (tiny things) which reacted to each other according to scientific laws.

She said the reason jalapeños are spicy, and differently spicy than most other chiles, is because there are tiny particles within the jalapeño that cause very tiny lacerations on the tongue and inside of the mouth when eaten.

The result is ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate, molecules that condense with others of their kind, plus water, to form tiny particles in the air that absorb sunlight and block visibility — smog.

Uranium and other radioactive materials, such as caesium and technetium, have been found in tiny particles released from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors.

Most carbon emissions linked to human activity are in the form of carbon dioxide gas (CO2), but other forms of carbon include the methane gas (CH4) and the particles generated by such fires — the tiny bits of soot, called black carbon, and motes of associated substances known as brown carbon.

In fact, other researchers have already shown the key phenomena of quantum theory emerge from a generalization of probability theory that could, too, have been in principle devised in the 18th century, before there was any inkling that tiny particles behave this way.

The dust — and the tiny bacteria and molecules it carries with it across the Pacific Ocean — is then mixing with other airborne particles like sea spray and smoke to have distinct and variable impacts on clouds and precipitation, Prather said.

Carbon nanodots are tiny particles of carbon that are useful in imaging, sensing, drug delivery and many other applications.

Other tiny solid and liquid particles called aerosols are also being transported around the atmosphere, but these are largely invisible to our eyes.

To investigate the layers and composition of clouds and tiny airborne particles like dust, smoke and other atmospheric aerosols,, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland have developed an instrument called the Cloud - Aerosol Transport System, or CATS.

It's a popular goal in nanotechnology these days: using tiny particles as containers to ferry drugs to tumors, among other targets.

tiny particles suspended in the air that can penetrate deep into the lungs, causing cancer and other respiratory disease.

In most materials, including copper and other metals that conduct electricity, electrons navigate an obstacle course of microscopic outcroppings, ledges and other imperfections that obstruct the tiny particles and send them scattering in the wrong directions.

One end of each probe was designed to bind to the free end of the target anthrax DNA; the other end carried a tiny gold particle.

Steve: Well, so let's review: just basically string theory says that there are many dimensions that we're not aware of in our three - dimensional world of perception and that all the fundamental particles are actually tiny little strings that are vibrating in different ways from each other.

And this is something that physicists have been arguing about for a very, very long time, but what the authors of this article point out is that the work by John Bell, but also some more recent experimental work, seems to indicate that in fact there really is a deep nonlocality to the universe; that there really is someway in which there is not some sort of missing x-factor that if we just knew what it was that would explain everything; that we would see the dominos connecting, those invisible tiny dominos connecting those different particles and set up the effect of going one to the other.

Led by MIT chemical engineering professor Patrick Doyle and Lincoln Laboratory technical staff member Albert Swiston, the researchers have invented a new type of tiny, smartphone - readable particle that they believe could be deployed to help authenticate currency, electronic parts, and luxury goods, among other products.

Then they tumbled and spun tiny particles of polystyrene, biphenyl, naphthalene and other hydrocarbons inside it, watching as the material collided, charged and clumped under conditions simulating Titan's atmosphere and lower gravity.

Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute and Erik Asphaug of the University of California at Santa Cruz used a highly detailed computer modeling system — one that divided Earth and its impactor into more than 20,000 tiny particles whose interactions under stress both with each other and with gravity were simulated — to investigate their scenario.

The detector lights up every time a neutrino, a tiny elementary particle, breaks into other particles.

A research team led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed an approach that links the scattering coefficient, a measure of how much tiny particles suspended in the atmosphere scatter sunlight, with other particle properties.

particulates Also called particle pollution (or PM), this is a mixture of very tiny particles and droplets that can include soot, dust, metals, acids and a host of other chemicals.

e-cigarette (short for electronic cigarette) Battery - powered devices that disperse nicotine and other chemicals as tiny airborne particles that users can inhale.

Clouds are made of tiny water droplets or ice crystals that have condensed onto tiny pieces of sea salt, dust, smoke, or other particles in the air.

Pollution from vehicle exhaust, power plants, wood stoves, and other sources contain tiny particles that can also contribute to lung cancer.

IOM spokeswoman Christine Stencel says that the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and others have provided «convincing data» on the ability of the respirators to filter out a large percentage of tiny particles.

This usually occurs at times when outdoor molds release their spores or when plants release tiny pollen particles into the air to fertilize other plants.

I was more referring to grease - like compounds that typically have tiny particles of aluminum, copper, graphite, or other high - load bearing chemicals.

Very special shock absorbers, developed by then - GM subsidiary Delphi and now used by Ferrari among others, use powerful electro - magnets, tiny metal particles suspended in oil, and high - speed sensors to read road conditions and change damping every millisecond.

Yes I mean little because you are a tiny particle, called a mote, that needs to absorb smaller organisms in order to grow while fending off predators and other challenges.

Other scientists have considered injecting tiny particles known as aerosols into the stratosphere, the region above the troposphere, as a way to cool the planet, Science magazine reported.

Like other tiny atmospheric particles called aerosols, black carbon (BC) has a short lifetime in the atmosphere of about a week because it is removed by rain or snow.

But it turns out many of the tiny plastic particles in the ocean and lakes started out as bigger plastic items — shopping bags, six - pack rings, food wrappers and other products.

As part of that calculation, researchers have relied on simplifying assumptions when accounting for the temperature impacts of climate drivers other than carbon dioxide, such as tiny particles in the atmosphere known as aerosols, for example.»

Condensation in the atmosphere, and therefore cloud formation, begins only in the presence of tiny particles of smoke, salt, or certain other substances.

The worsening of the picture, ironically, is due to a projected cleansing of the atmosphere in coming decades of other emissions from fuel burning that have a cooling influence on climate — specifically the veil of tiny particles of sulfates from unfiltered burning of coal and oil that contribute to smog and acid rain.

They included e-ink screens, which use tiny microcapsules filled with positive and negatively charged particles, and microfiche sheets, an old analog format used by libraries and other archival institutions to preserve old paper documents.

The small particles of paint that are emitted from the nozzle can coat small corners, slats in a fence or any other tiny spaces which are almost impossible to do when using a roller.