Sentences with phrase «oxides released into»

Acid rain develops when compounds like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere combine with water and oxygen to form acidic pollutants such as sulfuric acid (EPA, 2012).

Acid rain: Also called acid precipitation or acid deposition, acid rain is precipitation containing harmful amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids formed primarily by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned.

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Automobiles, power plants and industries release oxides of nitrogen into the atmosphere.

Both released harmful emissions of nitrous oxides and sulfur dioxide into the air in violation of air emission standards.

Enriched uranium oxide is formed into rods and water is used both as a coolant, flowing through the reactor core to transfer heat away, and as a moderator, slowing down neutrons released by fission so that they promote further nuclear reactions.

The software fooled EPA emissions testers into thinking that Volkswagen's diesel engines produced less emissions of nitrogen oxides than they released in the real world.

Stein and Amadei applied both techniques to solutions of graphene oxide flakes and observed similar effects: The bubbles that were created in solution eventually collapsed, releasing energy that caused the flakes to spontaneously curl into scrolls.

Researchers at University of California, Riverside have measured the mobility of graphene oxide (GO) in water and have determined that it could move around easily if it were released into lakes and streams.

The ozone on Earth and the titanium oxide on WASP - 19b both absorb light from their parent stars, but the TiO releases the energy locally, into the stratosphere.

When scraps of steel and brass are anodized using a common household chemical and residential electrical current, the researchers found that the metal surfaces are restructured into nanometer - sized networks of metal oxide that can store and release energy when reacting with a water - based liquid electrolyte.

The name Oxy - Powder was chosen to describe the process and power of transmuting a preparation of ozone and magnesium oxides into a stabilized oxygen releasing powder to support health and longevity.

It has also prevented more than 73 tons of carbon dioxide, 54 pounds of nitrogen oxide, 136 pounds of sulfur dioxide, and 700 milligrams of mercury from being released into the air.

Those 12,000 - plus miles have cost us almost $ 900 in diesel fuel — and cost the environment who knows how much, since no fix yet exists to stop our SportWagen from releasing 10 to 40 times the allowable amount of nitrous oxide into the atmosphere.

In the charging phase, heat from a CSP collector breaks down strontium carbonate into strontium oxide and carbon dioxide; during discharge, the process is reversed and heat is released to power a turbine

This is due to a combination of particulate matter, sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen that are released into the atmosphere when coal is burned.

Approximately 90 % of nitrous oxide is released into the atmosphere from nitrogen fertilizer production and nylon products manufacturing.

Ozone is an odorless gas that is not directly emitted into the air but is created by chemical reactions between nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC)-- which occur naturally but are also produced from the burning of fossil fuels and are released in the process of drilling for oil and natural gas.

In addition to greenhouse gases, tar sands operations release large volumes of acid rain - causing sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the environment.

The mining and extraction process releases sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, and fine particulate matter into the atmosphere.

In freshwater systems, acidifying depositions occur following the release of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the atmosphere, mainly from the combustion of fossil fuels, which then may fall in dry or wet form.

Proven harmful substances released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels include: particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, carbon monoxide and mercury; among others.

It also seems that Rajt is quite myopic in her criticisms of factory farming, because as opposed to Niman's nuanced arguments, she completely fails to acknowledge the very serious problems of factory farmed monocrops, which wipe out entire ecosystems, turn our topsoil into a desert wasteland, and release massive amounts of carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide into the atmosphere.