"Precursor chemicals" refers to substances that are used to make drugs, explosives, or other illegal or dangerous substances. They are like the building blocks or ingredients that are combined to create such products.
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Factors that affect ozone formation include heat, concentrations
of precursor chemicals, and methane emissions.
French researchers have incorporated molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs)-- dubbed «plastic antibodies» — into a cosmetic product to capture
precursor chemicals in human sweat that cause bad smells.
That's why they are binary agents, made from two
safe precursor chemicals which are then mixed together just before use, probably at a pesticide or fertiliser manufacturing plant.
The chemicals used in methamphetamine production are highly toxic and can include not only pseudoephenadrine — the main ingredient in meth and active ingredient in decongestants — but also 32
other precursor chemicals.
In the famous Miller - Urey experiment of the 1950s, researchers produced a rich soup of amino acids by running an electric current through flasks containing elements of a primitive Earth, thus showing
how precursor chemicals could have formed here.
Consumers reach for highly watered - down hydrogen peroxide to clean out minor cuts and scrapes, but the chemical also could be useful for numerous industrial processes as different as making flexible foam seat cushions or
precursor chemicals for flame retardants.
Before the deal was struck on Syria's chemical weapons, French intelligence estimated that Syria possessed more than 1,000 metric tons of chemical warfare agents and
precursor chemicals, including mustard blister agent, sarin nerve agent, and VX nerve agent.
If the amount of meth detected is at such a low level, some state regulators think, meth's
precursor chemicals are at low levels too.
The U.N. resolution does allow such transfers, as would occur if
the precursor chemicals now in Syria are shipped to other nations for destruction.