Sentences with phrase «release ethylene»

A bruised apple will release ethylene gas that can quickly ruin its neighbors.

The banana will release ethylene which will speed up the ripening of the avocado.

The apple releases ethylene gas, a ripening agent.

Not exact matches

Avoid storing next to ethylene gas - releasing fruits such as apples, apricots, melons, and figs.

This is because fresh produce releases a gas called «ethylene» into the atmosphere.

With a little chemical nudging those carbon atoms release one bond, allowing each to reach out and grab the carbon in another ethylene molecule.

Materials capable of storing heat include those such as bricks or concrete that slowly release the stored heat, and others such as water or ethylene glycol that take in heat when they transform from a solid to a liquid.

The process converts roughly 50 percent of the natural gas to acetylene — the other half is burned for the heat that drives the process, which still releases CO2 into the atmosphere — and nearly all of that acetylene to ethylene, and then ethylene to fuel.

In a well - ventilated bag, apples release low levels of ethylene gas, a gas that suppresses the elongation of the potatoes» cells and prevents sprouting.

No mention is made of the fact that «The production of PVC and its feedstocks, vinyl chloride monomer and ethylene dichloride results in the release of hundreds of thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals into the environment each year, mainly in poor, communities of color in the Louisiana and Texas.