Sentences with phrase «release sulfur»

The process of refining both metals can release sulfur dioxide (SO2), lead and zinc into the environment.

Meanwhile, foods such as garlic and onions release sulfur compounds as they are digested in our intestines.

Acid rain can occur naturally after volcanic eruptions, forest fires and other events that release sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.

Power plants burned coal that released sulfur into the atmosphere, but coal use has declined.

A classic case: burning fossil fuels releases sulfur dioxide gas into the air, which then turns into sulfuric acid aerosols.

Burning coal releases sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and other pollutants into the atmosphere.

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

Coal combustion releases sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), which react with water and oxygen to form acid rain.

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As the chlorophyll within this organelle absorbs energy from sunlight, it releases high - energy electrons; vitamin K1 forms a bridge between chlorophyll and several iron - sulfur centers across which these electrons travel, releasing their energy so that the cell can ultimately use it to synthesize glucose..

These cyanogenic glycosides can release cyanates that can be combined with sulfur molecules in our body to form thiocyanates.

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

South of East St. Louis, the industrial plants in Sauget release hundreds of tons of volatile organic matter, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides each year.

The ConocoPhillips Wood River refinery also released nearly 5,000 tons of sulfur dioxide, 4,000 tons of nitrogen oxides and 2,000 tons of volatile organic matter, according to data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The hot flood basalts would have released huge amounts of sulfur and carbon dioxide, potentially causing a quick global chill followed by a longer period of global warming.

Boynton says there are quite a few minerals which, if present in the Martian dirt, would release water, carbon dioxide and possibly sulfur dioxide.

The resulting high - resolution images and video, released yesterday and cobbled together using data gathered by the Voyager missions of the late 1970s and the Galileo probe that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, depict mountains that range up to 17 kilometers high, active volcanoes, dark lava fields, and bright plains smothered by sulfur deposits that have rained down from plumes that spew hundreds of kilometers high.

The main cause of acid rain is sulfur dioxide released by burning fossil fuels.

As it burns, large amounts of particulate matter, sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides are released.

When sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are released from power plants and other sources, prevailing winds blow these compounds across state and national borders, sometimes over hundreds of miles.

He is the lead author of a paper, «Massive Impact - induced Release of Carbon and Sulfur Gases in the Early Earth's Atmosphere,» recently published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In this first American DVD release of the show, you will discover the secrets of sulfur, math, iron, and more.

Still, he says, it's unclear just how much sulfur Toba released.

The new study suggests that the impact may have released around three times as much sulfur and much less carbon dioxide compared with previous estimates from 20 years ago.

A new analysis of gases released from vaporized rocks at the impact site in modern - day Mexico suggests that the smashup released up to three times more smelly, climate - cooling sulfur than previously believed.

Tall smokestacks burned coal and released airborne sulfur and nitrogen, which returned to Earth as sulfuric acid and nitric acid.

The rover drilled rocks that, baked at high temperatures, released organic materials containing sulfur.

* Joanna Morgan will share results of modeling to determine more accurately the amount of sulfur and CO2 shot into the atmosphere, including a second phase of gas release when ejecta was re-vaporized.

- The ash (even that lofted into the stratospherc by a big erruption) settles out pretty quickly (days to weeks)- - What stays around for months (years) is the hase of small H2SO4 / H2O droplets that form as a result of sulfur compounds that volcanos are prone to releasing.

When a lithium - sulfur battery stores and releases energy, the chemical reaction produces mobile molecules of sulfur that become disconnected from the electrode, causing it to degrade and ultimately lowering the battery's capacity over time.

The presence of ozone helps to explain the detection of hydroxyl (an unstable molecule of oxygen with a single atom of hydrogen) high in planet's atmosphere in 2008 (ESA news releases on ozone, sulfur dioxide, and hydroxyl; Lisa Grossman, New Scientist, October 6, 2011; and Montmessin et al, 2011).

The new study, published last week in the journal Environmental Research Letters, showed that emissions of sulfur dioxide, a common air pollutant released during coal and fossil fuel combustion, increased from 2000 to 2006, after which they started to decline.

Later that year, in October, Ronald Reagan commented on the eruption, suggesting that «one little mountain out there [Mt. St. Helens], in these last several months, has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind.»

Lignosulfonate is typically combusted on site, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere after sulfur has been captured for reuse.

Some microbes release energy as they metabolize iron or sulfur — they «eat rock,» as geomicrobiologist Martyn Tranter of the University of Liverpool put it in a commentary in Nature.

The Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs likely released far more climate - altering sulfur gas into the atmosphere than originally thought, according to new research.

Sulfur is a powerful detox element and helps the body to release toxins, especially for the liver.

Cauliflower contains phytonutrients that release odorous sulfur compounds, especially when heated.

This is due to gut microbiota that break down sulfur, releasing an eggy - smelling gas.

According to the theory that meat causes osteoporosis, excess sulfur amino acids in meat are metabolized to sulfur - based acids; as organic buffers are released from bone to neutralize the acid, the mineralized matrix of bone tissue is also dissolved.

This vibration causes a release of cellular toxins such as mercury, aluminum, cholesterol and toxic gasses such as sulfur and formaldehyde.

Because many cases of halitosis are due to sulfur compounds released by bacteria in the mouth or lower gut, food intake can play an important role.

The smell is caused by a gas called hydrogen sulphide usually contained in sulfur proteins found in some foods and is released when they are broken down by sulfur reducing microbes in the stomach or small intestine.

Sulfur burps caused by food rich in proteins can be distinguished from those with other causes because the stomach takes a comparatively longer time for processing and releasing the high protein meal.

The CBS mutation leads to excess taurine, ammonia and sulfur groups that are released into toxic sulfites in the body.

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.

- The ash (even that lofted into the stratospherc by a big erruption) settles out pretty quickly (days to weeks)- - What stays around for months (years) is the hase of small H2SO4 / H2O droplets that form as a result of sulfur compounds that volcanos are prone to releasing.

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.

In mid-August, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to make recommendations to the White House on how to reduce releases of nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and mercury from power plants.

A paper written by Benjamin Franklin in 1783 blamed the unusually cool summer of 1783 on volcanic dust coming from Iceland, where the eruption of Laki volcano had released enormous amounts of sulfur dioxide, resulting in the death of much of the island's livestock and a catastrophic famine which killed a quarter of the Icelandic population.

But it's also the by - product of fossil fuel combustion, and when a refinery or power plant reduces its greenhouse gas emissions (by becoming more energy - efficient, for example), it also releases fewer smog - forming chemicals like nitrogen oxides, less of the sulfur dioxide and soot that can irritate lungs and cause respiratory disease, and fewer toxic emissions linked to cancer and neurological disorders.