Sentences with phrase «several chemical processes»

Meanwhile, back at the trailer, lab technicians have taken each specimen, tested it in several chemical processes that take roughly three hours and then marked each tag with a notice that reads «negative» — or, very occasionally, «positive.»

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But the contaminants can come from several sources: from the hydraulic fracturing process itself, from the waste water, from the pits where drilling chemicals are stored, or from transporting chemicals and wastewater.

Beatty believes that when 570 degree Fahrenheit water from thermal vents hits cold, deep ocean currents, several light - producing processes may occur: sonoluminescence from imploding gas bubbles; chemiluminescence from chemical reactions (analogous to fireflies lighting up); crystalloluminescence from the formation of crystal bonds; and triboluminescence from the breaking of those bonds.

A team of University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign (U.I.U.C.) physicists has assembled a supercomputer consisting of several hundred superfast graphics processing units (GPUs)-- typically used for rendering highly sophisticated video game graphics — that they think will help them build a simulation depicting how chromatophore proteins turn light energy into chemical energy, a process called photosynthesis.

Several long - lived worms carry mutations in a gene involved in a process that appears to use chemical signals to trigger activities inside cells.

Using photosynthetically active microorganisms, researchers at the Ruhr - Universität Bochum (RUB) have succeeded in manufacturing several biocatalysts suitable for industrial application: a crucial step towards sustainable chemical processes, according to Dr Marc Nowaczyk from the Chair for Plant Biochemistry and Jun. - Prof Dr Robert Kourist, Junior Research Group Microbial Biochemistry.

It's the result of an effort by Paula Hammond, who heads MIT's chemical engineering department, to perfect a process of layer - by - layer assembly that enables nanoparticles to carry several drugs between their strata.

5MTHF, along with several other nutrients, is also used to create and process neurotransmitters (messengers in the nervous system like serotonin, epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine); create immune cells and process hormones (such as estrogen); as well as to produce energy and detoxify chemicals.

There are several ways in which the reduction of nutrients may occur: heat, synthetic chemical processing, and digestion (or fermentation, which is an exogenous means of pre-digesting nutrients).

Sulphur: Part of the chemical structure of several amino acids, sulphur aids in many biochemical processes.

Several thousand chemical food additives found in processed and prepared foods damage the absorption of nutrients.

Several processes are at play during phase II detoxification, but conjugation — the process of making harmful chemicals dissolve in water — may be most important to rid our bodies of carcinogens.

Methylene blue appears to slow and reverse aspects of the aging process in human skin Described as «the first fully synthetic drug used in medicine», methylene blue is a common and inexpensive chemical used to treat several conditions and is also a potent staining agent.

The human body tightly regulates salt concentration because it is crucial to chemical reactions that support enzyme function, energy and hormone production, protein transport and several other biological processes.

«The rest is removed by slower processes that take up to several hundreds of thousands of years, including chemical weathering and rock formation.

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