Sentences with phrase «small organic particles»

Only further investigation will reveal how much of it makes its way from the river transport to the deep ocean, however, and how it might affect marine life, especially microbial communities that live in and feed on small organic particles.

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For all entities, elementary particles, atoms, molecules, and so on, are organic unities, each integrating into itself organic unities smaller in size with the differences in size being unproblematical between each level, above or below.11

The addition of compost, or other organic material such as aged manure, clusters the small clay particles into lumps that will improve drainage and aeration and will make the soil easier to work and more friable (easily crumbled).

Chemicals such as dyes and pesticides can be especially harmful because they are made up of small and highly soluble organic particles that can not be completely removed during the water treatment process, ultimately ending up in our drinking water.

Xiao used battery powered aerosol monitors to measure indoor concentrations of fine particulate matter, or particles 2.5 micrometers in diameter or smaller, which consists mainly of black carbon and organic carbon.

«Despite their small size, these interplanetary dust particles may have provided higher quantities and a steadier supply of extraterrestrial organic material to early Earth,» said Michael Callahan of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Unfortunately, there have been limited studies examining their organic composition, especially with regards to biologically relevant molecules that may have been important for the origin of life, due to the miniscule size of these samples.»

Small, slow - sinking organic particles may play a bigger role than previously thought in the transport of carbon below the surface ocean.

Throughout the work, recurring circular patterns invoke sacred design as well as forms and cycles of organic growth; from solar systems to the smallest particle.

With regard to the actual content of the press release quoted, it isn't clear if the process they report on (aerosol particles, particularly organic chemicals, getting smaller over time) makes them better or worse at forming clouds and their other atmosphere cooling functions.

If by dissolved carbon you mean dissolved organic matter, this is particulate organic matter where the particles are so small that they don't sink.