Sentences with phrase «trace chemicals»

It was believed that there were trace chemicals in foods that were essential to life.

A chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a portable version of his method for recovering trace chemicals such as environmental pollutants and forensic evidence including secret graves and arson fire debris.

NIST chemist Tom Bruno, who invented a method for recovering trace chemicals such as environmental pollutants and forensic evidence, uses a portable version of the instrument to sample vapor inside an old paint can.

It is quite probable that Earth 2.0 will be hundreds or even thousands of light years away; too far from us to detect trace chemical «biosignatures» that would suggest life.

The analysis traced the chemicals which are made airborne from burning coal and found a number of health damages were caused as a result.

Even though trace chemicals from tobacco do pass into breast milk, the benefits of the disease - fighting cells in the breast milk outweigh the negative effect of those chemicals.

«I don't want to find out years from now that, inadvertently, we were allowing [children] to drink water with trace chemicals that were bad for them,» the governor said.

The new portable kit collects trace chemicals while analysis is performed with other instruments such as gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, which can also be made portable.

Finally, ATLAST will have the potential to aide in the discovery of life in our galactic neighborhood, by detecting certain trace chemicals in the atmospheres of Earth - like planets.

From cyber security, trace chemical detection, and turning sewage into fuel, to understanding real - world energy processes and forecasting future electric needs, PNNL was part of developing five advancements honored at a recent award event in Las Vegas.

There can be many trace chemicals and pharmaceuticals contaminating your water — things like prescription drugs, lead, heavy metals, pesticides, and even asbestos.

Many people do not know that cats have scent glands in their feet and when they paw at something, they are actually leaving trace chemical signals behind informing other cats about territory and sex.

However, studies have shown that they still release highly toxic trace chemicals such as arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead and mercury.

Instruments traced the chemical action of the penetrating cosmic rays in the reaction chamber.

But pinpointing specific culprits from the vast array of trace chemicals in the environment has proved difficult.

While the shock waves from CMEs pour energy into Earth's upper atmosphere, puffing it up and heating it, they also cause the formation of the trace chemical nitric oxide, which then rapidly cools and shrinks it, she said.

We are bathed in thousands of trace chemicals every day, yet we're still here to study them.