Sentences with phrase «under alkaline conditions»
Working on soil samples from a highly alkaline industrial site in the Peak District, which is not radioactive but does suffer from severe contamination with highly alkaline lime kiln wastes, they discovered specialist «extremophile» bacteria that thrive under the alkaline conditions expected in cement - based radioactive waste.
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The organisms are not only superbly adapted to live in the highly alkaline lime wastes, but they can use the ISA as a source of food and energy under conditions that mimic those expected in and around intermediate level radwaste disposal sites.
This is achieved by exfoliating pre-treated graphite under a highly alkaline condition to trigger flocculation, a process in which the graphene layers continuously cluster together to form graphene slurry without having to increase the volume of solvent.
A hydrogel treated with dopamine and iron ions is flat under neutral conditions (top photo) and bends in an alkaline state.
Given that it is performed under controlled conditions, we can use more alkaline solutions to improve the rate of capture without adversely affecting the biosphere.
On Earth, the most common way to form silica grains of this size is hydrothermal activity under a specific range of conditions; namely, when slightly alkaline and salty water that is super-saturated with silica undergoes a big drop in temperature.
Microelectrode measurements and pharmacological inhibitor studies carried out on larval stages demonstrated that maintenance of alkaline gastric pH represents a substantial energy sink under acidified conditions that may contribute up to 30 % to the total energy budget.
Useful enzymes and hormones must have precise alkaline conditions to be effective, whilst destructive enzymes, hormones and diseases thrive under acidic conditions.
But what we do know is that in the past, creatures in the ocean have survived and thrived under conditions that were less alkaline than those existing right now.
It is also known that, under anything like modern conditions, they are so powerfully buffered that alkaline they must remain.
In that work, they made a coral reef community's seawater chemistry more alkaline — essentially giving the reef an antacid — and demonstrated that the coral's ability to construct its architecture was improved under these conditions.