Sentences with phrase «use of chemical agents»

Killing fleas often involves the use of chemical agents.

Statement from ACS and the American Chemistry Council (ACC) condemning the continued use of chemical agents as weapons against the citizens of Syria.

We at Colgate Mattress Atlanta want to assure you, our customers, that we have never used any of these chemical agents in the manufacture of our crib mattresses.

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«We are prepared to sustain this response until the Syrian regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents,» the U.S. president said in a televised address.

The Organisation for the Protection of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) released analysis on Thursday supporting the conclusion of British military scientists that a Russian - made nerve agent was used on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury last month.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an international watchdog group, has confirmed that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned using a military - grade nerve agent called Novichok.

MOSCOW (Sputnik)-- The use of 50 - 100 grams of A234 nerve agent in UK's Salisbury would have killed the city, which calls into question the use of this substance against former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, Leonid Rink, one of the developers of chemical weapons program, dubbed Novichok in the West, told Sputnik.

More than 100 Russian diplomats alleged to be spies in western countries have been told to return to Moscow, in response to the use of a chemical weapon in the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal, a former Russia / UK double agent, and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England on 4 March.

The Real Bread Campaign has strict definitions when it comes to sourdough dough and notes it must be made only using a live sourdough culture (not inactive dried dourdough powder), without the use of processing aids or any artificial additives (which includes most flour «improvers», dough conditioners and preservatives), chemical leavening agents (eg, baking powder) or other souring agents (eg, vinegar or yogurt).

A good rule of thumb, I found, doesn't use chemical agents on most stroller covers.

After perusing a long list of popular rating sites that attract moms eager to learn all they can about breastfeeding, we found Lansinoh to be the most - often mentioned because they can be used with a variety of pumps, the plastic content has no harmful chemical agents and even the pour spout seems to get rave reviews.

No doubt some consumers do fear the use of ammonium - hydroxide to process their food, but nothing in the wording of my Change.org petition or my writing or speaking about this issue has ever once sought to confuse the public by associating this chemical with the cleaning agent you keep under your sink.

Not only that, but the pesticides used are some of the most hazardous ones out there and all of the earth - destructing chemicals used to grow conventional cotton fabric, they are often further processed with other destructive agents.

Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;

Also, Russian officials claim that while the Russian chemical weapons program and everything connected to it had been verifiably destroyed under foreign supervision, other countries like the UK, Slovakia, Sweden and the Czech Republic have carried out «intense research» on nerve agents like «Novichok» until today and are likely to possess samples of these substances (Which would be of interest if «Novichok» was indeed the poison used in the attack).

The report comes at a time when Corbyn has been attacked over what critics say is his unwillingness to criticise Russia over the Salisbury nerve agent attack and the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

White House officials acknowledged that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale a number of times.

Washington (CNN)- The White House acknowledged Thursday the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale a number of times, according to a statement.

May says it is very clear that the use of this nerve agent goes against the spirit of the chemical weapons treaty.

The White House said Thursday that the U.S. believes «with some degree of varying confidence» the Syrian government has used chemical weapons — specifically the nerve agent sarin — against its own people.

We have also notified the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons about Russia's use of this nerve agent.

No explanation as to how this agent came to be used in the United Kingdom; no explanation as to why Russia has an undeclared chemical weapons programme in contravention of international law.

There's a long list of steps being taken: a new offence of possessing «paedophilic manuals»; a strengthening of sentencing guidelines for computer hacking operations; new powers to seize and destroy chemical substances suspected of being used as cutting agents for illegal drugs.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has confirmed the UK's findings that the novichok nerve agent was used.

The committee had been instrumental in embarrassing the coalition government over its decision to allow the sale of chemicals that could have been used for nerve agent weapons in Syria.

The researchers then used two highly specific chemical agents to block the specific functions of those proteins.

Secondly, they are used in all kinds of chemical compounds, such as those in floor cleaners as oxidizing agents that kill bacteria,» Jena said.

So are natural styles that avoid chemicals and the use of frequent moisturization with conditioning agents.

PCB - 153 belongs in a group of chemical components called Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), which were profusely used in several types of industrial equipment, such as electric transformers, industrial condensers, hydraulic systems, sealing agents in construction, pesticides, and even as components in plastic materials,» according to Arrebola.

He and his group now plan to enhance still further the resolution attainable with their cryo - electron microscope, and will then use it to investigate the structures of ribosomes that have been brought to a halt by other chemical agents.

The lab's analysis of KOD for use as a hemostat, or clotting agent, appears this month in the American Chemical Society journal Biomacromolecules.

The increased use of synthetic chemicals, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals to attack unwanted organisms, has outpaced the rates of change in rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations and other agents of global environmental change over the past 45 years, a new Duke - led analysis reveals.

Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is a set of methods that use external fluids such as gas and soluble agents like water to recover the oil can not be extracted by conventional means and is divided into four main groups: thermal, chemical, miscible gas injection and microbial.

The chemical is a modified form of a surfactant or wetting agent commonly used in engines.

«Using broadly tunable laser sources rather than the fixed wavelength source used in this paper can extend this method to detection of other hydrocarbons, threat materials such as chemical warfare agents and explosives, and other biologically important substances used in healthcare and diagnostics,» said Hempler.

FDA also claimed that the splitting agent used to fragment the virus, sodium taurodeoxycholate (TDOC), had failed a test to confirm the identity of the chemical.

In particular, the environmental, chemical and medical samples we have collected, provide clear and convincing evidence that surface - to - surface rockets containing the nerve agent sarin were used... in the Ghouta area of Damascus.

A team of U.N. inspectors has found «clear and convincing evidence» that a chemical weapons attack using the nerve agent sarin killed a large number of civilians near Damascus on 21 August.

He filled out an order form for all the chemicals needed to make sarinthe nerve agent used by the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo in its 1994 and 1995 attacksand two of its relatives, soman and GF.

The researchers are now working on sensors that could be used to monitor other biological properties, such as pH. «We hope this is the first of many types of solid - state contrast agents where the material responds to its chemical environment in such a way that we can detect it by MRI,» Cima says.

The chemical rapamycin is used clinically as an immunosuppressant and as an anti-cancer agent that works by inactivating a protein named TOR (Target Of Rapamycin).

The United States, France and Britain remain convinced Douma was the subject of a chemical attack on April 7, basing their claims on open - source information and their own intelligence, which they said suggests chlorine and possibly a nerve agent, maybe sarin, were used.

Just as an aside, we don't know the nature of the recent alleged chemical attack in Syria, and the chemical used in the Emory experiments is not a «weaponized» nerve agent such as Sarin.

«There is the possibility that one could use the hollow spheres as a means of chemical delivery agents, or microscopic containers of some kind, but some more work would need to be done here just to check what happens inside the spheres, in terms of sample heating,» said David McGloin, a physicist at the University of Dundee in the U.K. not connected with the Australian team.

Other uses of new chemical technologies include tracers and reporters for geomapping and well connectivity, as well as different types of fluid loss agents that prevent formation damage or keep well integrity, and smart and stimuli - responsive nanoparticles that can be used for improving gelation.

As part of a «Body on a Chip» project funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, scientists at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, in collaboration with partners from around the country, are developing miniature hearts, livers, blood vessels and lungs that will be used to predict the effects of chemical and biologic agents and used to test the effectiveness of potential treatments.

New volatile organic compounds used in construction and industry have now been recognised, along with other agents, such as sulphites, chlorates, isocyanates and many other chemicals already known to be potentially toxic, as causes of chronic asthma.

The fact that a new, previously unknown nerve agent has been used against a signatory of the CWC may eventually mean that this chemical, and closely related analogues, ought to be listed in the schedules of highly restricted chemicals under the CWC.

As anyone who has ever tried to substitute in a cookie recipe knows, sodium bicarbonate is not the same as baking powder (also often used in baking) as baking powder contains cream of tartar, the acid or leavening agent that makes creates the chemical reaction when mixed with water.

Instead of using chemical whitening agents on the skin, a safer option is to balance the hormones.