Sentences with phrase «useful chemicals with»

Not exact matches

Kinetic chemical synthesis may also allow for nanothreads with mixed diamond and graphite - like bonding that that could have useful semiconducting properties.

That small size, along with their rigid, sturdy structure and high chemical purity, give them useful properties that larger diamonds lack.

Now researchers in the US have discovered how to modify cyclodextrins to take other chemical groups, opening the way to making related compounds with useful new properties.

This makes them useful in mining operations as an environmentally friendly alternative to leaching the metals with toxic chemicals.

In addition to its common use in vehicle catalytic converters, rhodium is also used in combination with other metals to efficiently drive a wide range of useful chemical reactions.

Very few of these will be useful because enzymes have to be an exact fit for the chemical they react with, just as a lock can only be opened by a specific key.

And although the suggestion that citizens keep duct tape and plastic sheeting on hand was much reviled when made in 2003 by then Secretary for Homeland Security Tom Ridge, Acquista believes it would be useful in a chemical attack to seal a refuge with tape and sheeting until the danger passes, because «most chemicals dissipate very rapidly.»

«You can react it with water to produce energy - rich hydrogen gas, or with hydrogen to produce useful chemicals, such as hydrocarbons or alcohols.

This process has created new, stable nanoparticles with useful applications in the chemical and energy industries, the researchers said.

They dunked mosquito larvae in a pool of water mixed with a chemical called Tween 20, which is useful because it's not toxic and is commonly found in detergents, cosmetics, and hard candy.

He said silver nanoparticles would be impractical in a real well, but because they're easy to modify with other useful chemicals, they are good models for custom nanoparticles.

The study is «a useful step in this effort to develop fully functional tissues with blood vessels,» says chemical engineer Abraham Stroock of Cornell University, who also works on engineering blood vessels in tissue using different techniques.

Importantly, the method works even for chemical elements present at very low concentrations, some of which are particularly useful for unveiling magma history with unprecedented detail.

Numerous recent articles, including some patent applications, deal with the identification of compounds belonging to diverse chemical classes, claiming to inhibit CXCR4, thus, potentially useful for a broad clinical application.

But adaptogens are infinitely useful nonetheless, because they perform in a way that no pharmaceutical drug does: They're nontoxic, mostly side effectâ $ «free, and — get this — they help your body counter physical, chemical, or biological stress, says David Winston, the eminent herbal educator, in his book Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina and Stress Relief (cowritten with Steven Maimes, Healing Arts Press, 2007).

The reason that we've been duped, according to Sam Lemonick, a former employee of the American Chemical Society, which publishes the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, is that curcumin does very well in screening tests that show how a molecule interacts with proteins implicated in various health problems that could — but don't always — show how the molecule might be useful.

Those results are very promising for pineapples; inflammation is useful for wound healing but when inflammatory chemicals are too over-the-top, the wound healing becomes delayed with chronic redness and pain.

We're committed to providing you with the finest natural ingredients that have useful properties, rather than harmful chemicals or any other harsh ingredients that strip or dehydrate instead of caring for your hair.

The chemical extracted from the plant is so strong that must be mixed with another oil to be useful.

This electric energy can thus not be compared on a 1:1 basis with the chemical energy in fossil fuels without taking into account the conversion efficiency of both forms of energy into a useful form (kinetic energy in this case).

«With our innovative toilet system, we can use simpler and cheaper methods of harvesting the useful chemicals and even produce fuel and energy from waste.

In the study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the researchers were interested in coming up with ways to recycle CO2 into things that can be useful and reduce its effects on the environment.