Sentences with phrase «volatile chemicals»

After all, he says, feces are full of volatile chemicals that predators could home in on.

Such a device could be used in homeland security applications to detect volatile chemicals and in medical diagnostics, such as a device to test blood - alcohol level.

To find their hosts, mosquitoes sense heat, CO2, moisture, and certain volatile chemicals; which cues they use depends on the species.

For example, they can walk through the halls of an ancient structure or conduct a science experiment without handling volatile chemicals.

This is because asparagus breaks down its constituents of ammonia and sulfur into volatile chemical compounds that actually help the body to detoxify.

Hash oil manufacturing, too, requires toxic and volatile chemicals like butane.

Products for making indoor air smell fresh or laundry smell clean may include volatile chemical compounds technically considered to be pollutants.

Studies indicate that diapers in landfills take up to 500 years to degrade, creating methane and other toxic gasses in the process, and their manufacture uses volatile chemicals that also end up in the eco-system.

Laboratory studies were conducted to test how well each new mixture in their liquid forms could absorb three harmful volatile chemicals.

The odor (or bouquet, to oenophiles) of that wine is composed of dozens of different volatile chemicals, and each chemical has several submolecular features.

Regardless of whether terrorists are sloppy or stupid, they do have a wide array of explosive tools at their disposal: from highly volatile chemical bombs manufactured from relatively common ingredients, such as the hexamethylene triperoxide diamine (HMTD) suspected in the foiled London terror plot, to the military grade plastic explosive Semtex.

Certain medications, chronic or recurrent nasal disease or exposure to various volatile chemicals can harm olfactory function.

[3] Radial variation of chemical species in the disc midplane composition, and specifically the locations of snowlines, are crucial for understanding the chemistry of nascent planets.The snowlines mark the boundary beyond which a particular volatile chemical species is frozen out onto dust grains.

Both species communicate information on sex and reproductive status via a complex combination of volatile chemicals found in a foul - smelling, orange - brown paste extruded from scent glands near the anus.

Titan's cold atmosphere means other volatile chemicals, like methane and ethane, exist as a liquid, whereas in Earth's temperate environment they are naturally found as a gas.

Often times, these wells and their associated infrastructure are within sight and earshot of people's homes, or even schools, hospitals, and other sensitive areas where people's health can be put at risk by the 24/7 noise, lighting, diesel fumes, dust, and volatile chemicals emanating from typical drilling sites:

In all, as many as 120 million Takata inflators in U.S. vehicles contain the same volatile chemical - ammonium nitrate - used in inflators that automakers have recalled, according to company documents reviewed by Reuters and verified by two former Takata managers.

«This was consistent with the idea that blossomed during the Origin of the Moon conference in Kona in 1984 — that the Moon formed by a giant impact with the still - growing Earth, leading to extensive loss of volatile chemicals.

Chewing a clove of garlic (or eating foods made with sliced or crushed cloves) releases a compound called allicin, which breaks down into volatile chemicals that are released into the stomach and bloodstream, and then out of the body through the breath.

From volatile chemicals to hostile enemies, the brave people who work in these high - stress fields rely on innovative personal protective equipment solutions from DuPont.

One of their flagship efforts is a lunar rover concept vehicle called Scarab, which may be the forebear to future generations of robots that will scour the moon for concentrations of hydrogen, water, and volatile chemicals that would be critical for supporting a lunar colony.

Volatile chemicals from the liquid are drawn high up into his nostrils, to the roof of his nasal cavity, the part specialized for smelling.

Thus, rather than having neurons that respond selectively to coffee or vanilla or Bordeaux, most individual cells (via their receptors) respond to submolecular features of the volatile chemicals coming from those objects.

In contrast, D. suzukii responds to the volatile chemicals emitted by freshly ripened fruits, and prefers the firm texture of their skins.

Oxygen is a volatile chemical that shouldn't stick around for long in space, and the team couldn't be sure that it wasn't coming from the spacecraft itself.

It turns out that one yeast gene in particular, called ATF1 for alcohol acetyl transferase, was responsible for the lion's share of those volatile chemicals.

Plants also have receptors that respond to volatile chemicals.

Entomologist William Lewis and his colleagues at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in Tifton, Georgia, wondered if the volatile chemicals released by the crops might alert wasps to an attack by this particular worm.

This action adventure is about two small - town residents (Cuba Gooding Jr. and Skeet Ulrich) who reluctantly become involved in a dangerous journey to deliver a volatile chemical substance to safety.

Most of both the bottom and top coat consists of volatile chemicals that will evaporate, leaving the polymerized coating behind.

You have smelled these organic compounds if you've ever smelled roadkill because as a cadaver decomposes, it releases a large variety of volatile chemicals.