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Melamine has no nutritional value, but its chemical makeup can cause animal feed to appear higher in protein. Not everyone was overly concerned about some cats and dogs getting sick from Chinese wheat gluten. (West Frankfort Daily American, IL)
KAG Ethanol Logistics Enters Into Alliance with Manly Terminal LLC in Iowa Jun 29, 2007
Unlike petroleum products such as oil and natural gas, ethanol cannot be distributed through pipelines due to its chemical makeup and attraction to water. As a result, ethanol moves from production to market by utilizing truck, rail and barge transportation services along with transload/storage facilities. (PR Newswire)
Geophysicists Detect A Molten Rock Layer Deep Below The American Southwest Jun 22, 2007
But seismic waves don't tell scientists much about rocks' chemical makeup, or about minor elements they contain, or their various mineral phases. Scientists need a different method to study mantle rocks that change composition as they shed water at 410 kilometers' depth and become partly molten in the process. (Science Daily)
New Screening Method To Help Find Better Biofuel Crops Jun 9, 2007
By analyzing the scattered light with a spectrometer (spectroscope), Smith can easily and quickly determine the chemical makeup of the plant material. A fiber optic bundle placed between the microscope and the spectrometer allows a direct measure of the chemical makeup at any location on the sample being viewed on the microscope. (Science Daily)
Encinitas beaches reopen after fuel spill off coast Jun 5, 2007
The chemical makeup of fuel is unique to each vessel, Bosma said. As fuel sits in the tank of a ship, it collects traces of various metals to create a unique "chemical fingerprint," authorities have said. (North County Times)
Why Is Corn Syrup In So Many Foods? May 26, 2007
It's a matter of chemical makeup -- HFCS was developed by changing cornstarch into glucose (blood sugar) and then into fructose (fruit sugar). However, the ratio of those two sugars can be manipulated. (Click2Houston, TX)
Chocolate Toothpaste? Extract Of Tasty Treat Could Fight Tooth Decay May 20, 2007
The extract, a white crystalline powder whose chemical makeup is similar to caffeine, helps harden teeth enamel, making users less susceptible to tooth decay. The cocoa extract could offer the first major innovation to commercial toothpaste since manufacturers began adding fluoride to toothpaste in 1914. (Science Daily)
Drivers not cutting back much as gas prices soar above $3 a gallon, and toward $4 in some areas May 19, 2007
Also, he said, the process of turning crude oil into gasoline has become more complicated over the years, particularly as different governmental entities have mandated changes to the chemical makeup of gasoline for environmental reasons. It takes more equipment, more complicated processes and more oil to make gasoline now than it used to, Drevna said. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Study links low-level sarin gas exposure to brain damage May 18, 2007
White and other researchers studied 26 Gulf war veterans, half of whom were exposed to the gases, according to a Department of Defense modeling of the likely chemical makeup and location of the plume. In a companion study, the researchers also tested 140 troops believed to have experienced differing degrees of exposure to the chemical agents to check their fine motor coordination, and found a direct relation between performance level and the level of potential exposure. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Study funded by US cites possible nerve gas link to Gulf War ills May 17, 2007
White and other researchers studied 26 Gulf War veterans, half of whom were exposed to the gases, according to a Department of Defense modeling of the likely chemical makeup and location of the plume. The researchers found that troops with greater potential exposure had less white matter. (Boston Globe)
State's Flex-Fuel Policy A Sham, Critics Say May 17, 2007
Transporting ethanol to the Northeast is difficult because its chemical makeup precludes shipping it through existing pipelines. It's most often distributed by truck, Hart said. (FOX61, CT)
Motorists unfazed by climbing gas prices May 16, 2007
Anchorage Daily News. " But that usually means people have to cut back elsewhere, as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is finding, to its distress. The world's largest retailer said Tuesday that earnings in the current quarter will fall short of Wall Street expectations, in part because of higher gas prices. Weekly gasoline demand in April increased as much as 1.9 percent over the same weeks in 2006, even as the average national price of a gallon of gasoline grew from $2.71 to $2.97 by the end of the month,... (Anchorage Daily News)
Quick primer on figuring out distance of light from supernovas May 16, 2007
So astronomers can check out light from a distance from a distant object with a spectroscope and measure what they call its "red shift." The spectroscope can also tell them a lot about the chemical makeup of an object, but that's another story. Next, you apply Hubble's Law. (AZCentral -- News)
Eureka! Oxygen in space May 5, 2007
Scientists say it's a giant leap forward in understanding the chemical makeup of interstellar clouds and the birth of stars and planets. "It was a very weak signal," said Dr. Christine Wilson, who teaches physics and astronomy at McMaster. (Hamilton Spectator)
Time for Spring Cleaning May 3, 2007
The good news is that the Environmental Protection Agency and the American Lung Association have done extensive research on the chemical makeup of the most commonly used cleaners, and the findings are worth noting. For example, when sodium hypochlorite, a key ingredient in chlorine bleach, is mixed with ammonia, a toxic gas is released that may cause mild asthmatic symptoms or more serious respiratory problems. (Fox News)
How Urbanization Can Affect Lakes Apr 29, 2007
The lake districts make ideal environmental laboratories because ecological change tends to be reflected in the biological communities and chemical makeup of the lakes. With different kinds of development and human pressures in play, the districts are changing in markedly different ways. (Science Daily)
Edmonton stockpiles ginseng extract for essential staff Apr 26, 2007
Its supplement contains oligosaccharides and polysaccharides - chemical molecules found to stimulate the immune system - from North American ginseng, and has been standardized through a process that identifies the chemical makeup of the product. Search the News Search. (Globe and Mail)
When chemistry meets culture: Scientists helping save rare art Apr 23, 2007
After the sample is analyzed, it's exact chemical makeup is displayed on the computer screen. When chemistry meets culture: Scientists helping save rare art. (USA Today -- Tech)
Chemistry puts the color back in art Apr 21, 2007
After the sample is analyzed, its exact chemical makeup is displayed on the computer screen. Once we clean the piece, we really want it to look as it did the day it left Leutzes studio, Kornhauser said. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Celestial Fender-Bender Left Asteroid To Cool Without Insulation Apr 20, 2007 Scientists confirm T. rex link to chooks Apr 13, 2007 T-rex proteins: like chicken Apr 13, 2007 Arts Center hosts exhibition workshop Apr 13, 2007 HPU looks for cures in sea life Mar 27, 2007 BYU Scientists Create Portable Spectrometer Mar 27, 2007 'Elemental Fingerprinting' Traces Origins Of Marine Creatures Mar 23, 2007 Cars ranked by chemical content Mar 22, 2007 Trans-fat battle claims another victim: Butter Mar 11, 2007 Atomic microscopy offers chemical ID Mar 3, 2007 Robotic Exploration of Mars Mar 3, 2007 Troubles will keep following NASCAR Feb 20, 2007 Nanotechnology meets biology and DNA finds its groove Feb 9, 2007 Hubble Probes Layer-cake Structure Of Alien World's Atmosphere Feb 1, 2007 Hubbles Main Camera Fails Jan 31, 2007 Seeing the Medicine in Chinese Herbs through the Random Forest Jan 28, 2007 Genome sweet genome Jan 25, 2007 Blood-pressure drug could also treat muscle disease Jan 22, 2007 City to conduct new lead tests Jan 20, 2007 What goes around ... Jan 7, 2007
Roughly 60 meteorites retrieved from around the world have the chemical makeup of the IVA irons, suggesting that they were all part of one metallic asteroid that broke up about 450 million years ago and then fell to earth in pieces. Scientists have proposed several theories over the decades to rationalize the varying cooling rates seen in IVA meteorites. (Science Daily)
T. rex thigh reveals chicken family ties Apr 14, 2007
For his study, Asara used a highly sensitive technology called mass spectrometry to determine the chemical makeup of bone fragments provided by Schweitzer and her team. He first had to purify the bone extract, which came in the form of a gritty brown powder that remained after minerals were extracted. (CNN -- Science)
For his study, Mr Asara used a highly sensitive technology called mass spectrometry to determine the chemical makeup of bone fragments provided by Ms Schweitzer and her team. He first had to purify the bone extract, which came in the form of a gritty brown powder that remained after minerals were extracted. (ABC News Online, Australia)
The researchers submitted samples of the material extracted by Schweitzer to an examination by mass spectroscopy, which breaks down material to its component parts to determine its mass and chemical makeup. The technology is applied in medical research to analyzing more precisely the nature of disease-causing agents. (International Herald Tribune)
Van Dyke - a process very similar to Cyanotype that varies in chemical makeup producing instead brown and black tone prints. The Black Hills Pioneer, Newspapers, South Dakota, SD 2007. (Black Hills Pioneer, SD)
Chemical makeup of effective compounds is analyzed at HPU's Windward Hawaii Loa campus using mass and magnetic resonance spectrometers. Horgen's team identified cyanobacteria in a species of blue-green algae as the source of the chemical used to develop the chemotherapy drug dolastatin 14. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
The mass spectrometer analyzes the chemical makeup of a substance. BYU researchers have created a portable version of large, heavy lab equipment that the military, city governments, and civilian companies want to buy. (The Daily Universe, UT)
By analyzing the chemical makeup within the shells in each larval home and the corresponding seawater, the researchers were able to construct a reference map in which each of the locations could be individually identified with a distinct chemical signature. Several weeks later the researchers returned to each site and collected week-old juvenile mussels, typically less than two millimeters in size, in an effort to investigate whether they traveled there from near or far sites. (Science Daily)
Car guide ranks models by chemical makeup. Group ties 'new car smell' to health issues; industry challenges implication. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Walter Willet of the Harvard School of Public Health said the chemical makeup "of specific trans fatty acids in dairy fat is different than in industrial partially hydrogenated trans fat, so it is possible that the effects are different.". In his original paper on trans fat in 1993, which is largely credited for revolutionizing thinking on partially hydrogenated oils, Willet found that the increased risk of heart disease was associated with the amount of industrial trans fats people ate. (Taipei Times)
OSAKA, Japan (UPI) -- Japanese scientists say they`ve discovered it is possible to use atomic force microscopy to identify the chemical makeup of individual surface atoms. Atomic force microscopy works by measuring the short-range forces that occur between a tiny tip and the atoms on the surface of a sample, allowing the structure of that surface to be imaged with atomic resolution. (Monsters and Critics.com)
The mission of the was to map the chemical makeup and mineral composition of the planet's surface. Specific mission objectives included determining the extent of ice deposits in the shallow subsurface, mapping the elemental makeup of the entire surface of Mars, capturing high-resolution thermal infrared images of surface minerals, learning more about the structure of the surface, and recording low-orbit radiation levels for human exploration risk assessment. (Suite101.com)
Its composition and chemical makeup are secrets as closely guarded as the true innards of the NASCAR rulebook. And as is always the case when a hush-hush is attempted to be kept in the garage area, there are many opinions on what it is and why its characteristics have not been made public. (Pensacola News Journal)
Scientists, Schwartz explains, already know how to take DNA and stiffen it by removing salts from its chemical makeup. But confining the molecule and presenting it for analysis is laborious, engaging armies of lab techs worldwide to prepare DNA samples for their moment in the lab. (EurekAlert!)
The planet's transits allow astronomers to analyze the structure and chemical makeup of the gas giant's atmosphere by sampling the starlight that passes through it ... These landmark studies provided the first detection of the chemical makeup of an extrasolar planet's atmosphere. (Science Daily)
The instrument is used for high resolution studies in visible and ultraviolet light of both nearby star systems and distant galaxies, providing information about the motions and chemical makeup of stars, planetary atmospheres, and other galaxies. For more information, visit. (Photonics.com)
A group of researchers at King's College London decided to use a computer screening to construct a single database both to catalogue the chemical makeup of 240 species of herb and to indicate which target enzymes and receptors implicated in diseases such as HIV/AIDS, cancer and Alzheimer's disease those components may be able to regulate. ADVERTISEMENT (article continues below). (Scientific American)
The announcement signifies a new era in diagnosing and detecting diseases through the chemical makeup of the human body, Wishart said. He added he hopes Canada can maintain control of the project and prevent it from being taken over by U.S. researchers. (Edmonton Sun)
In Marfan syndrome, the chemical makeup of connective tissue _ the substance and support of tendons, ligaments, blood-vessel walls, cartilage and heart valves _ is abnormal and leaves those structures weakened. Last year, a team led by Dr. Harry Dietz discovered that treating Marfan mice with the drug losartan, or Cozaar, dramatically strengthens the aorta, the major artery carrying blood away from the heart. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
In addition to the new testing -- which Baker said is likely to begin early in June, as soon as possible under EPA regulations -- the city will turn over data on the chemical makeup of water drawn from various points in the Water Management Department's treatment and distribution network. The city also will brief regulators on chemicals added to water to keep pipes from corroding and conduct a series of public-education efforts to alert the public to the dangers of lead, which among other things... (Herald Sun)
The belt moves the material through the sorting process, where items that can't be recycled -- household garbage that mistakenly got lumped in with the newspapers and milk jugs -- are removed from the stream by hand, and plastics are sorted by their resin, or chemical makeup ... The value of recyclable plastic depends on its chemical makeup, which is denoted by a number, 1 through 7. (Boston Globe -- Local)
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