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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online An international research group led by biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has filled a billion-year gap in our understanding of conditions in the early ocean during a critical time in the history of life on Earth. There is a general consensus in the scientific community currently that appreciable levels of oxygen first accumulated in the atmosphere around 2.4 to 2.3 billion years ago and that the build-up of...
North Carolina State University Life as we know it is based upon the elements of carbon and oxygen. Now a team of physicists, including one from North Carolina State University, is looking at the conditions necessary to the formation of those two elements in the universe. They’ve found that when it comes to supporting life, the universe leaves very little margin for error. Both carbon and oxygen are produced when helium burns inside of giant red stars. Carbon-12, an essential element...
Strategic partnership, proprietary production capability help set the pace PARIS, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Magna International Inc. announced that its Magna Exteriors and Interiors (MEI) operating unit, together with strategic development partner Zoltek, offers best-in-class capabilities in providing carbon fiber composite parts and systems for high-volume automotive applications to support automakers' lightweighting initiatives. MEI and Zoltek, the worldwide leading...
Innovative product developments crucial to sustain market growth MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Recreational boat builders are beginning to gain trust in composites that help reduce weight, create higher impact strength, enhance fuel efficiency and design flexibility for their vessels. As such, this has stimulated the global marine composite market. This market will continue to grow steadily as technological advancements reduce the cost of manufacturing marine...
John P. Millis, Ph.D. for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Where did we come from? It is the question that has faced scientists, theologians and philosophers for millennia. And even in this age of technology, we have yet to stumble across the answer. One of the challenges is that it seems that living cells are difficult to make. Not only are they relatively complex structures, but also putting them together in such a way as to put into motion a metabolic system that can take...
A discovery by USF and KAUST chemists could be a breakthrough in developing new tools for cleaner air and energy production. Chemists at the University of South Florida and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have discovered a more efficient, less expensive and reusable material for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and separation. The breakthrough could have implications for a new generation of clean-air technologies and offers new tools for confronting the world’s...
TOKYO, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, announced on March 5 the full-scale entry into NOx exhaust gas catalyst manufacturing with its unique high-performance zeolite AQSOA (TM) used in the SCR* System (hereinafter "SCR catalyst"). The SCR System is a means of converting NOx contained in exhaust gas into Nitrogen and water with the aid of DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid) or AdBlue. The market of this noteworthy technology is expected to expand...
FARMINGTON, Conn., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Growing environmental pollutions and increasing use of activated carbon to purge heavy metal residues in industrial pollutants are driving the global activated carbon market. Activated carbon markets are entering a period of fast growth. The next four years could see world consumption almost double. Enough new production capacity should be in place by 2017 to meet new demand, but the potential exists for a shortage. The corporate...
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Claims Hundreds of Lives Each Year, More than 15,000 Visit ERs WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Emergency physicians see the tragic consequences of carbon monoxide poisoning each year, especially during the winter months when people begin using heating devices and stoves to keep warm or use portable generators without proper ventilation. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100616/DC22034LOGO-d ) "This colorless, odorless...
“China Disposable Diaper Industry Report, 2012-2013”, “China Activated Carbon Industry Report, 2013-2015” and “China Inverter Welding and Cutting Equipment Industry Report, 2012-2014” are new reports available at ReportsnReports.com store. Dallas, Texas (PRWEB) February 17, 2013 According to consumer groups, disposable diapers are divided into baby disposable diapers and adult incontinence supplies. In 2011, Chinese disposable diaper market size reached RMB20.096 billion,...
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Ocean acidification is the name that was given to the ongoing decrease in the pH of Earth’s oceans, a cause of the uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. About 30 to 40 percent of the carbon dioxide that is released by humans into the atmosphere dissolves into the lakes, oceans, and rivers. To maintain the chemical equilibrium, some of it reacts with the water to create carbonic acid. Some of these extra carbonic acid molecules react with a water molecule to provide a...
Graphite (named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789, from the Greek γÏαφειν: "to draw/write", for its use in pencils) is one of the allotropes of carbon. Unlike diamond, graphite is a conductor, and can be used, for instance, as the material in the electrodes of an electrical arc lamp. Occurrence Associated minerals include: quartz, calcite, micas, iron meteorites and tourmalines. Notable occurrences include New York and Texas in the USA, Russia, Mexico, Greenland,...
