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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Carbon monoxide (CO) is called the 'Silent Killer' - it's odorless, colorless and tasteless, and is the #1 cause of accidental poisoning deaths in America. Carbon monoxide poisoning during power outages caused by Hurricane Sandy is being blamed for 12 deaths across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. In one accident that claimed the life of a 59 year old Trenton, NJ woman, the generator was left running overnight in the basement...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Climate change could cause soil to grow warmer and release additional carbon dioxide into the air, enhancing the effects of global warming, a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has discovered. The study, which was completed by scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH), the University of California-Davis (UC Davis), and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), provides new insight into how...
Lucintel Report Outlines Significant Growth Opportunities for Continuous Fiber Thermoplastic Industry Players during 2012-2017. Irving, TX (PRWEB) January 19, 2013 The continuous fiber thermoplastic (CFT) market is expected to reach US $191.8 million by 2017, with a CAGR of 8.6% over the next five years. CFT materials are used in a variety of markets such as transportation, sporting goods, industrial goods, aerospace, and ballistic, which have been the market drivers in the recent years,...
Lucintel’s Report Outlines Double-Digit Growth for Carbon Fiber Industry: Market to Reach $3 Billion in 2018 Irving, Texas (PRWEB) January 18, 2013 The global carbon fiber market is forecast to experience double-digit growth annually for the next five years in terms of dollars and pounds shipment respectively. In terms of dollar shipment, market is expected to reach $3.0 billion in 2018 from $1.8 billion in 2013. The industrial market is expected to witness annual double-digit growth...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A steep rise in the number of patents involving graphene, one of the thinnest, lightest, strongest and most conductive materials in the world, reveals a global race to harness the potential of this novel material. Graphene, which was identified only as recently as 2004, is harder than diamond, a single molecule thick, as flexible as rubber and much more conductive than copper, giving it tremendous potential for applications in...
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Reducing diesel engine emissions would reduce warming Black carbon is the second largest man-made contributor to global warming and its influence on climate has been greatly underestimated, according to the first quantitative and comprehensive analysis of this issue. The landmark study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres today says the direct influence of black carbon, or soot, on warming the climate could be about...
University of Southampton The University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) is pioneering research into developing the strongest silica nanofibres in the world. Globally the quest has been on to find ultrahigh strength composites, leading ORC scientists to investigate light, ultrahigh strength nanowires that are not compromised by defects. Historically, carbon nanotubes were the strongest material available, but high strengths could only be measured in very short...
News Release ASW: TSX.V VANCOUVER, Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Anglo Swiss Resources Inc. (ASW: TSX-V, ASWRF: PK) ("Anglo Swiss" or the "Company") is pleased to report several large electromagnetic (EM) conductors have been identified on its Blu Starr Flake Graphite property in southeast BC. Results are newly received from an airborne EM survey completed in late 2012. The Blu Starr property adjoins Eagle Graphite Corporation's flake graphite operation which is one of only two...
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif., Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Carbon Revolution, the Australian-based manufacturer of the world's first "one-piece" carbon fiber wheel, has successfully launched into North America and has signed on three master distributors in the United States to further support its sales activities. Owners of performance-oriented vehicles now have the opportunity to gain unparalleled weight savings, increased fuel efficiency and greater performance in acceleration, braking,...
Rayshell Clapper for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online According to Southern Methodist University paleontologists Timothy S. Myers, Louis L. Jacobs, and SMU sedimentary geologist Neil J. Tabor, the modern relationship between animals and vegetation is similar to millions of years ago. In their study, the SMU scientists used fossil soils from the Late Jurassic age gathered from locations where animal fossils were previously found to determine the levels of carbon isotopes. The team...
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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,...
