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During the Earth Day town hall meeting in Conway, AR, at the Faulkner County Natural Resources Center, Founder and CEO, Scott C. Smith, gave a keynote address revealing preliminary results that the water column testing throughout Lake Conway showed positive readings for spilled Canadian tar sands oil and related solvents. Mayflower, AR (PRWEB) April 26, 2013 The presence of spilled Canadian tar sands oil or bitumen in Lake Conway appears to be from the March 29, 2013 ExxonMobil Pegasus...
LAS VEGAS, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Rimrock Gold Corp. (OTCQB: RMRK) (the "Company"), is pleased to announce that its contractor Zonge Engineering has completed a new Controlled Source Audio Magnetotelluric ("CSAMT") geophysical resistivity survey on the Company's wholly-owned Rimrock gold-silver project in Elko County, Nevada. The Rimrock property is strategically located in a highly-mineralized epithermal gold-silver district, 7 Km northwest of Rodeo Creek Gold's Hollister...
DUBLIN, Ireland, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Oil and Chemicals Storage Industry Outlook in Middle East and Africa, 2013 - Capacity Analysis, Forecasts and Details of All Operating and Planned Storage Terminals to 2017 [http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/gb5rjc/oil_and_chemicals ]" report to their offering. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130307/600769 ) Oil and Chemicals Storage...
Tuscan olive oil advocacy group Flavor Your Life issues a statement detailing the history of olive oil and its prevalence in the Mediterranean diet. Bohemia, NY (PRWEB) April 25, 2013 On April 25, Tuscan extra virgin olive oil advocacy group Flavor Your Life releases a statement outlining the history of olive oil and how it became an essential part of the Mediterranean diet. According to Flavor Your Life’s publication, The History of Olive Oil, the olive tree is a plant native to the...
Scientists and stakeholders to find solutions at meeting in Washington, D.C. TEMPE, Ariz., April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Phosphorus Sustainability Research Coordination Network (RCN) kicks off its first meeting in Washington, D.C. May 14-16 to address ongoing challenges in producing a sustainable global phosphorus system. This is the first of five annual meetings of the Phosphorus Sustainability RCN designed to connect scientists and stakeholders across the world to find...
ST. LOUIS, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Arch Coal, Inc. (NYSE: ACI) today declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.03 per share on the company's common stock. The dividend is payable June 14, 2013 to shareholders of record on May 31, 2013. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120727/CG47668LOGO) U.S.-based Arch Coal, Inc. is one of the world's top coal producers for the global steel and power generation industries, serving customers in 25...
BEIJING, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation ("Sinopec Corp." or "the Company") (CH: 600028; HKEX: 386; NYSE: SNP; LSE: SNP) today announced its unaudited first quarter results for the three months ended 31 March 2013. Financial Highlights: In accordance with the China Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises ("ASBE"), in Q1 2013, the Company's operating income was RMB 695.571 billion, up 3.61% over the same period of last year, and...
DUBLIN, Ireland, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Oil and Gas Pipelines Industry Outlook in Middle East and Africa, 2013 - Details of Operating and Planned Crude Oil, Petroleum Products and Natural Gas Pipelines" report to their offering. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130307/600769 ) Oil and Gas Pipelines Industry Outlook in Middle East and Africa, 2013 - Details of Operating and Planned Crude...
University of California, Riverside A research team of biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has provided a new view on the relationship between the earliest accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere, arguably the most important biological event in Earth history, and its relationship to the sulfur cycle. A general consensus exists that appreciable oxygen first accumulated in Earth's atmosphere around 2.4 to 2.3 billion years ago. Though this paradigm is built upon a...
HOUSTON, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NBL) announced today first quarter 2013 net income of $261 million, or $1.45 per share diluted, and net income from continuing operations((1)) of $232 million, or $1.28 per share diluted. Excluding the impact of unrealized commodity derivatives losses and certain other items, first quarter 2013 adjusted net income from continuing operations((2)) was $269 million, or $1.48 per share diluted. During the first quarter...
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Acid rain is any form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that is possesses high levels of hydrogen ions. It can have harmful effects on aquatic animals, plants, and infrastructure. Acid rain is caused by emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, which react with the water molecules within the atmosphere to produce acids. Nitrogen oxides can be produced naturally by lightening strikes. Sulfur dioxide can be produced naturally by volcanic eruptions. The chemicals that are...
Physics is a natural science involving the study of matter and its motion through space-time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. On a broader scale, it also involves the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves. Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines, perhaps the oldest through its inclusion of astronomy. Physics was part of natural philosophy until the Scientific Revolution in the 16th century, when the natural...
Aerosol spray is a dispensing system that creates an aerosol mist of liquid particles. The liquid is usually contained in a bottle under liquid pressure that is released when the valve is opened. As the gas in the can expands to drive out the liquid some of the propellant evaporates to maintain an even pressure. Erick Rotheim invented the first aerosol spray can in 1926. Lyle Goodhue and William Sullivan were the first to put it to good use and are credited as the inventors of the modern...
Fermium is a synthetic, radioactive metallic element. It has the symbol Fm and atomic number 100. It is an element in the actinide series. It is named after nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi. Fermium became the eighth transuranic (having an atomic number greater than 92) element discovered. It was first discovered in 1952 by a team of scientists led by Albert Ghiorso. They found fermium-255 in debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion from Operation Ivy. Fermium-255 was created when...
Europium is a chemical element with the symbol Eu and atomic number 63. Europium is named after the continent Europe. It is the most reactive of the rare earth elements. It rapidly oxidizes in air. Europium ignites in the air at around 302 degrees Fahrenheit. It is quite pliable (bendable). Although it was first discovered by Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1890, it is usually credited to French chemist Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, who suspected samples of the discovered samarium...
