A nanofiber catalyst made of manganese oxide is used to speed up chemical reactions and remove volatile organic compounds from industrial smokestacks (UnderstandingNano, 2007). The University of Queensland experimented with another popular nanomaterial, carbon nanotubes (CNT), to trap greenhouse gas emis...
(Bangs laboratories, Ø =3 μm) were washed 2 times with NPF dilution buffer (20 mM Hepes pH 7.0, 100 mM KCl, 1 mM EDTA, 1.5 mM MgCl2, 0.2 mg/mL β-casein, 5 mM β-mercaptoethanol) at 4 °C and spun at 8000 g for 1 min to remove bead storage ...
About half of the marshes along Mobile Bay have disappeared in the last 200 years. A number of factors—ranging from dams along rivers holding backsedimentthat build the marshes to sea level rise drowning them—contribute to this. "Marshes have this amazing capacity to permanently remove nitrogen...
The idea of planting trees in vast areas to removecarbon dioxidefrom the air and reduce the impact ofclimate change, for example, has attracted a lot of attention, with some claiming it's the best "low-hanging fruit" approach to pursue, McElwee said. But large-scale tree planting could ...
dangerous chemicals or substances may make up justone part in a billionof water particles. For instance, a typical sewage works may have to identify and remove just a single raindrop's worth of benzene, a known carcinogen commonly found in laundry detergents, from a tank of toilet waste the...
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A US technology firm is hoping to make a very old idea finally work by launching self-heating drinks cans. HeatGenie recently received US$6m to bring their can design to market in 2018, more than 15 years after Nestle abandoned a similar idea. Yet the pr
ECDElectrochemical Deburring(process to remove burrs from metals) ECDEnvironmental Carcinogenesis Division(US EPA) ECDEarth Crust Displacement ECDElectronic Controls Design, Inc(Milwaukie, Oregon) ECDEngineering Change Document ECDEvaluation Criteria Document(IEEE) ...
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We reviewed the literature on strategies to control dissemination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB), antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) and mobile genetic elements (MGE) in the environment. Methods This systematic review focused on three main strategies: (i) restriction of antibiotic use (S1), ...