News tagged with ammonia
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What's Smelly But Can Fuel a Car?
Driving home from a seminar on fuel cell technology, Gerardine Botte was struck with a notion. Her idea was based on water electrolysis, a process used to produce hydrogen energy from water. Botte, an associate ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Hydrogen Storage Gets New Hope from Rechargeable 'Chemical Fuel Tank'
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new method for "recycling" hydrogen-containing fuel materials could open the door to economically viable hydrogen-based vehicles.
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Scientists Use Squid Ink to Draw its Jurassic Period Owner
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists digging in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in England have uncovered the fossilized remains of a prehistoric squid-like creature that lived in the Jurassic period around 150 million years ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 28, 2009 |
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New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst
(PhysOrg.com) -- To use hydrogen as a clean energy source, some engineers want to pack hydrogen into a larger molecule, rather than compressing the gas into a tank. A gas flows easily out of a tank, but getting ...
Aug 05, 2009 |
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New Images Indicate Object Hits Jupiter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found evidence that another object has bombarded Jupiter, exactly 15 years after the first impacts by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Hepatic encephalopathy and prehepatic portal hypertension rat model
Portal hypertension is responsible for severe and often lethal complications of cirrhosis. Another important syndrome is hepatic encephalopathy as a consequence of acute and chronic liver failure, which is characterized by ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 29, 2009 |
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The first global map of ammonia emissions measured from space
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first complete map of global ammonia emissions has recently been achieved using to satellite data. It reveals an underestimation of some of the ammonia concentrations detected by current ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Fertilizer industry finds its alternative energy: corncobs
American agriculture has become increasingly dependent on foreign sources of natural gas, a key ingredient in the nitrogen fertilizer that farmers use to get high yields of crops such as corn and wheat.
Jun 18, 2009 |
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High-pressure compound could be key to hydrogen-powered vehicles
A hydrogen-rich compound discovered by Stanford researchers is packed with promise of helping overcome one of the biggest hurdles to using hydrogen for fuel--namely, how do you stuff enough hydrogen into a volume that is ...
May 11, 2009 |
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New method monitors critical bacteria in wastewater treatment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new technique using sensors to constantly monitor the health of bacteria critical to wastewater treatment facilities and have verified a theory that copper is ...
Biology /
Feb 04, 2009 |
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