News tagged with inorganic contaminant

Sunlight shines on clean energy future: Simple inorganic semiconductor - silver orthophosphate - used to oxidize water

(PhysOrg.com) -- The production of clean energy and the treatment of waste water are set to become easier thanks to Australian National University researchers.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Purer water made possible by Sandia advance

By substituting a single atom in a molecule widely used to purify water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a far more effective decontaminant with a shelf life superior to products currently ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1




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Sandia Labs technology used in Fukushima cleanup

(Phys.org) -- A Sandia National Laboratories technology has been used to remove radioactive material from more than 43 million gallons of contaminated wastewater at Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...

Chemistry / Other

created May 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Evidence of banned antibiotics in poultry products found

In a joint study, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Arizona State University found evidence suggesting that a class of antibiotics previously banned by the U.S. government for poultry ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Diamond light, brighter than the sun

It’s the size of five football pitches and generates light 10 billion times brighter than the sun. As the Diamond Light Source celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, Penny Bailey visits one of the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Creation of database for promising adsorbents for decontamination of radioactive substances from nuclear power plants

(PhysOrg.com) -- NIMS is collecting basic data on natural minerals produced in various regions and inorganic materials with different chemical compositions as a tool for selecting suitable materials, and will make this information ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Meteorites from 2008 TC3 still giving up their secrets

It was an unprecedented event: On October 6, 2008, asteroid 2008 TC3 was spotted by the Catalina Sky Survey Telescope in Arizona. Plotting its trajectory, astronomers knew the 80-ton rock was heading for a ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

How algae use a 'sulfate trap' to selectively biomineralize strontium

(PhysOrg.com) -- In any kind of nuclear reactor, there is a small amount of the radioactive isotope strontium-90 that is formed as part of the regular fission process. In fact, fission products such as strontium-90 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New material shows promise for trapping pollutants

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water softening techniques are very effective for removing minerals such as calcium and magnesium, which occur as positively-charged ions in "hard" water. But many heavy metals and other inorganic ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Air-quality researchers tackle health implications of ultra-fine particles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three studies by a University of California, Davis, air-quality research group are adding to the growing body of data suggesting that very fine and ultra-fine airborne metal particles are closely linked to ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Countering contamination for Mars spacesuits

To search for life on Mars, future astronauts would naturally want to step outside their living habitat for a walk. But the spacesuits keeping them alive might also carry Earth microbes or ingredients of life ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Bacterial genome may hold answers to mercury mystery

A newly sequenced bacterial genome from a team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could contain clues as to how microorganisms produce a highly toxic form of mercury.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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