News tagged with oxidation state

A different kind of mine disaster

The world's largest antimony mine has become the world's largest laboratory for studying the environmental consequences of escaped antimony -- an element whose environmental and biological properties are still ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Ozone detection

Researchers in Freiburg, Germany, have developed a highly-sensitive, miniaturized mobile ozone sensor which can be used not only in air, but also in water and in the vicinity of explosive gases.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists Show How Bacteria Move Electrons Across a Membrane

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of East Anglia, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Pennsylvania State University have demonstrated for the first time the mechanism by which some bacteria ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

PhD student solves decade-long mystery of magnetism

(PhysOrg.com) -- A PhD student from the London Centre for Nanotechnology has won a prize for solving a decade-long mystery central to understanding modern magnetic systems.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (33) | comments 3

Researchers Identify Problems in the Uranium Bioremediation Avenue

(PhysOrg.com) -- Toxic uranium is often found in soil and groundwater in places where uranium was either mined or enriched to make nuclear fuel and weapons. Uranium contamination, which is a threat to wildlife ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Patience pays off with methanol for uranium bioremediation

The legacy of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy development has left ground water and sediment at dozens of sites across the United States and many more around the world contaminated with uranium. The uranium is transported ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Scientists prove unconventional superconductivity in new iron arsenide compounds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used inelastic neutron scattering to show that superconductivity in a new family of iron arsenide superconductors cannot ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 3


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