News tagged with sodium sulfide
Liquid Battery Offers Promising Solar Energy Storage Technique
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the biggest challenges currently facing large-scale solar energy technology is finding an effective way to store the energy, which is essential for using the electricity at night or ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Novel device removes heavy metals from water
An unfortunate consequence of many industrial and manufacturing practices, from textile factories to metalworking operations, is the release of heavy metals in waterways. Those metals can remain for decades, even centuries, ...
Dec 16, 2011 |
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New material traps radioactive ions using 'Venus flytrap' method
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like a Venus flytrap, a newly discovered chemical material is a picky eater -- it won't snap its jaws shut for just anything. Instead of flies, however, its favorite food is radioactive nuclear ...
Feb 26, 2010 |
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A Venus flytrap for nuclear waste
Not every object is food to a Venus flytrap. Like the carnivorous plant, a new material developed at Northwestern University permanently traps only its desired prey, the radioactive ion cesium, and not other harmless ions ...
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Shallow Origins
In finding answers to the mystery of the origin of life, scientists may not have to dig too deep. New research is shedding light on shallower waters as a possible location for where life on Earth began.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Origins of sulfur in rocks tells early oxygen story
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sedimentary rocks created more than 2.4 billion years ago sometimes have an unusual sulfur isotope composition thought to be caused by the action of ultra violet light on volcanically produced ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2009 |
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New 'scrubber' speeds removal of powerful anthrax clean-up agent
Researchers in New Jersey report discovery of a fast, efficient method for removing a powerful pesticide used to sterilize buildings and equipment following anthrax attacks.
Jul 14, 2008 |
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Compound removes radioactive material from power plant waste
Strontium 90 is a common radioactive by-product of fission in nuclear power plants. When extracted from the reactor along with other isotopes, a mixture is created made up of the radioactive material and inert ions like sodium ...
Mar 13, 2008 |
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New Material Can Find a Needle in a Nuclear Waste Haystack
Nuclear power has advantages, but, if this method of making power is to be viable long term, discovering new solutions to radioactive waste disposal and other problems are critical. Otherwise nuclear power ...
Mar 03, 2008 |
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Rounding up gases, nano-style
A new process for catching gas from the environment and holding it indefinitely in molecular-sized containers has been developed by a team of University of Calgary researchers, who say it represents a novel method of gas ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 01, 2008 |
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