News tagged with soot
New carbon allotrope could have a variety of applications
(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon comes in many different forms, and now scientists have predicted another new form, or allotrope, of carbon. The new form of carbon, which they call T-carbon, has very intriguing physical ...
Apr 22, 2011 |
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Report: Most Americans in areas with unhealthy air
(AP) -- Sixty percent of Americans live in areas with unhealthy air pollution levels, despite a growing green movement and more stringent laws aimed at improving air quality, the American Lung Association ...
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Team finds buckyballs grow larger by 'eating' vaporized carbon
(Phys.org) -- Fullerenes were first discovered back in 1985 by a team of physicists vaporizing graphite in helium gas, one class of which, the buckminsterfullerene (C60) named after Buckminster Fuller and ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 30, 2012 |
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Research estimates how long Titan's chemical factory has been in business
Saturn's giant moon Titan hides within a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's well-known to scientists as one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar system. It's a productive "factory" cranking ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Study quantifies effect of soot on snow and ice, supporting previous climate findings
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), published in Nature Climate Change, has quantitatively demonstrated that black carbon—also known ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Glaciers: Fossil fuel signature found in Alaskan ice
New clues as to how the Earth's remote ecosystems have been influenced by the industrial revolution are locked, frozen in the ice of glaciers. That is the finding of a group of scientists, including Robert ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 19, 2012 |
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Urban 'heat island' effect is a small part of global warming; white roofs don't reduce it
Cities release more heat to the atmosphere than the rural vegetated areas around them, but how much influence these urban "heat islands" have on global warming has been a matter of debate. Now a study by Stanford researchers ...
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Five myths about diesel engines
(PhysOrg.com) -- Diesel engines, long confined to trucks and ships, are garnering more interest for their fuel efficiency and reduced carbon dioxide emissions, relative to gasoline engines. Argonne mechanical ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 14, 2011 |
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Combining gas and diesel engines could yield best of both worlds
It may be hard to believe, but the beloved gasoline engine that powers more than 200 million cars across America every day didn't get its status because it's the most efficient engine. Diesel engines can be ...
May 05, 2011 |
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Soot packs a punch on Tibetan Plateau's climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- In some cases, soot – the fine, black carbon silt that is released from stoves, cars and manufacturing plants – can pack more of a climatic punch than greenhouse gases, according ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 03, 2011 |
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Unaccounted feedbacks from climate-induced ecosystem changes may increase future climate warming
In addition to the carbon cycle-climate interactions that have been a major focus of modeling work in recent years, other biogeochemistry feedbacks could be at least equally important for future climate change. The authors ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 25, 2010 |
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Aggressive action to reduce soot emissions needed to meet climate change goals
Without aggressive action to reduce soot emissions, the time table for carbon dioxide emission reductions may need to be significantly accelerated in order to achieve international climate policy goals such as those set forth ...
Jun 25, 2010 |
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With help of DNA, nanotubes may become a bigger force
In his neatly ordered lab at DuPont, chemist Ming Zheng slides open a glass cabinet and removes a flask of soot that could have been swept from someone's fireplace.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Wildfires set to increase 50 percent by 2050
The area of forest burnt by wildfires in the United States is set to increase by over 50% by 2050, according to research by climate scientists.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Sulfate lens enhances climate warming properties of atmospheric soot
Particulate pollution thought to be holding climate change in check by reflecting sunlight instead enhances warming when combined with airborne soot, a new study has found.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2009 |
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