Ten minutes after the scanning began, participants were given a water solution containing dextrose, a type of sugar.
Might a clever candidate champion a solution to the water problem?
In creating his "fungus accretion" vases, Simon brushed the rough surface of a ceramic vase with a clay-and-water solution until it built upon itself like a hand-dripped sand castle.
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He has a simple solution: Water must have a price, as that is the only way people, and industry, will use it prudently.
The Global Chemistry Experiment (Water: A Chemical Solution), a cornerstone event of the International Year of Chemistry 2011, is now one of the largest chemistry educational experiments done.
Also, to comply with prevailing U.S. emissions standards on nitrogen oxides, or NOx, these big diesels require fairly complicated systems of postcombustion treatment with a water-based urea solution, called AdBlue.
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The light source provides eight hours of electricity per dose of saline water, and the lantern comes with a dedicated water bag for mixing the solution.
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Solid food has to be pulverised first with a bit of water or buffer solution.
Then a solution of calcium and water is applied by a modified winter gritting machine with a very fine sprinkler-like system attached.
Of course, the most efficacious solution to living in a water-poor region is simply to move, which is what de Villiers himself did.
Indeed, the mutants were no more interested in a dilute sugar solution (or, indeed, a solution of artificial sweetener) than they were in plain water though they did respond to concentrated solutions of sweetness.
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But engineers have flushed out a startling solution to the region's water woes.
Anglian Water said it wanted to provide a solution to the problem too.
As every schoolchild should know, water moves from a dilute to a concentrated solution through a semipermeable membrane by a process called osmosis.
Banish mites and mold by washing bedding in 130-degree water weekly and use a chlorine-bleach solution to keep fungus at bay in the bathroom.
Colebrook residents were told it could be 2014 before a solution was found but South West Water say they hope to have a scheme in place by October.
By adding cobalt and phosphates to water and passing a mild current through the solution with a glass electrode, Matthew Kanan and Daniel Nocera of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were able to break water apart and force oxygen to bubble to the surface.
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The pressurized-water design was a quick-and-dirty solution that we have been stuck with ever since.
Officials admit the only solution to the water woes is a change in usage habits, particularly in Mexico City, which uses more water than the rest of the country combined.
Desalination, in fact, may be a solution for those regions now fishing for fresh water supplies.
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In the latest case, examples of wrongdoing included suspects using a hydrogen peroxide solution to process chicken claws or injecting water into meat to increase its weight.
He even has a brilliant solution to the Survivalist's riddle of frozen water bottles.
Colloidal silver is a solution of submicroscopic particles of pure silver suspended in water by an electric charge on each particle.
Colin Davie, from Lincolnshire County Council, said the authority would be prepared to prosecute Anglian Water under enforcement regulations if it did not find a solution soon.
In most of France, for instance, private franchise-holders supply the water but local authorities maintain the pipes a solution which, if applied to Britain's railways, would have the government owning carriages and engines but not running trains.
Since water is a common property resource, no one owns the problem and no one owns the solution.
In looking for a solution, engineers are certainly thinking about how to keep to a minimum the amount of water they recover alongside the oil.
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His company's solution is to incorporate super-hydrophilic (i.e. water-loving) nanoparticles into a reverse osmosis membrane.
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