Security forces overcame the rebels by pumping a mysterious chemical gas into the theater.
He came up with the idea for this after working for three years at NASA on a project for the Department of Homeland Security building a handheld, chemical gas sensor that plugged onto the back of an iPhone.
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The Petroleum Association of Wyoming says that 2-BE isn't an oil and gas chemical but is a common fire retardant used in association with plastics and plastic components used in drinking wells.
For example, two firms, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical and Hitachi Chemical, control about 90% of the market for a specialty resin used to bond parts of microchips that go in to smartphones and other devices.
The chemical industry, the nation's largest consumer of natural gas, both for energy and as a chemical feedstock, is rapidly moving offshore in search of cheaper gas--and taking jobs and capital with it.
The chemical conversion of natural gas to liquid fuels could provide an attractive alternative to CNG.
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Assad has a large stockpile of chemical weapons including Sarin gas and blister agents.
The smell has been identified as that of mercaptan, the chemical added to natural gas to give it an odour.
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New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the country and on this particular two miles of land there are hundreds of potential terrorist targets including chemical plants, chlorine gas plants, rail yards, rail lines, refineries, an international airport, and the third largest port in the country.
At the same time these investments are being made to exploit the cheap natural gas resource, the chemical industry is ramping up tens of billions of its own investments, counting on affordable gas as a critical feedstock.
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It is supposed to ban the production and stockpiling of nerve gas and other chemical weapons worldwide.
Two-thirds of global chemical production depends on oil or gas as its raw ingredient.
It all stems from a gas leak at a chemical plant in Rouen, which is more than 60 miles north west of Paris.
The pressure to act has intensified in recent days after emerging evidence that Syria has used chemical weapons such as the nerve gas sarin.
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) said jobs created by fracking, a form of gas extraction, included chemical, mechanical, civil and structural engineers, operations staff and geologists.
The economic losers are other gas-dependent industries, such as the chemical industry, where Dow and others are anticipating significant investments to take advantage of competitively priced gas.
"The U.S. is in a natural gas crisis, " Dow Chemical Chief Executive Andrew Liveris testified to a Senate committee Oct. 6.
The most vociferous is DOW Chemical that is rightly concerned that higher gas prices translate into higher feedstock prices for its manufacturing processes.
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But it appears to be a catalyst-driven chemical system that releases both heat and gas in sufficient quantities to pump the wings up and down.
Dr. HILTERMAN: Well, I think so because each time it was using a new chemical agent and it was starting to gas civilians as well.
But U.S. National Security Advisor Sandy Berger said Sunday that the United States has "physical evidence" that the factory was manufacturing a chemical used to make deadly VX nerve gas.
In September 2011, fuel and chemical Group Ultra, holding that controls gas stations in Brazil, launched the energy drink Mood, which is commercialized in about 1000 stores near gas stations around the country.
The element to be purified is first incorporated into a chemical that can be turned into a gas. (In this case, the exact compound is still proprietary information.) Then an infra-red laser is shone through the gas.
Marines dismounted, and followed close behind Faez Shamran el Yaseri, 51, as the farmer scurried down a bank, past a stash of rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) in a ditch, through his garden, then to an outbuilding with hundreds of gas masks, canisters and chemical decontamination kits littered on the ground.
Siluria converts methane, the primary ingredient in natural gas, into liquid fuels and chemical intermediates.
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These generally require enhanced oil recovery techniques such as gas (CO2) injection, chemical injection, microbial injection, cyclic steam injection, steam flooding, and fire flooding.
Second only to the oil and gas industry, the environmental left hates chemical companies most.
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Or it can produce chemical feedstocks, at a lower cost than natural gas, as at the 15 gasification plants being built, using Shell technology, in China.
In China, Shell technology is at the center of 15 coal gasification plants being built to produce chemical feedstocks at a lower cost than using natural gas.
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