These plastics not only serve as superior barriers to the flow of oxygen and carbon dioxide, keeping all kinds of products fresher longer, but also block out smells and prevent the packaging from absorbing any of the flavor or vitamin content of the food.
Other values recorded include ammonia, chlorine, water hardness (calcium and magnesium), dissolved oxygen and organic carbon.
It is based on indirect calorimetry, which determines energy expenditure of a person by measuring both consumed oxygen and produced carbon dioxide rates.
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Monday's reported launch of the monkey -- who was kept in a "completely sealed" capsule that produces oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide, with his vital signs recorded throughout the flight -- is part of a larger effort to someday send humans into space, said Iranian Space Agency Director Hamid Fazeli.
The mice's consumption of oxygen and production of carbon dioxide dropped ten minutes after they began inhaling hydrogen sulphide and remained extremely low as long as the gas was administered.
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The next trick, which Exxon's money will help pay for, is to tweak the biochemical pathway that makes the algal oil (which is known, technically, as a triglyceride, and has oxygen atoms in it as well as carbon and hydrogen) so that the oxygen-containing parts of the molecules are snipped off and a pure hydrocarbon is left.
In the grit of fine-grained mudstone, the scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon some of the key chemical ingredients for conditions suitable for life.
By contrast, modest black-hole activity can stir things up and encourage the formation of the kinds of elements (carbon, oxygen and so on) that are essential for life as we know it.
The highly reactive oxygen combines with hydrogen and carbon monoxide on the fuel side to make water and CO 2.
The current U.S. astronaut aboard Mir, Mike Foale, has put on a happy face despite the setbacks, but CNN has been told a lack of oxygen and a surplus of carbon dioxide may have contributed to a series of onboard mistakes which threatened the health of the station and could have killed the crew.
Creatures settled on elements like calcium, carbon and oxygen because that's what was abundant.
Beryllium-10 can be produced in the Sun when highly energetic protons bombard the nuclei of other elements like carbon and oxygen.
Household waste, for example, would be reduced to pure carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, along with a handful of heavier elements (tungsten, iron, aluminium and so on) which could then be re-used.
Plants, bugs, trees, worms, bacteria and men are mostly carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen.
That carbon quickly hooked up with oxygen in the air, creating carbon dioxide, and spread relatively evenly around the globe.
The combustion is slow and rich, using just enough oxygen to bust apart the diesel molecules into hydrogen and carbon monoxide without burning off the diesel entirely.
Nitrogen, methane, helium, water, carbon-oxygen compounds and hydrogen produced from mining, could permit food growth and development of a water supply for lunar inhabitants.
Some of the data it gathered about the abundance of phytoplankton - plant-like organisms that convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and provide food for other sea life - could already be monitored by satellite.
The IBM team's innovation to create the first single molecule picture, of a molecule called pentacene, was to use the tip to pick up a single, small molecule made up of a carbon and an oxygen atom.
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The gas is then fed into a stack of solid oxide fuel cells, where a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen occurs, producing electricity, water vapor and a tiny amount of carbon dioxide.
That hydrogen and carbon monoxide mixture is then pumped into one of two NOx traps, where it strips the oxygen from the NOx, forming nitrogen, carbon dioxide and water.
That means each of its molecules contains an oxygen atom as well as the carbon and hydrogen found in an alkane.
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And the air quality around the plant ought to improve, too, Ford says, because the roof will trap dust, absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen into the environment.
Life in the sea, after all, supports the basic processes that we all take for granted: the water cycle, the oxygen cycle, the carbon cycle, and much more.
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During photosynthesis -- the process when the plant absorbs carbon dioxide and gives off oxygen -- organic tissue absorbs airborne toxins.
Instead of using biological tools like enzymes and yeast to transform sugars, the company uses chemistry. (For a quick primer on biofuel technologies, click here.) Catalysts remove the oxygen from the sugars and rearrange the hydrogen and carbon atoms into fuel.
All life forms on earth use six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur.
The hot gas breaks up the reactants into atoms of carbon, hydrogen, silicon and oxygen.
Paclitaxel comes from the Pacific yew, a small, slow-growing fir found in small pockets in the Pacific Northwest. (Docetaxel comes from the European yew.) Devising a synthetic version is difficult because the chemical is exceedingly complex, marked by concentric rings of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen.
Microscopic algae, the earliest living organisms, drew carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and expelled oxygen.
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