Green aficionados are familiar with the statistic that the sun bathes the Earth in trillions of barrels of energy (in oil equivalent terms), and less familiar with the fact that total known hydrocarbon resources are also countable in the trillions of barrels (from the oil-sands and ultra-deep-water sub-salt fields, to methane hydrates and coal, not to mention shale gas).
The solution (pun intended) involved tacking sodium dithionite and hydro-chloride onto the antibiotic, making it into a water-soluble salt. (Drugs prepared as hydrochlorides are commonplace.) To keep the chemicals from oxidizing, Adams tested 50 different agents, such as citric acid and ascorbic acid, and played with various ratios until he got the right pH balance.
That's because salt-water mosquitoes need salt water to reproduce.
The alternatives to silicone include saline -salt water - filled pads, or soya-based implants.
The 16th Century hull was first sprayed with chilled fresh water to remove salt and later with a water-soluble wax which prevents shrinkage of the timbers.
But whether you're a fresh water economist or a salt water one, empirical analysis - working out what's actually going on in the economy - depends on knowing the facts.
Salt-water mosquitoes have a range of 100 miles and that's making tracking their breeding site difficult.
But Aedas sollicitans, a big aggressive salt-water mosquito, shouldn't really be one of those species.
Each was given carefully controlled salt-water injections in their jaw muscles to induce pain.
With the backing of the local salt 'magnate', John Corbett, the town became the only salt-water spa-town in Britain.
In these locations disposal wells are drilled into existing underground salt-water aquifers and the waste water is pumped into these zones.
Furukawa wants to reduce the price to of the salt-water system to half the cost of a conventional lead acid battery.
He added two guardhouses, a grotto, and a massive 30-foot-by-60-foot salt water swimming pool that touted fish and three accompanying diving boards.
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The 312-unit project's fifth floor is slated to include such amenities as outdoor kitchens, a salt-water pool and an organic garden where residents can grow their own vegetables.
In experiments on dogs they have found that by pumping liters of ice-cold salt water into their arteries and cooling them down to 59 degrees they can preserve vital organs up to three hours after the heart stops.
My recommendations would be Christiania, the swimming area at Islands Brygge (where you can take a dip in the cool, clean salt-water of the Copenhagen channel), or rent a bike and head north along the coast towards the beaches in Klampenborg and beyond, while looking at the magnificent houses along the way.
They decided to introduce Bell's bialys--flatter than a bagel and hole-less, they're made with water, flour, yeast, salt and ground onions--to Japan.
And now the Arctic's upper layers are getting less dense, for several reasons: melting Arctic glaciers, rising surface-water temperatures, increased precipitation and an absence of salt concentrations resulting from sea-ice formation.
Treatments such as diuretics (which speed up the elimination of water and salt), beta-blockers (which cause the heart to beat more slowly and less forcefully) and ACE inhibitors (which stop the production of water-attracting chemicals) have long been available.
But some investors and tech companies see lucrative and long-term opportunities in technologies for taking salt out of sea water, treating wastewater for re-use and other applications because water precise because water so indispensable for human health and economic growth.
The result is a landscape that is changing year-by-year, and week-by-week, as salt water encroaches farther inland.
They are concerned about the concentrated salt water, a by-product of the construction process, being pumped into the sea.
Salt water swamped several large fuel-distribution centers in New Jersey when Sandy's storm surge hit Monday night.
Hard rice and salt water had made him scrawny and thin-haired by his 40s.
Though hotel staff claims the pool contains salt water, instead it seems merely non-chlorinated and almost magically pristine.
Its idea was to move the point at which salt and fresh water mix in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to a place that they opined was ideal for the smelt.
To do so they're pushing the frontiers of imaging technology to peer beneath miles of water, rock and salt layers thousands of feet thick--all in the hopes of finding billions of barrels of oil trapped below.
Meteorologist Jeff Masters notes today that although the storm surge has pushed salt water from the Gulf as far as 314 miles upstream, all the rain expected to fall north of New Orleans in the coming days will help raise near record-low water levels on the river and flush the salt water back out.
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He instructed me to dump a packet of salt and some government-issue powdered grape drink into my water.
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