She eventually started working as a chemical engineer and has, like Ms. Patton, enjoyed a successful career.
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Al Libi would become notorious, after being captured in November 2001, for lying to his interrogators and telling them that al Qaeda was working to get chemical and biological weapons from Saddam Hussein.
The SPET scans allowed the researchers to check how the system was working by injecting a radiation-emitting chemical which seeks out working NMDA receptors.
Over the past several years, Exxon has been working to protect its chemical business by lobbying against various proposals to reform chemical regulations in the United States.
Presented by Senators Joseph Lieberman and Orrin Hatch, it will offer tax incentives, protection of patents and limited liability for any firm working on bio, chemical or radiological counter-measures.
In January, Craig Williams, executive director of the Chemical Weapons Working Group based in Berea, Kentucky, insisted that the arsenal's stockpile was a prime candidate for neutralisation, a process planned for bulk chemical-agent stockpiles at the sites in Maryland and Indiana.
No one is more suited to working out biofuels than these huge chemical companies, which is what they are.
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The German chemical giant BASF is working on a toothpaste that will not only resist tooth decay--the familiar ad slogan--but reverse it by rebuilding tooth enamel.
James Inglesby is a chemical engineer at Unilever now working in Lagos, Nigeria as a category manager for deodorants and skin care.
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"The experiential learning is more valuable than the money at this point, " says Nicole Quesada, a McCombs student with a chemical-engineering background who is working on Yoo-hoo.
Thus far the star of this new science has been ethanol, a car fuel made from corn, but around the world chemical, grain and biotech companies are working to produce auto paint, cosmetics, even apparel fiber from renewable resources.
Companies are also working to protect soldiers through the destruction or neutralization of chemical and biological agents.
In order for the body to operate efficiently, biological substances must bind to or pass chemical messages to each other to start and stop working.
Samuels is a Department of the Army civilian, working as a research chemist studying remote sensing technology at Edgewood Chemical Biological Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
The festival raises money for Greenpeace, Oxfam and Water Aid, while Mr Eavis' other green measures include recycling food waste on the working dairy farm, meaning he has not needed to use chemical fertilisers for almost 40 years.
The Environmental Working Group says 56% of beach and sport sunscreens contain the chemical oxybenzone.
Journalists and "citizen reporters" are working to get the word out, for instance, by revealing when chemical spills have occurred.
Ecuador and Nicaragua are working more closely with Brazil in helping to construct hydroelectric energy plants and chemical industries, respectively.
"The fun of the challenge from the science perspective is that you do have farmers and biologists and entomologists, and biochemists and chemical engineers, and process engineers and business people and investors all working to solve this, and it ranges anywhere from a political issue to a technical issue, " del Cardayre said.
When working, it splits light into its component colours, to reveal information about the chemical content, temperature and motion of planets, comets, stars, interstellar gas and galaxies.
Since 1991, working separately, the two have found how each protein can be sensitive to more than one smelly chemical, in different amounts, and how any given chemical activates several proteins at once, much like a unique musical chord which the brain then identifies as a smell.
The new department would concentrate on safeguarding borders, working with first-responders such as local police and fire departments, analyzing threats and promoting technological changes to counter chemical, biological and nuclear threats.
"When the government announces these chemicals are unsafe on food they're ... announcing, in effect, that the farm groups and chemical companies who have said there is no problem were wrong, " Ken Cook of the Environmental Working Group told CNN.
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