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Ultra-fine coatings on sediment grains influence nitrate and sulfate storage in soil

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tiny sediment grains are covered with a very fine-grained, complex mixture of minerals in an open fabric that results in a large surface area in contact with water between the grains. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey ...





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Mini-Donut Catches Chloride Ions

Mini-Donut Catches Chloride Ions

Chemistry /

created Mar 11, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Ions—charged atoms or molecules—play an important role in nature, in our bodies as well as for science and technology. It is often necessary to trap, remove, mask, stabilize, or transport ions, whether in ...


Researchers provide new information about mass spectrometry

Chemistry /

created Oct 15, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fresh data on mass spectrometry are presented in the report ‘Low-energy collision-induced fragmentation of negative ions derived from ortho-, meta-, and para-hydroxyphenyl carbaldehydes, ketones, and related compounds,’ produced ...


Interstellar Chemistry Gets More Complex With New Negatively-Charged Molecule Discovery

Interstellar Chemistry Gets More Complex With New Negatively-Charged Molecule Discovery

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 23, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (28) | comments 0

Astronomers using data from the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have found the largest negatively-charged molecule yet seen in space. The discovery of the third negatively-charged ...


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Nano design adjustment may help find, clear some water contaminants

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 13, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Experiments designed to test discrepancies in theoretical computational chemistry have turned up a barely two-angstrom difference that may lead to a new approach to locate and remove dangerous toxins such as ...


Negative Vibes From Space

Negative Vibes From Space

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 01, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (75) | comments 0

Astronomers have discovered the first negatively charged molecule in space, identifying it from radio signals that were a mystery until now. While about 130 neutral and 14 positively charged molecules are known ...


Scientists develope new agents to battle MRSA

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Experts from Queen's University Belfast have developed new agents to fight MRSA and other hospital-acquired infections that are resistant to antibiotics. The fluids are a class of ionic liquids that not only kill colonies ...


Continuous, real-time analysis of radioactive waste achieved at PNNL

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created Sep 13, 2006 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An improved monitoring system for providing continuous analysis of high-level radioactive waste has been developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers and reported at the national meeting of the American ...


New clues to how proteins dissolve and crystallize

New clues to how proteins dissolve and crystallize

Chemistry /

created May 12, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1

In the late 19th century the Czech scientist Franz Hofmeister observed that some salts (ionic compounds) aided the solution of proteins in egg white, some caused the proteins to destabilize and precipitate, ...


Salmeron designed the high-pressure photoelectron spectroscopy system to analyze compounds as they appear in the real world

Spectroscopy for the Real World

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created Jan 31, 2005 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New system used to analyze environmental, biological phenomena in their natural state One good thing leads to another. A team of scientists used a first-of-its-kind spectroscopy system at the U.S. Departmen ...


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Hydrated Electrons Can Take More Than One Guise

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created Dec 21, 2004 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory appear to have settled a long-standing scientific question about water clusters – aggregates of water molecules that feature ...



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