News tagged with atmospheric chemists
New simulation shows consequences of a world without Earth's natural sunscreen (w/Video)
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The year is 2065. Nearly two-thirds of Earth's ozone is gone -- not just over the poles, but everywhere. The infamous ozone hole over Antarctica, first discovered in the 1980s, is a year-round ...
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Termite insecticide a potent greenhouse gas
Jan 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An insecticide used to fumigate termite-infested buildings is a strong greenhouse gas that lives in the atmosphere nearly 10 times longer than previously thought, UC Irvine research has found.
Strange molecule in the sky cleans acid rain, scientists discover
Aug 12, 2008 |
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Researchers have discovered an unusual molecule that is essential to the atmosphere's ability to break down pollutants, especially the compounds that cause acid rain. It's the unusual chemistry facilitated ...
Chemists find important contributor to smog
Mar 20, 2008 |
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Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a chemical reaction in the atmosphere above major cities long assumed to be unimportant in urban air pollution is in fact a significant ...
New clues to ozone depletion
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 26, 2007 |
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Large quantities of ozone-depleting chemicals have been discovered in the Antarctic atmosphere by researchers from the University of Leeds, the University of East Anglia, and the British Antarctic Survey.
Billions of years ago, microbes were key in developing modern nitrogen cycle
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As the world marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, there is much focus on evolution in animals and plants. But new research shows that for the countless billions of tiniest creatures - microbes ...
Converting Nitrogen to a More Useful Form
Jan 09, 2007 |
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Nitrogen-containing organic compounds are important products as well as intermediates for many pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and chemicals used in electronics. Air contains plenty of nitrogen, but it is in a form that cannot ...
Researchers develop cheap, easy 'kitchen chemistry' to perform formerly complex synthesis
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Dec 04, 2009 |
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A team at The Scripps Research Institute has made major strides in solving a problem that has been plaguing chemists for many years: how best to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and then to create new bonds to join molecules together. ...
Building a Better Virtual Raindrop
Jun 26, 2005 |
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A new way of mathematically modeling the formation of rain drops in clouds may improve our understanding of Earth’s climate, cloud formation and movement, and the effect that small airborne particles have ...
Chemist tames longstanding electron computation problem
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When the University of Chicago's David Mazziotti talks about chemistry, perhaps he is thinking about how the behavior of all of the electrons in a molecule can be anticipated from the behavior of just two ...
Queen's chemists work with NASA to develop liquids for lunar telescope
Jul 10, 2007 |
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Chemists at Queen's University Belfast are working with NASA and scientists in Canada and the United States to design a telescope that can be stationed on the Moon.
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