News articles tagged with 'ammonia' (Page 3)
Researchers use 'green chemistry' to produce amines
— 13 Jun 2008 00:48 | ChemistryChemists at UC Riverside have discovered an inexpensive, clean and quick way to prepare amines - nitrogen-containing organic compounds derived from ammonia that have wide industrial…
Laser light may be able to detect diseases on the breath
— 18 Feb 2008 16:46 | HealthA team of scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, has shown that by sampling…
All alone, ammonia and hydrogen chloride use negativity to get attached
— 14 Feb 2008 19:00 | ChemistryElectrons - bits of negative energy that shock you when you touch a door handle - spur the chemical reaction between an acid and a base, according to new results in the journal Science.…
NASA spacecraft sees changes in Jupiter system
— 10 Oct 2007 08:30 | AstronomyNASA's New Horizons spacecraft provided a new bird's-eye view of the dynamic Jupiter system as it travelled through the planet's orbit on 28 February. New Horizons used Jupiter's gravity…
Ice volcanoes on Charon?
— 19 Jul 2007 09:29 | AstronomyFrigid geysers spewing material up through cracks in the crust of Pluto's companion Charon and re-coating parts of its surface in ice crystals could be making this distant world into…
A study reveals function of ubiquitous yet poorly understood microorganisms
— 23 May 2007 16:58 | BiologyDiscovered in the late 1970s, archaea are one of the three main branches on the tree of life, with bacteria and eukaryotes such as plants and animals on the other two branches. But…