Some Smelter Slags Represent A Significant Environmental Hazard
...nce the beginning of the industrial age, slag, the glassy material left overwhen metals are refined from ore...ined. Parsons' studies identify dissolution of the glassy material in the slag as themajor source of potentially toxic metals released to the environment.Iron...Study by Boston College chemistry team shows critical role of water in protein function
...ray crystallography that protein and water adopt a glassy state at the same temperature that protein functio...hat surface residues will support function. "Such glassy transitions would be important for the function of any solvated large biomolecule - proteins, DNA, R...Researchers find glass-eating microbes at the rock bottom of the food chain
... rock. Traces of this process are preserved in the glassy margins of underwater lava flows (scientists call super-cooled lava spewed by undersea volcanoes "glass," which is similar to material used to make stone-age axes and knives). Glass samples were recovered by drilling as deep as four miles below sea l...... However, the production and purpose of these tiny glassy structures common in plant tissues is poorly understood. Dolores Piperno at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama and colleagues predict that a single genetic locus controls both lignin and phytolith production in squash (Cucur...Imaging apparatus characterizes drops in 'dirty' laboratory environments
...m storage. Vitrification of radioactive waste into glassy solids is the most popular approach for disposal. By spraying radioactive sludge into a high-temperature combustor, essentially all the water and other nonradioactive material could be removed, leaving only the radioactive metallic elements to be vi...Mathematical models reveal 'molten' and 'glassy' states of RNA
...ssible overall shapes. In the glassy state, the strand "freezes" in a random pattern. ...rder to observe the molten or glassy state. Liu has found that more than 8,000 units are necessary -- a computationa...Diamond film may enable critical new sensors for bioterror
...munities." Other materials such as gold, glass and glassy carbon proved either unstable or difficult to integrate with silicon. The biologically modified diamond films, on the other hand, have proved to be remarkably durable, able to withstand multiple cycles of processing DNA, genetic material that can be ...Diamond in the rough...and on the chip
...olecules. Other materials such as gold, glass and glassy carbon proved either unstable or difficult to integrate with silicon. The biologically modified diamond films, doped with specific DNA, will be able to sense such things as anthrax, ricin, bubonic plague, smallpox and other molecules. Researchers pr...Rutgers researchers test polymer reliability for medical implants
...rs exhibit two solid states a rubbery state and a glassy state. There is a transition in polymers where they go from a hard, glassy state to a rubbery state. They leave their glassy state when they cross a threshold temperature we ...Princeton paleontologist produces evidence for new theory on dinosaur extinction
...m Chicxulub. (The fallout is visible as a layer of glassy beads of molten rock that rained down after the impact.) These fossils indicate that this impact came about 300,000 years before the mass extinction. The latest evidence came last year from an expedition by an international team of scientists who dri...