As one of the lowest cost producers of carbon black, he has a good chance of a repeat performance with Columbian.
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This provides the necessary variety of response because the task of conducting the electricity is taken over by the carbon black.
Birla's units in Thailand, Thai Rayon and Thai Carbon Black, have both qualified for FORBES ASIA's 200 Best Under A Billion Companies.
It is among the world's top ten producers of cement and among the top five makers of acrylic, carbon black and insulators.
The company, which makes carbon black and tantalum, said facilities in Aizu and Chiba lost power, with operations temporarily suspended during the quake.
Alexandria Carbon Black is a joint venture with the Egyptian government.
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The resistance of a detector changes as the polymer swells in response to its reaction with the odour molecules and thus alters the connections between the particles of carbon black.
"When we compare changes in the black carbon to changes in these other indicators, it is clear that most of the increases in black carbon in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly in winter and spring, resulted from industrial emissions - probably from coal burning, " he added.
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The car retains its traditional center-placed speedometer and tachometer and basic carbon-black interior, with lots of color, rooftop and trim options.
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If carbon dioxide were black, we could actually see our atmosphere darkening with carbon dioxide, creating a heat-trapping blanket that is raising global air and ocean temperatures and threatening to dramatically rearrange our climate.
Black carbon may be the second most important man-made warming agent after carbon dioxide.
The coalition is a U.S.-led effort to combat emissions of black carbon, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
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The report warns that the role of black carbon is complex and can have cooling and warming effects.
Black carbon deposited on the Arctic snow and ice, he says, will have only a minimal effect on its reflectivity.
Black carbon is said to be a significant source of rapid warming in the northern United States, Canada, northern Europe and northern Asia.
Last year a six nation coalition of countries began a combined effort to curb the impact of short lived climate agents such as black carbon.
They will also work through the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to cut emissions of black carbon, which speeds the melting by making ice less reflective.
Other observers have written that the focus on carbon dioxide above all else has been misplaced, since quick wins are available in other areas like cutting methane emissions or black carbon soot.
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Gunnar Myhre of the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo, for example, notes that the amount of black carbon in the Arctic is small and has been falling in recent decades.
Unlike CO2, which stays in the atmosphere for about a century, short-lived climate pollutants remain in the atmosphere from a few days to a few weeks (black carbon) to up to 15 years (methane, HFCs).
Lehmann, the lead author of the paper which is published in the journal Nature Geosciences, said that the black carbon content of soils in the study ranged from zero to 82 percent of soil organic carbon.
The academics advocate concentrating first on short-term fixes for greenhouse gases or other warming agents, such as black carbon - particles emitted from the incomplete burning of fossil fuels, principally in diesel engines and wood stoves.
Controlling black carbon by giving poor people cleaner ways to burn various fuels could not only forestall a decade or two of global warming, it would also save hundreds of thousands of lives currently blighted by smoke and disease.
In contrast, reducing emissions of the sooty particles known as black carbon, which are given off by inefficient combustion in cooking fires and brick kilns, and by dodgy diesel engines, offers rapid, huge and tangible public-health benefits (see article).
According to a recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme, reducing black carbon and ozone in the lower part of the atmosphere, especially in the Arctic countries of America, Canada, Russia and Scandinavia, could cut warming in the Arctic by two-thirds over the next three decades.
He accidentally shot through some black greasy carbon residue on his arm.
Scott Montgomery clutches a diamond-shaped black-carbon bike frame.
These are wrapped in carbon nanotubes - tiny "straws" of pure carbon that are renowned for their electrical properties - and coated with a platinum black powder.
By contrast, modest black-hole activity can stir things up and encourage the formation of the kinds of elements (carbon, oxygen and so on) that are essential for life as we know it.
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