• And he says the U.S. is replacing known chemicals with chemicals about which little is known.

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  • Cytokines like interleukin-1 are not always harmful, but they can interact with chemicals in the brain.

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  • The water system will continue to be flushed with chemicals until clear results are returned from the lab.

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  • Past attempts to create live mice by parthenogenesis, for example by stimulating mature eggs with chemicals, have failed.

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  • Global Thermostat coats the bricks with chemicals called amines to draw CO2 from the air and bind with it.

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  • Clostridia kill bacteria competing for their niches with chemicals called phenols (carbolic acid, the first antiseptic, is one such).

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  • These, like Dr Lackner's sheets, are coated with chemicals that take in and release carbon dioxide according to the circumstances.

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  • He blames the shift on generations of pets who grew up with bad diets, over-vaccination and being constantly doused with chemicals such as flea repellents.

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  • They have missiles and factories where they make missiles with chemicals.

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  • And in 2008 Chinese soldiers fired more than a thousand rockets filled with chemicals at clouds over Beijing to prevent them from raining on the Olympics.

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  • The DNA method works slightly differently, in that the sample and the particles are treated with chemicals that cause DNA to stick promiscuously to the particles.

    ECONOMIST: Labs on a chip

  • Hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" is a process of forcing water mixed with chemicals through deep wells to shatter and crack hard shale rocks to release the gas inside.

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  • His thrust began with chemicals, still 64% of Sasol's revenue.

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  • In other words it requires treatment with chemicals, or illumination with ultraviolet light, in order to make it visible enough to work with and, even then, it is often indistinct.

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  • They said it was an "unexpectedly dynamic" process, with chemicals in venom being formed through evolution and then later being adopted by parts of the body for other uses.

    BBC: Snake venom may be 'drug source'

  • Transporting by rail avoids billions of dollars of infrastructure costs, avoids the need for any regulatory review, and eliminates the need to dilute the crude with chemicals to make it flow more easily.

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  • "In the mid-90s people would rather burn their scalps with chemicals to straighten it to confirm with the Western standard of beauty than have natural hair and that pained me, " he says passionately.

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  • She said they expected to see a decline in the number of cases in the next five to six days as sixteen cooling towers in the city had been treated with chemicals to kill the bacteria.

    BBC: Edinburgh Legionnaires' disease cases rise further

  • These offices, set up over the past 15 years, deploy artillery, rocket-launchers and aeroplanes to seed clouds with chemicals (usually silver iodide) that encourage droplets to form and fall where needed, or prevent the formation of destructive hailstones.

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  • Meanwhile, officials are treating affected areas with chemicals - such as calcium and magnesium nitrates - to try to counter the alkaline effects, amid hopes that what is being described as Hungary's worst chemical accident will soon come to an end.

    BBC: How toxic is Hungary's red sludge?

  • Carbo Ceramics is a leader in making what's called ceramic proppant, which is the synthetic material, sand-based often, with chemicals that are injected into the fractured rock to hold open the cavities so the natural gas goes up into the piping that captures it.

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  • When the drilling is finished, water, combined with chemicals designed to reduce friction and serve other purposes, is injected from the surface into the well shaft at very high pressures, thereby fracturing the shale rock formations far below, and making it possible to extract economically the natural gas embedded in the shale.

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  • But because of the Recovery Act and the job training program at a community college in his town, he went back and took a 16-hour course in being able to begin to deal with -- 16-week course -- in being able to deal with chemicals related to how they produced solar panels.

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  • And we are not even addressing, not mentioning at all, the most important aspect of Recovery from all addictions, that of quality Sobriety, a Sobriety having absolutely nothing to do with chemicals, food, sex, perfectionism, work, gambling, shopping or any other compulsive behavior utilized by an addict to change their always painful emotional state.

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  • Water has been one of the key points of contention over fracking, both because the practice pollutes water with chemicals, salts, and radioactivity and because it consumes lots of H20: up to 13 million gallons to open a single well, according to an administrator on Texas Water Development Board cited by Bloomberg reporter Joe Carroll.

    FORBES: Can No-Water Fracking Quiet Critics?

  • He saw things he recognized but his brain, befuddled with chemicals released by fear, couldn't locate the words to describe them: the twin stacks spewing plumes of dirty white smoke, the abandoned custom's station with a faded red star painted above the door, the line of white-washed bee hives on a slope near a copse of stunted apple trees.

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  • In Moscow, the enterprise of scraping the snow off the streets and pavements, forming it into snow hillocks, carting it off in 6, 000-odd snow vehicles for dumping or melting, and finally zapping it with chemicals to speed the thaw is vast and costly (which helps to explain why Yuri Luzhkov, the city's mayor, threatened last year to fine meteorologists who make wrong forecasts).

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  • But as with many chemicals, it can be manipulated and used for purposes which it was not intended for.

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  • Some deride the stripped-down H20 as "dead water" because its natural minerals have been eliminated along with the chemicals.

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  • They thought that by blocking these receptors with druglike chemicals they might shut down the signals for tumor growth.

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