Sentence examples for traces of carbon from inspiring English sources

"The most important thing is that if you lay the traces of carbon dioxide, methane and temperature over each other they match almost perfectly," says Rapley.

When the rover drilled a sample from it and heated it up in its onboard lab, it found traces of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, and sulfur — the building blocks of life.

These can be made of nickel-steel alloys, but the best candidate so far is a titanium material containing small amounts of nickel and molybdenum and traces of carbon and iron.

In the synthesis of ammonia (but not of methanol) any compound of oxygen is a poison for (reduces the effectiveness of) the catalyst, and so traces of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide must be carefully removed.

The traces of carbon and oxygen could be attributed to the polyphenolic coating over the Au NPs.

Nowadays, these reactions are widely applied in ammonia synthesis plants to remove traces of carbon monoxide that acts as a catalyst poison for the ammonia synthesis catalyst [6].

Since animals consume plants, animals should likewise contain traces of carbon-14.

Also, because carbon dioxide is continuously absorbed by plants and becomes part of their tissues, plants should contain traces of carbon-14.

Because it had been known since 1939 that cosmic rays create showers of neutrons on striking atoms in the atmosphere, and because the atmosphere contains about 78 percent nitrogen, which absorbs neutrons to decay into the radioactive isotope carbon-14, Libby concluded that traces of carbon-14 should always exist in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Our measurements demonstrate significant oxidation only on the surfaces of the silver nanoparticles with many covalent carbon-silver bonds but only negligible traces of carbon-oxygen bonds.

A trace of hydrogen, for example, diffuses through carbon dioxide at virtually the same rate that a trace of carbon dioxide diffuses through hydrogen.