What leveled Beirut on Tuesday sounds eerily similar to descriptions of a massive 1947 explosion in Texas City, Texas. The S.S. Grandcamp—carrying ammonium nitrate, fuel, and ammunition ...

Water-soluble inorganic (WSI) ions are major components of ambient air PM2.5 (particulate matter of diameter ≤2.5 μm); however, their potential health effects are understudied. On C57BL/6 mice, we ...

My mother in law boils vegetables with bicarbonate of soda Yes, and my mother too. The idea is simply to keep the greens bright in colour and it really does work.

The exocrine tissue also secretes a bicarbonate to neutralize stomach acid in the duodenum. This is the first section of the small intestine. The main hormones secreted by the endocrine gland in the ...

Oral bicarbonate is a widely used acid buffer in sports science, to improve physical performance in vigorous exercises because it can reverse lactic acidosis.14 Bicarbonate does not cross the ...

Nitrogen (N) equilibrium isotope fractionation (15α) involving gaseous, dissolved, and solid phases of ammonia (NH3) and ammonium (NH4+) (e.g., NH3(g)–NH3(aq)–NH4+(aq)–NH4+(s)) represents a ...

In recent years, the availability of a number of complete genomic databases for a range of cyanobacteria has made it possible to identify likely homologs of known Ci transporters in marine species of ...

Federal authorities have arrested a man at JFK airport in New York who allegedly provided bomb ingredients to the suspect responsible for last month’s attack on a fertility clinic in Palm Springs.

Administration of dietary acid in the form of ammonium chloride to normal rats or mildly acidotic diabetic rats leads to near total loss of insulin responsiveness due to inhibition of the insulin ...