Science news articles about 'oxidation states'

  • Biosensor for measuring stress in cells

    ... from the University of Heidelberg. The biosensor specifically measures the oxidation state of glutathione. This is an important protection molecule ... with an enzyme called glutaredoxin. This enzyme “measures” the oxidation state of glutathione and transmits the value to the fluorescent ...
  • Tracking down the menace in Mexico City smog

    ... compounds readily enter the bloodstream. And a metal's oxidation state affects its toxicity. Measuring airborne ... 's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington State, the STXM studies by Mary Gilles at Berkeley ...
  • New catalysts promise faster, cleaner and more efficient research platform

    ... variety of catalytic reactions that are catalyzed by a high oxidation state alkylidene species, and to be able to design catalytic metathesis reactions with a control that has rarely if ever ...
  • Patience pays off with methanol for uranium bioremediation

    ... and sediment at dozens of sites across the United States and many more around the world contaminated with uranium. The uranium ... were amended with methanol. Spectroscopic analyses of uranium oxidation state in stimulated microcosm sediment slurries ...
  • Mars data published in Science this week

    ... like sodium chloride (table salt). As an oxidized state of chlorine, it has interesting properties including a strong affinity for water. On Earth, microbes use it as a chemical ...
  • Water linked to mantle oxidation

    Scientists have analysed minuscule samples of magma and found a direct link between water content and oxidation state
  • New X-ray technique illuminates reactivity of environmental contaminants

    ... by arsenic is a serious health concern in the United States and abroad. The poisonous element occurs naturally ... and availability of arsenic to living organisms depends on its oxidation state -- in other words, the number of electrons lost ...
  • Tip sheet: Migration '09 convenes near site of early nuclear technology

    ... a lot underground. But if uranium is converted to another oxidation state known as uranium (IV), the contaminant ... . Although little is known about how easily this intermediate oxidation state of uranium travels through the subsurface ...
  • Arsenic toxic at low levels, ferrate oxidation is innovative approach to mediate

    ... on arsenic speciation. Arsenic exists in four oxidation states, +V (arsenate), +III (arsenite), 0 (arsenic), and –III (arsine). More than 245 minerals ... -, FeVI) can address some of the concerns related to the use of other chemical oxidants for removing arsenic. Interestingly, FeVI does ...
  • Pathogen protection and virulence: Dark side of fungal membrane protein revealed

    ... subsequent signaling events that are linked to the overall oxidative state of the cell." Dr. Robert Cramer ... in the Department of Veterinary Molecular Biology at Montana State University, said: "We suspect that TmpL may act as a detoxifier ...
  • Rare earth metal enhances phosphate glass

    ... of materials science and engineering, and director of Penn State's Materials Research Institute, synthesized and compared ... in the glass was mostly in the cerium (III) or cerium (IV) oxidation state, or a ratio of the two. She found that all of her ...
  • Carnegie Mellon's kitchen chemistry makes science palatable

    ... detailed explanations of chemical processes, like oxidation states. All of the students were able to identify functional groups and suggest their effect in a transformation — something that is normally ...
  • A different kind of mine disaster

    ... the scientists isolated at Xikuangshan was of the "V" type, an oxidation state in which the metal has given up five electrons. It is believed V is the least toxic of the three oxidation states of which antimony is capable (I, III ...
  • Nanoparticle scientist speaks on new discoveries at Goldschmidt Conference

    ... on particle size. The ease with which these materials change their oxidation state is important in all kinds of applications, for example, the catalytic splitting of water for the production of hydrogen and oxygen ...
  • Percolating a solution to hexavalent chromium

    ... in water as charged particles in one of two states, oxidation state 3+ (trivalent form) and 6 ... form usually exists as chromate or dichromate). Other oxidation states are possible but are unstable in water and revert ...

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