Article: Comparison of ultrastructural cytotoxic effects of carbon and carbon/iron particulates on human monocyte-derived macrophages.(Reasearch)

Article: CONSUMERS TAPPING THE WATER-FILTRATION MARKET BUT EPA WARNS ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  October 10, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Among such contaminants are iron, particulates and chlorine, according to ... of problem. For instance, carbon filters are ``very effective ... more so when combined with carbon filtration. Usually, biological ... often are combined with a carbon filtration mechanism. Countertop ...

Article: WATER-FILTRATION SYSTEMS ON THE RISE.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  October 8, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... contaminants that do so and which filters can control are iron, particulates and chlorine, according to NSF International, an independent ... to the problem they're trying to solve. For instance, carbon filters are ``very effective in removing tastes, odors ...

Article: carbon
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...carbon [Lat.,=charcoal], nonmetallic chemical ... 4, or -4. Properties and Isotopes Carbon is found free in nature in at least four ... a third form, the so-called amorphous carbon, the element occurs partly free and partly ...

Article: Carbon cycle
The Gale Encyclopedia of Science;      700+ words ...Carbon cycle The carbon cycle describes the movement of carbon in the atmosphere, where it exists as carbon dioxide gas, through organisms, and then back into the atmosphere and the oceans following the deomposition of the dead organisms. Carbon ...

Article: Carbon monoxide
The Gale Encyclopedia of Science;      700+ words ...Carbon monoxide Carbon monoxide is a compound of carbon and oxygen with the chemical formula CO. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, toxic gas. Carbon monoxide is poisonous to all warm-blooded animals (when it is inhaled and combined ...

Transcript: CARBON DIOXIDE SEQUESTRATION:WILLIAM H. SCHLESINGER
Congressional Testimony;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... past 30 years conducting scientific investigations of the global carbon cycle, especially on the carbon content of trees and soils and how they may affect the content of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth`s atmosphere. We are here today to talk ...

Article: Carbon Cycle
UXL Encyclopedia of Science;      700+ words ...Carbon cycle The carbon cycle is the process in which carbon atoms are recycled over and over again on Earth. Carbon recycling takes place within Earth's biosphere and between living things and the nonliving environment. Since a continual supply ...