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When we first made antibiotics, we took those compounds into the lab and made our own versions of them, and bacteria responded to our attack the way they always had.
Proteins are being used today for an increasingly broad range of different applications, from materials that protect soldiers from injury to devices that detect dangerous compounds, but at least to me, the most exciting application is protein drugs.
If you don't think you can run a mile, you show yourself you can run a mile or two, or a marathon, or lose five pounds, or whatever it is, you realize that confidence compounds and can be transferred into the rest of your world.
In a chemical equation, molecules rearrange to make new compounds, but all the components should still be accounted for.
In a chemical reaction, the elements recombine to make new compounds.
As this reaction occurs, it produces a range of flavor and aroma compounds, which also react with each other, forming even more complex tastes and smells.
Caramelization is what happens when sugar molecules break down under high heat, forming the sweet, nutty, and slightly bitter flavor compounds that define, well, caramel.
Instead, what's really happening is that certain compounds in spicy foods activate the type of sensory neurons called polymodal nociceptors.
And the difference lies in the types of compounds involved.
For example, they'll break proteins into their component amino acids and then break those down even further into various compounds.
The complex combinations of compounds in food can stimulate brain cells to release mood-altering norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin.
These foods contain polyphenols, which are naturally occurring antioxidant compounds.
Painkillers, like ibuprofen, block the production of compounds that help the body transmit pain signals.
In 1911, she won yet another Nobel, this time in chemistry for her earlier discovery of radium and polonium, and her extraction and analysis of pure radium and its compounds.
And these two compounds have increased the resistance of those seedlings to future stresses.
Dr. Earl Kern, who's a smallpox expert of the U.S. Defense Department, states that any compounds that have a selectivity index of two or more are active.
It compounds on itself year after year, to the point where if you compare a technology from one generation to the next, they're almost unrecognizable.
Law number three: power compounds.
As plastics sit there being compressed amongst layers of other junk, rainwater flows through the waste and absorbs the water-soluble compounds it contains, and some of those are highly toxic.
These are called volatile organic compounds, and we release hundreds, even thousands of them every time we exhale.
The analysis of these volatile organic compounds in our breath is called breath analysis.
The essential part is a sensor device that detects the volatile organic compounds in our breath.
Simply put: when exposed to a breath sample, the sensor outputs a complex signature that results from the mixture of volatile organic compounds that we exhale.
There's the need for extremely reliable sensors that can detect mixtures of volatile organic compounds with sufficient reproducibility.
Our breath and the mixture of volatile organic compounds that we exhale hold tremendous amounts of information on our physiological condition.
This is possible because many insects and flowers produce simple organic compounds called hydrocarbons, which form a layer that protects their bodies from drying out.
The precise blend of compounds in this layer is species-specific.
Especially because the decision makers in the United States are frequently able to insulate themselves from consequences by living in gated compounds, by drinking bottled water and so on.
Or volatile organic compounds, the thousands of chemicals in everyday products that we end up breathing.
Nowadays, any species of venomous snakes, any species of spider, any species of scorpion, has its own venom signature, if you will, made out of dozens, if not hundreds, of chemical compounds.
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