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And sometimes they'll resort to what's known as the "burn and sniff" technique where they'll burn the plastic and smell the fumes to try to determine the type of plastic.
So, the next time you smell exhaust fumes, salty sea air, or roast chicken, you'll know exactly how you've done it and, perhaps, be a little more thankful that you can.
And these faults would release these petrochemical fumes from underneath the Earth's crust, and the oracle literally sat right above these faults, inhaling enormous amounts of ethylene gas, these fissures.
If you see, all the fumes disappear as soon as you turn this machine on.
A 15-parsec jump leaves you running on fumes, but ready to dock with the precursor space station.
I'm also finding evidence of burning plastic trash, which releases cancer-causing fumes into the air.
If his Godson encountered a sick person and Death was hovering at the top of their bed, the doctor could heal them with just a waft of the antidote’s fumes.
Rolf Bolin, who was a professor at the Hopkin's Marine Station where I work, wrote in the 1940s that "The fumes from the scum floating on the inlets of the bay were so bad they turned lead-based paints black."
There are volumes of volatile petroleum fumes coming off that water, plus the Corexit, which has solvent in it.
I'm very worried about the air-breathing mammals because I study them, but also, the way their going to be exposed is every time they come to the surface to take a breath, they're going to inhale these volatile fumes.
To explain my experience, let me use this word picture: Imagine that you have been binging on pixie sticks and paint fumes for the last month while watching nothing but Twilight Zone reruns.
This film's premise is so simple and obvious that only a Texas millionaire high on oil fumes and whiskey would have a problem understanding it if someone shouted it across the proverbial parking lot.
Godzilla vs Hedorah is insane even by Godzilla standards, a surreal mix of monster mash, message movie, kiddie flick, 1960s educational shorts, groovy protest songs, go-go dancers wearing fish masks, terrible special effects and basic Sesame Street style animated inserts as Friend of the Earth Godzilla takes on a giant toxic flying tadpole that craps acid on him, drowns mah-jong players in excrement and farts deadly toxic fumes over the population of Japan.
Episodes dealing with book banning, oil spills, toxic fumes from household products, and racism seemed a bit out of place and more importantly, took away from the comedy.
But now the talks are running on fumes, with sniping on both sides and the political window for an agreement closing fast.
They often labor under hazardous conditions, handling poisonous chemicals, inhaling noxious fumes, and hauling excessive weights.
Youthful glassmakers in Brazil breathe toxic silicone and arsenic fumes.
A factory may function without emitting disagreeable fumes that are not dangerous, but only if we are prepared to pay for it.
Almost three billion people still burn dung, twigs, and other traditional fuels indoors to cook and keep warm, generating noxious fumes that kill an estimated two million people each year, mostly women and children.
It’s not just Delhi’s notorious diesel fumes from car and truck exhausts.
And stationary vehicles still emit huge quantities of exhaust fumes, damaging the environment and human health.
The second locomotive began sucking fumes two years ago, and is now coasting to a halt, which means that the third – the US as importer of last resort – is losing speed as well: the weak dollar accompanying the housing finance crash makes it unprofitable to export to the US.
The fumes from cooking indoors with firewood and dung will kill more than 1.5 million people this year.
Today, drilling is not only a dirty process characterized by heavy equipment, toxic mud, and sulfurous fumes.
Twenty-nine men, women, and children fleeing crisis-torn countries succumbed to engine fumes in the vessel’s hold.
Volkswagen’s MonkeysMELBOURNE – Late last month, the New York Times reported that researchers used monkeys to test the effects of inhaling diesel fumes from a Volkswagen.
The research, carried out in Albuquerque, New Mexico, involved placing ten monkeys in small airtight containers into which, over a period of four hours, the exhaust fumes were piped.
These monkeys were confined in individual chambers and forced to breathe polluted air, including exhaust fumes from an older Ford truck, which was supposed to enable a comparison with the cleaner Volkswagen.
The combustion of diesel and coal are among the main causes of air pollution, with 3.7 million deaths attributed to outdoor fumes and 4.3 million resulting from poorly ventilated homes.
Sustainable CitiesNEW YORK – To most people, big, densely-populated cities look like ecological nightmares, wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams.
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