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Here are examples of materials that are hard to recycle ... Organic waste decomposes and creates carbon dioxide and methane gas. Methane is produced when no air is present, while carbon dioxide is the ...

Examples of nonrenewable resources include fossil fuels, oil, natural gas, and coal ... of these substances are made out of organic carbon material, depending on the form it takes after heating ...

To get an idea of the scale of mining for raw materials involved in replacing the world’s gasoline and diesel-fueled cars with EVs, we can take the example of the UK as provided by Michael Kelly ...

For example, a pile of MOF material the size of a pea has an internal surface area ... similar to the way your smoke detector works to sense one type of gas over another based on its reactivity,” said ...

There have been many examples of gas detection that use luminescence quenching by energy transfer between gases and luminescent materials 4,5. However, only a limited number of gases, such as O 2 ...

The group has developed a new laser-based device that can take any sample of gas and identify a huge variety of the molecules within it. It is sensitive enough to detect those molecules at minute ...

A team at the University of California has engineered a microscopic material that can capture the greenhouse gas CO2. If you wanted to scrub carbon dioxide pollution from the air around us ...

Sunlight and wind, for example, are such sources that are constantly being replenished. Renewable energy sources are plentiful and all around us. Fossil fuels - coal, oil and gas - on the other ...