inorganic arsenic in a single dose of about 100 milligrams can kill by shutting down energy metabolism.
无机砷在单剂量100毫克可以通过减弱能量代谢的进程使人致死。
sensitive as they were, they were unimpressed by levels of arsenic in drinking water or particulates in the air.
如此敏感的一对鼻孔,居然不曾对饮用水中的砷含量或是空气中的悬浮物做出任何反应。
arsenic or cadmium in soils is transported to plant cells and stored in compartments called vacuoles.
土壤中的砷或镉被运送到植物细胞并贮存在被称为液泡的小隔间里。
fluoride in drinking-water is one out of a series of who monographs, which address the management of other chemicals in drinking-water, such as arsenic or cyanotoxins.
《饮用水中的氟化物》是世卫组织系列专着之一,这些专着论述对饮用水中的其他化学品的管理,比如砷或微囊藻毒素。
but it might be time to update that list. because scientists have found a bacterium that can do without phosphorus—live on arsenic instead.
但也许是时候更新这份必需元素目录了,因为科学家们发现一种细菌会用砷来代替磷,不需要磷也可生存。
arsenic is like phosphorus. he takes those two facts, plus the courage to leave blanks, and this is what he gives us.
砷和磷很像,他记住了这两点,在加上敢于留空的勇气,这就是他给我们的。
arsenic is an element poisonous to every other living creature in the planet except for a few specialized microscopic creatures.
砷是一种对地球上所有其他生物有毒的元素,除了对少数特别的极小的生物。
this means the nanochannels could also detect impurities, such as arsenic or mercury, in drinking water.
这意味着纳米通道也可以检测饮用水中的其他如砷、汞的杂质。
he says not only does arsenic belong under phosphorus, i predict that there is an element that lies below aluminum and above indium.
他认为不仅砷属于在磷下面,我预言还有一个元素,是在铝之上和铟的下边的。
some microbes like nothing better than to be nestled in a toxic sludge of heavy metals like zinc, arsenic and cadmium.
对于一些微生物而言,没有什么比生活在充满了锌、砷和镉之类的重金属的有毒淤泥中更加惬意的。
but they're not sure whose advice to trust—with poison pesticide on beans, arsenic in water, and melamine in milk, nothing seems safe to eat.
但他们不能确定该信谁的建议——豆子含有毒农药,水中含砷,奶有三聚氰胺,似乎没有什么是可以安全食用的。
she and her colleagues then began to subject the microbes to sophisticated analyses to see if arsenic had been utilized by the bacteria.
于是,她和她的同事们紧锣密鼓地展开实验将分离出的细菌进行了各种复杂的分析,看砷是否被细菌利用了。
strange bacteria living deep in a california lake can survive on arsenic and can even grow by incorporating the element into its dna and cell membranes.
在加州一处湖泊深处生活的一种奇怪的细菌可以免疫砷的毒性,甚至可以将这种元素吸收进dna和细胞膜中从而生长。
the group is the first to give real-life evidence that arsenic in deeper layers can get into groundwater.
这个团队是第一个能够给出实实在在的证据说明深层地层中的砷会进入地下水的。
and just last month, we set another first: the first national standards for mercury, arsenic and other air pollution from our nation’s power plants.
而且就在上个月,我们确立了另一个第一:针对我们国家发电厂排放的汞、砷、和其他空气污染的第一个全国标準。