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- noun Plural form of
biradical .
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"Plants will release these compounds, make the biradicals and end up making sulphuric acid, so in effect the ecosystem can negate the warming effect by producing these cooling aerosols," Percival said.
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The greatest cooling effect could be potentially felt in areas where there are high concentrations of both alkenes and pollutants, which enable the biradicals to react.
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"Plants will release these compounds, make the biradicals and end up making sulphuric acid, so in effect the ecosystem can negate the warming effect by producing these cooling aerosols," Percival said.
Reuters: Top News 2012
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In a paper published in the journal Science on Thursday, researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Bristol, and the U.S.-based Sandia National Laboratories detected the new molecules, called Criegee biradicals, using a powerful light source 100 million times stronger than the sun.
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"We found the biradicals could oxidise sulfur dioxide, which eventually turns into sulphuric acid, which has a known cooling effect," Carl Percival, one of the study's authors and a reader in atmospheric chemistry at the University of Manchester, told Reuters.
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"The biradicals themselves are not a geo-engineering candidate," Percival said, referring to radical ways of cooling the planet down, such as artificial volcanoes or whitening the clouds to make them reflect more sunlight.
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In a paper published in the journal Science on Thursday, researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Bristol, and the U.S.-based Sandia National Laboratories detected the new molecules, called Criegee biradicals, using a powerful light source 100 million times stronger than the sun.
Reuters: Top News 2012
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"We found the biradicals could oxidise sulphur dioxide, which eventually turns into sulphuric acid, which has a known cooling effect," Carl Percival, one of the study's authors and a reader in atmospheric chemistry at the University of Manchester, told Reuters.
Reuters: Top News 2012
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The greatest cooling effect could be potentially felt in areas where there are high concentrations of both alkenes and pollutants, which enable the biradicals to react.
Reuters: Top News 2012
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"The biradicals themselves are not a geo-engineering candidate," Percival said, referring to radical ways of cooling the planet down, such as artificial volcanoes or whitening the clouds to make them reflect more sunlight.
Reuters: Top News 2012
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