More dust means more scavenging of zinc particles, leading to less zinc being available to sustain phytoplankton and other marine life, thereby diminishing the oceans' ability to absorb carbon. Share: ...

A new review article published in the Journal of Environmental Management summarizes the current state of knowledge on the ...

The team took some pure zinc oxide particles (ranging from 80 to 200 nm size) and incubated them in different kinds of environmental solutions for a week, allowing their natural stabilisation.

PARTICLES of a zinc oxide powder cluster together due to the electrostatic forces acting between the individual particles. These clusters can be reduced to a minimum by the technique described ...

As the battery drains energy, the zinc particles become encased in zinc oxide shells. This restricts their movement, and the connections between those zinc particles grow, displacing water.

The combination of zinc and the associated particles sink below the surface layer and “we observe a decrease in organic zinc particles and a transition to inorganic zinc particles. We found that ...

Cloete said that because of poor growing conditions in winter, zinc particles are “literally ‘scavenged’ by inorganic solids such as silica, abundantly available in the form of diatoms, ...

Another approach is to deliver the zinc as particles smaller than 100 nanometres, which can fit through microscopic pores in leaves and accumulate in a plant.

The understanding of the global Zinc cycle in our oceans has important implications in the context of warming oceans. A warmer climate increases erosion, leading to more dust in the atmosphere and ...