According to Brønsted – Lowry acid-base theory, acids are substances that donate a positive hydrogen ion to another substance in a chemical reaction ; by extension, a base is the substance which receives that hydrogen ion.

According to IUPAC, chemical elements are not proper nouns in English ; consequently, the full name of an element is not routinely capitalized in English, even if derived from a proper noun, as in californium and einsteinium.

According to Christopher Lipinski and Andrew Hopkins, " Whether the aim is to discover drugs or to gain knowledge of biological systems, the nature and properties of a chemical tool cannot be considered independently of the system it is to be tested in.

According to a 1998 report created by William Brankowitz, a deputy project manager in the U. S. Army Chemical Materials Agency, the Army created at least 26 chemical weapons dump sites in the ocean off at least 11 states on both the west and east coasts.

According to the prevailing beliefs of the 1960s, a chemical can be classified as a neurotransmitter if it meets the following conditions:

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first figurative use of the term appeared in the 1902 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica relating to an entry on the chemical analysis of glucose.

According to one report, virtually all the large underground fresh-water supplies in Uzbekistan are polluted by industrial and chemical wastes.

According to Smithsonian curator Dr. Jeffrey Post, the element boron may be responsible for causing the blue color of the stones after tests using infrared light measured a chemical spectrum of the gems.

According to Carbide, " in designing the plant's safety systems, a chemical reaction of this magnitude was not factored in " because " the tank's gas storage system was designed to automatically prevent such a large amount of water from being inadvertently introduced into the system " and " process safety systems — in place and operational — would have prevented water from entering the tank by accident ".

According to Nature, 5, 000 animals are used for each chemical being tested, with 12, 000 needed to test pesticides.

" According to an unnamed Pentagon source quoted by Hersh, the OSP " was created in order to find evidence of what Wolfowitz and his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, believed to be true — that Saddam Hussein had close ties to Al Qaeda, and that Iraq had an enormous arsenal of chemical, biological, and possibly even nuclear weapons that threatened the region and, potentially, the United States.

* According to U. S. Intelligence, China, with help from France and Syria, has secretly sold to Iraq the prohibited chemical Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene, or HTPB, which is used in making solid fuel for long-range missiles.

According to Department of Defense personnel with whom Arkin spoke, Central Command chief Anthony Zinni insisted that the U. S. only attack biological and chemical sites that " had been identified with a high degree of certainty.

According to Hiltermann, the literature on the Iran-Iraq war reflects a number of allegations of chemical weapons use by Iran, but these are " marred by a lack of specificity as to time and place, and the failure to provide any sort of evidence ".

According to the data gathered by the Pic du Midi observatory, planets like Mars or Venus had atmospheres in chemical equilibrium.

According to former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, she had voiced doubts that the factory had ties to al Qaeda or was producing chemical weapons.

According to Lunev, a probable scenario in the event of war would be poisoning of Potomac River with chemical or biological weapons, " targeting the residents of Washington DC " He also noted that it is " likely " that GRU operatives have placed already " poison supplies near the tributaries to major US reservoirs.

According to the film, " recent tests conducted at the CSI Suffolk Crime lab in New York demonstrate that the patina ( a chemical film encrustation on the box ) from the James ossuary matches the patina from the other ossuaries in the Talpiot tomb.

According to this type of view, social properties supervene on psychological properties, psychological properties supervene on biological properties, biological properties supervene on chemical properties, etc.

According to a 1999 NRDC study, in which roughly 22 percent of brands were tested, at least one sample of bottled drinking water contained chemical contaminants at levels above strict state health limits.

According to Thomas Körner, the discovery that his meteorological work was of value to chemical weapons designers led him to abandon all his efforts in this field, and destroy findings that he had yet to publish.

According to a 2011 salary survey by the American Institution of Chemical Engineers ( AIChE ), the median annual salary for a chemical engineer was approximately $ 110, 000.

According to Mohorovičić, a layered structure would explain the observation of depths where seismic waves change speed and the difference in chemical composition between rocks from the crust and those from the mantle.

According to historians Yoshiaki Yoshimi and Seiya Matsuno, Hirohito authorized by specific orders, transmitted by the Chief of staff of the Army such as Prince Kan ' in or Hajime Sugiyama, the use of chemical weapons against Chinese civilians and soldiers.

According to former stage manager David Blayney ( 15 years with ZZ Top ) in his book, Sharp Dressed Men, sound engineer Linden Hudson co-wrote much of the material on the album as a live-in high-tech music teacher to Beard and Gibbons.

According to NASA engineer Jerry Woodfill, duct tape had been stowed on board every mission since early in the Gemini days.

According to Free Software Foundation compliance engineer David Turner, the term viral license creates a misunderstanding and a fear of using copylefted free software.

According to Ben Rich ’ s memoir, an engineer showed up to work one day wearing a Civil Defense gas mask as a gag.

According to Charles Baldwin, an environmental-health engineer who contributed to its development: " We wanted something that was memorable but meaningless, so we could educate people as to what it means.

According to NATO, " Military Engineering is that engineer activity undertaken, regardless of component or service, to shape the physical operating environment.

According to Black Flag's engineer and live sound man Spot, a nearly complete version of Damaged was recorded at Golden Age Studios with Dez Cadena doing vocal duties.

According to one account, Jourdan wished to renew the left attack, but Carnot, the engineer, considered the Wattignies plateau the key of the position and his opinion prevailed.

According to the chief engineer for the 2008 Chrysler Sebring, Jim Issner, the windblocker for the Sebring reduces " wind noise by approximately 11 to 12 decibels ".

According to development engineer Dave Lauzun, during construction, the Karmann-made tops are dropped into a body that is largely identical: both soft-top and retractable feature the same automatic tonneau cover, luggage divider and luggage space.

" According to Charles G. Koch, " Virtually every engineer he worked with was purged.

According to Carsten Diercks, camera operator and filmmaker at West-German Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk ( NWDR ) during the 1950s, pilottone was invented at the NWDR studio in Hamburg-Lokstedt, West Germany by NWDR technical engineer Adalbert Lohmann and his assistant Udo Stepputat in the early 1950s for single-camera 16mm TV news gathering and documentaries.

According to the book The Panama Canal: An Army's Enterprise, Goethals made such an impression on President Taft in DC that he later recommended him as an engineer for the Panama Canal.

According to Graham Lees, Radiohead's touring audio engineer, " The Bass guitar is DI-ed and Mic-ed with a Sennheiser 609.

According to trial testimony in 2006, Dr. Saeed advised Rusty, a former NASA engineer, not to leave his patient unattended.

According to legend, Kato Kiyomasa, a renowned general and castle engineer, hauled a large stone, that was later named after him, to the castle.

According to IBM engineer Bob Dubke, Titor's statements regarding the IBM 5100's little-known ability to emulate and debug mainframe systems were correct.

According to Joe Chiccarelli, engineer for Icky Thump, White is not very technical when it comes to capturing his sound on record: " Usually he wouldn't talk in terms of compression or EQ or any of those things, it was always about what can we do to give something more aggression or hit you in the face more.

According to the Australian government, an electrical " power-board " was invented in 1972 by Australian electrical engineer Peter Talbot working under Frank Bannigan, Managing Director of Australian company Kambrook.

According to Magnet # 569 ( 1919 ), Dutton wants to be an engineer.

According to Pound, a lawmaker acts as a social engineer by attempting to solve problems in society using law as a tool.

According to the structural engineer, Bill Baker of SOM, the building's design incorporates cultural and historical elements particular to the region.

According to other accounts, he participated as a military engineer and artillery commander in the campaigns against Novgorod ( 1477-1478 ), Kazan ( 1482 ) and Tver ( 1485 ).