{"id":147162,"date":"2022-09-27T19:26:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T00:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/researchers-identify-african-dust"},"modified":"2022-09-27T19:26:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T00:26:27","slug":"researchers-identify-african-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/researchers-identify-african-dust","title":{"rendered":"Researchers identify African dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-identify-african-dust.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every summer, weather forecasters blast news about African dust plumes crossing the southern United States. And to most people, it\u2019s just dust, but to researchers at Texas A&amp;M University, it\u2019s much more.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a new method called isotope-resolved chemical mass balance to identify dust participles using isotopic measurements. Their new research builds off previous studies where they identified and quantified the dust by determining the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/elemental+composition\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">elemental composition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study was recently published in Environmental Science &amp; Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every summer, weather forecasters blast news about African dust plumes crossing the southern United States. And to most people, it\u2019s just dust, but to researchers at Texas A&amp;M University, it\u2019s much more. Researchers have developed a new method called isotope-resolved chemical mass balance to identify dust participles using isotopic measurements. Their new research builds off [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}