CHARCOAL 2 (IMAGE)

Rice University

CHARCOAL 2

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Artificial enzymes made of charcoal nanoparticles heavily oxidized with fuming nitric acid (HNO3) could have the power to quench superoxides, toxic radical oxygen ions that appear at high concentrations in organisms after an injury.

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Tour Group/Rice University

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