domingo, 9 de agosto de 2009

ISOPRENE FROM PLANTS

Isoprene is no minor player in atmospheric chemistry, Wennberg notes. "There is much more isoprene emitted to the atmosphere than all of the gases—gasoline, industrial chemicals—emitted by human activities, with the important exceptions of methane and carbon dioxide," he says. "And isoprene only comes from plants. They make hundreds of millions of tons of this chemical . . . for reasons that we still do not fully understand.

From http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090806141518.htm

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