Cordyceps /ËkÉrdÉsÉps/ is a genus of ascomycete fungi (sac fungi) that includes about 400 species.All Cordyceps species are endoparasitoids, parasitic mainly on insects and other arthropods (they are thus entomopathogenic fungi); a few are parasitic on other fungi.rom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Cordyceps /ËkÉrdÉsÉps/ is a genus of ascomycete fungi (sac fungi) that includes about 400 species. All Cordyceps species are endoparasitoids, parasitic mainly on insects and other arthropods (they are thus entomopathogenic fungi); a few are parasitic on other fungi.
As verbs the difference between oxidize and tarnish is that oxidize is (chemistry|transitive) to combine with oxygen or otherwise make an oxide while tarnish is to oxidize or discolor due to oxidation. As a noun tarnish is oxidation or discoloration, especially of a decorative metal exposed to air.s verbs the difference between metal and tarnish is that metal is to make a road using crushed rock, stones etc while tarnish is to oxidize or discolor due to oxidation. As a adjective metal is (music) characterized by strong, fast drum-beats and distorted guitars.
1 There is 24 percent more CO2 embedded in a barrel of tar sands bitumen than in a barrel of light oil. 2  15 to 30 percent of a barrel of tar sands bitumen can end up as petcoke, depending on the upgrading and refining process used. 3  Of 134 operating U.S. refineries in 2012, 59 are equipped to produce petcoke.ut as bad as these impacts already are, existing analyses of the impacts of tar sands fail to account for a byproduct of the process that is a major source of climate change causing carbon emissions: petroleum coke â known as petcoke.