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The complex chemistry of making paper
Apr 4, 2023 · Performance-enhancing chemicals address the process chemistry side of manufacturing, ensuring that each stage runs smoothly. Defoamers and dispersants tackle practical issues such as foaming and clumping in the pulping vats, while cleaning and descaling treatments ensure water quality meets the required standards.
Explainer: The science of alkyl nitrites aka poppers
Sep 16, 2021 · From the 1960s onwards, poppers became established as a recreational drug, with various alkyl nitrites produced, including isopropyl nitrite, isobutyl nitrite and butyl nitrite, to get around legal restrictions.The drug was widely used by clubbers for a brief time in the 1990s, but plays a continued role in gay subculture.
Physical chemistry textbook now free to download as a ‘gift’ to the ...
May 23, 2024 · The retired Oxford professor said he had opted to give the e-book away – as part of a special collaboration with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) – as a ‘gift and a thanks to the community’ who have given his other books a ‘loyal following’ over the years.
AlphaFold developer says AI is just getting started in science
Nov 22, 2024 · ‘I really do hope that in time we will see AlphaFold as one of the first AI systems that deeply mattered [for] biology but just one of many, many that did,’ Jumper said during a symposium to honour this year’s Nobel prize laureates at the Swedish embassy in Washington DC held in partnership with the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
Explainer: The chemistry of farts | News | Chemistry World
Dec 21, 2016 · Consequently, De Lacy Costello and his colleagues have moved beyond the most common gases to studying volatile compounds released from faeces in very low concentrations. 6 Initially, they mimicked conditions in the large intestine by mixing faeces and nutrient medium in a container. They absorbed volatile chemicals onto plastic fibres above the mixture or pumped out through a tube, to be ...
One-electron covalent bond between two carbons pushes limits of …
Oct 4, 2024 · ‘The strategy … involves stretching the bond in the parent molecule and tuning the energies of the molecular orbitals,’ says Cate Anstöter, a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh who was not involved in the study.‘It’s a real …
Explainer: Why is mixing cleaning chemicals such a bad idea?
Apr 23, 2020 · Accidental poisonings in the US have risen dramatically during the Covid-19 lockdown. They are up 20% in the first three months of 2020 compared with last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There were 45,550 calls related to exposure to disinfectant and cleaning agents, almost two-thirds of the incidents involving bleach and most of the others non-alcohol ...
Ink chemistry | News | Chemistry World
A colourful palette Pigments are considered to be the chief constituent of an ink and contribute about 50 per cent of its cost. A pigment is essentially any particulate solid - coloured, black, white or fluorescent - that alters the appearance of an object by the selective absorption and/or scattering of light.
Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
Sep 6, 2023 · A world-beating deposit of lithium along the Nevada–Oregon border could meet surging demand for this metal, according to a new analysis.. An estimated 20 to 40 million tonnes of lithium metal lie within a volcanic crater formed around 16 million years ago.