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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.
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 ...
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 ...
ChemSpider | Review | Chemistry World
Oct 2, 2009 · ChemSpider is a chemistry search engine, aggregating and indexing chemical structures and their associated information into a single searchable repository, and free at that.
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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: The chemistry that keeps swimming pools clean and safe
Aug 4, 2022 · It’s the middle of summer with record high temperatures throughout Europe, the US and elsewhere, and people everywhere are turning to outdoor swimming pools for respite.
The chemistry of love | Feature | Chemistry World
Feb 12, 2024 · The basic science behind romantic love has been developed from animal observations and extrapolated. ‘There are observable behaviours for pair bonding such as [animals] nest, they prefer each other, they’re aggressive towards intruders, they travel together, they groom one another,’ explains Bianca Acevedo, a research scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the US.