As we get ready for winter here and watch news reports of unseasonable plummeting temperatures in some parts of North America, it is hard to be concerned about global warming. But climate change is...
Shrek the friendly ogre delighted audiences in the 2010 movie hit 鈥淪hrek Forever After.鈥� But for fast food giant McDonald鈥檚, Shrek turned out to be a nightmare. As a cross promotional feature, the...
Wood burning stoves are a health hazard. Period. Not debatable. To understand, we first have to examine what combustion is all about. When cellulose and lignin, the major components of wood, burn...
Since World War I, the U.S. Armed Forces have routinely discarded conventional explosives, radiological waste and chemical weapons in the oceans. When this was publicly revealed by the Department...
Vanilla is the most popular flavor in North America. But it is not that often that one gets the chance to taste the 鈥渞eal stuff鈥�. The flavor made from the beans of the vanilla orchid is expensive....
You may want them in your jeans, but you probably want to keep them away from your genes. They鈥檙e 鈥渘ano鈥� particles of titanium dioxide, about ten billionths of a meter in diameter that can exhibit...
What comes to mind when you think of arsenic?聽 Inheritance powder?聽 The possible murder of Napoleon?聽 Poisoned wells in Bangladesh?聽 Well, how about playgrounds, decks or picnic tables?聽 Concern...
During the 1930s, Swiss chemist Pierre Castan was researching materials for denture repair and American Sylvan Greenlee was working on novel paints. Independently, the two hit upon epoxy resins,...
You may have heard of propylene glycol in several contexts. It is used as a safer alternative to ethylene glycol in antifreeze, as a preservative in foods and cosmetics, as a solvent in some...
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