Chemistry

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Water Fuel Cell - The Alchemist From the 60s
Years ago, in the late 60's I had the pleasure of becoming friends with a reclusive man from eastern Nevada who was known...
Types of Chemical Reactions
All the chemical reactions involve certain changes in the substances and energy. There are basic six types of chemical...
Biochemistry Facts
Biochemistry is the study of important biomolecules and the chemical reactions that facilitate the daily physiological...
Chemical Weathering
Chemical Weathering is weathering as a result of chemical reactions. Read on to know more...
Forensic Chemistry - Using Laboratory Chemicals to Reveal Fingerprints
In forensics labs, there are four kinds of chemical reagents used to expose, or develop, latent (invisible to the naked...
Have You Selected Wrong Materials for Chemicals?
Engineers in such chemical processing plants need to know what materials are suitable to be used for their process. It is...
Explosive Chemicals - How Dangerous are They?
Many people have a natural fear of chemicals that catch fire easily. In fact, I know of some people who became so nervous...
Nanotechnology: Smaller is better
The direction of technology is heading towards nano at breakneck speed. Dr. Feynman envisioned it in 1959 and since then...
Know your Dendrimer
Learn about dendrimers and their properties. The flexibility of the dendrimer ensures that it can be put to use in an array...
Global Warming 'will Leave Arctic Ice-free'
Global warming is causing the Arctic ice-cap to melt at such an unprecedented rate that by the summer of 2070 it may have...
Photoluminescence spectroscopy: New technique for detecting explosives
Although spectroscopy is an old technique, it has been recently applied to the detection of explosives. This technique...
The Story of Plastics
Nowadays, Plastics are taken so much for granted that it seems quite inconceivable that there was ever a time when they...
The Physics and Chemistry of Love
Love, like all things bound to the universe, is non existent without some amount of physics and chemistry attached to it....
Electrokinetics : Overview, History and Theory
Electrokinetics is the study of chemical reactions and molecular motion that can result (or cause) from the division of...
Chemical Warfare: The Beginning
Fritz Haber originally started chemical warfare in 1914. How did it proceed from there into the World War I? What were the...
Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
Based on Groundbreaking Research, a Renowned Anthropologist Sheds New Light on the Mysteries of Romantic Attraction. The...
Saddam Ordered Chemical Attack, Inspector to Claim
The former UN inspector hired by the Bush administration to find evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass...
Chemical Sterilization of Male Puppies Approved
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that it had approved use of a chemical compound to...
A Chemical Weapon Used By the Us in the Vietnam War is Still Damaging New Generations
Nearly 30 years after the Vietnam war, a chemical weapon used by US troops is still exacting a hideous toll on each new...
US accuses Saddam of chemical attack ploy
The US state department claimed yesterday it had received credible reports that Saddam Hussein's regime was planning to use...
'Revolutionary' chemists awarded Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize for chemistry has today been awarded to three chemists who revolutionised the study of large molecules,...
US Scientists Create Polio Virus With Mail Order Chemicals
Scientists in the US have, for the first time, fabricated a working copy of a dangerous disease virus from scratch in the...
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