Chemistry
Conventional wisdom has it that proton transfers can only happen using hydrogen bonds as conduits, “proton wires” of hydrogen-bonded networks that can connect and reconnect to alter molecular properties....
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At some point this year, after NASA’s rover Curiosity has landed on Mars, a laser will fire a beam of infrared light at a rock or soil sample.....
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Almost everyone has seen the Periodic Table of the Elements, the chart gracing walls of science classrooms that shows relationships between the chemical elements that make up everything on Earth — and beyond....
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Sandia’s decontamination foam, developed more than a decade ago and used to decontaminate federal office buildings and mailrooms during the 2001 anthrax attacks, is now being used to decontaminate illegal methamphetamine labs.
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A team of University of Arkansas researchers, including an Honors College undergraduate student, has created a new, “green” method for developing medicines.
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This technique holds promise for the creation of catalytic materials that can serve as effective low-cost alternatives to platinum for generating hydrogen gas from water that is acidic.
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Removing the smell of new carpet from a room may eventually be a matter of turning the lights on or off.
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In a breakthrough paper published in this week’s issue of Science magazine, Sandia researchers and their partners report direct measurements of reactions of a gas-phase Criegee intermediate using photoionization mass spectrometry.
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Engineers Make ‘Building Blocks of Chemical Industry’ From Wood While Boosting Production 40 Percent
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Berkeley Lab scientists push chemistry to the edge, testing plans for a new generation of light sources.
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Catalysts are one of those things that few people think much about, beyond perhaps in high school chemistry, but they make the world tick. Almost everything in your daily life depends on catalysts.
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Scientists of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)-Dubna collaboration proposed the names as Flerovium for element 114 and Livermorium for element 116.
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