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Explainer: The chemistry of farts | News | Chemistry World
2016年12月21日 — 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 ...
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The complex chemistry of making paper
2023年4月4日 — 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 chemistry that keeps swimming pools clean and safe
2022年8月4日 — 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.
History of noble gases | Feature | Chemistry World
2016年9月9日 — The Academy has a system called the pli cacheté, or sealed packet, whereby a scientist can deposit an account of an idea or a discovery. This would be sealed, numbered and kept until it could be opened by the depositor if they wanted to …
Why are there 20 amino acids? | Feature | Chemistry World
2018年9月17日 — How the proteinogenic amino acids came to be on earth is another crucial question. The famous Miller–Urey experiment from 1952 showed that with electric sparks simulating lightning, simple compounds like water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen would form well over 20 different amino acids. 1 They are also found in meteorites: analysis of the Murichison meteorite, which landed in Australia in ...
Explainer: The science of alkyl nitrites aka poppers
2021年9月16日 — 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: Why is mixing cleaning chemicals such a bad idea?
2020年4月23日 — 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 ...