News tagged with table salt
It's elemental: Paper celebrates discovery of iodine
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's not every day that an element gets to celebrate a bicentennial, and a University of Delaware professor is pleased to have been invited to the "birthday party" for iodine, which was discovered ...
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Packing in six times more storage density with the help of table salt
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr Joel Yang from the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), a research institute of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research, with collaborators from ...
Oct 14, 2011 |
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Some salt consumption deemed good for blood pressure
An increased intake of 'good' potassium salts could contribute significantly to improving blood pressure at the population level. The favorable effect brought about by potassium is even estimated to be comparable with the ...
Sep 14, 2010 |
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Researchers develop cheap, easy 'kitchen chemistry' to perform formerly complex synthesis
A team at The Scripps Research Institute has made major strides in solving a problem that has been plaguing chemists for many years: how best to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and then to create new bonds to join molecules together. ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Receptor activated exclusively by glutamate discovered on tongue
One hundred years ago, Kikunae Ikeda discovered the flavour-giving properties of glutamate, a non essential amino acid traditionally used to enhance the taste of many fermented or ripe foods, such as ripe ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 09, 2009 |
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Chemist's discovery of new salt jumpstarts extended-life battery research for electric vehicles
A University of Rhode Island chemistry professor's discovery of a new salt has been received with enthusiasm by companies seeking to develop an advanced lithium ion battery for use in the next generation of hybrid and electric ...
May 12, 2009 |
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