In the chemical industry, the selective cleavage and oxidation of carbon–hydrogen (C–H) bonds, called "oxidative C–H functionalization" is an essential step in the production of many solvents, polymers, and surfactants, ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 7, 2022
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The effect of nitric acid on aerosol particles in the atmosphere may offer an explanation for the smog seen engulfing cities on frosty days. Under laboratory conditions, researchers at CERN in Switzerland observed the formation ...
Environment
May 27, 2020
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The region around the Mississippi River town of Galena, Illinois, ran on lead for the better part of a century.
Earth Sciences
Jun 18, 2019
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In the future, the clothes you wear could be made from sugar. Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have discovered a new chemical process that can convert adipic acid directly from sugar.
Materials Science
Apr 1, 2014
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Producing second-generation biofuel from dead plant tissue is environmetally friendly - but it is also expensive because the process as used today needs expensive enzymes, and large companies dominate this market. Now a Danish/Iraqi ...
Biotechnology
Feb 24, 2014
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An enzyme in the bacterium that causes potato scab could help create new, environmentally-benign biocatalysts with the potential to cut use of the highly corrosive chemical nitric acid.
Biochemistry
Sep 21, 2012
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Whether it is a pond or raindrop, when a common nitrogen-containing acid encounters water's surface, it typically falls apart, dissociating into two charged particles. Except, sometimes it is able to hold it together, not ...
Materials Science
Mar 14, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As with many of man's most basic ancient desires; to be able to fly, to become invisible etc. making it rain on command (or by prayer) has always been high on the list, and up to now, has proved more elusive ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many rockets, satellites, and spacecraft are driven by hydrazine, sometimes with an oxidizing agent like nitric acid or dinitrogen tetroxide. When filling tanks with these highly toxic substances, technicians ...
Materials Science
May 27, 2011
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A team of scientists led by researchers from the California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have fully characterized a key chemical reaction that affects the formation of pollutants in smoggy ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2010
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