We鈥檝e seen it before. A medical crisis emerges and the scam artists crawl out of the woodwork. Fearful citizens pop open their wallets and fork out hard-earned money for nonsensical 鈥渃ures.鈥� When...
Most chemistry conferences these days feature a session on the 鈥減ublic understanding of chemistry.鈥� Usually speakers express frustration about equating the term 鈥渃hemical鈥� with 鈥渢oxin鈥� or 鈥減oison,鈥�...
You use cathodic protection聽to prevent iron from rusting. The rusting of iron is an expensive process. It is estimated that the deterioration of iron due to corrosion costs billions of dollars a...
No, you don鈥檛 eat it. Neither is it meant to limber up the arthritic joints of snails. You massage it into your face to improve complexion, reduce wrinkles and improve scar lines. At least that鈥檚...
The walls of refrigerators have to be heavily insulated in order to maintain efficient cooling. Polyurethane foam insulation has been the classic material used for this purpose and guess what it...
Chemistry is all about mixing things. But you have to know what you are doing. A lady was complaining to a neighbor about an infestation of mice in her house. The well-meaning friend had a...
At present wind turbines produce a little over 2% of Canada鈥檚 electricity. 聽The industry鈥檚 goal is to have this number go up to 20%聽by 2025 leading to a rapid expansion of wind farms around the...
To protect the trees from attack by the mountain pine beetle. The little bags contain verbenone, a chemical normally released by beetles as they lay their eggs just under the bark of a pine tree,...
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