Saw this label while looking for whitening toothpaste at target today and I just want to say that as an aspiring species of chemist I LOVE this and I think all companies should do this on their labels to eradicate all of the fears about “ooky spooky chemicals” that Facebook moms and politicians like to cry about (and it would also make it harder to hide the ones that are actually harmful). “Don’t use it if you can’t pronounce it!” Take an organic chemistry class. Most of the time it has a purpose in order for the product to work, you’ll be okay I promise.
its always “why did you drink chemicals” and “oh my god what’s happening to you” and never How was drinking chemicals The chemicals looked fun were they fun
“The team created a composite of boron nitride and titanium dioxide and discovered that they had a substance with the best of both worlds. It was activated by the UV light in the atmosphere and it was capable of destroying PFOA very quickly. In deionized water, it took less than three hours to break down 99 percent of the PFOA into carbon dioxide, fluorine, and minerals. In salty water, the process takes about nine hours.
The team will now investigate how good this substance is at breaking down other perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) – the broader class of forever chemicals.”
There’s been a lot in the news about PFAS lately--there is tremendous effort being put into addressing this issue and, while faster would be better, progress is being made.
My friend requested a mad scientist blinkie, and I made two prototypes before settling on the first design. I decided to put them all together so that they're a set.
In a major stride towards sustainable industrial fermentation, a team of researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands, has unveiled pioneering advancements in the purification of isopropanol and acetone from the fermentation of waste gases. The study, published in the Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, introduces novel processes that promise to elevate the efficiency and viability of large-scale production.
Isopropanol and acetone have a combined global market of $10 billion. Both chemicals are important industry solvents, and isopropanol also has significant applications as a pharmaceutical ingredient due to its low toxicity. Conventional production relies on fossil carbon-dependent methods, which are becoming less favorable as stricter environmental regulations come into place.
One thing I'd like to see more is utilization of smells in whump. There isn't much mention of it but when you think about the scenarios these whumpees are in, it adds another layer. Whumpees who haven't been able to wash in who knows how long, living with their body odor and sweat and oils. Whumpees who have been ill, unable to escape that stuffy sick smell of vomit and artificially sweet cough syrup. The stinging, clinical, chemical smells of a lab or medical facility. The metallic tang of blood. And on the other hand, comforting smells too. The smell of warm soup, of freshly laundered blankets, of their familiar caretaker when they give them a hug. Let's use all of the senses here!
"I tend to think of human beings as rubbery test tubes with chemical reactions boiling inside."
"So it's a great temptation for me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is the way he is because his wires broke down, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals he ingested or didn't ingest that day."