The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) released documentation last month that provides details on allowed additives that do not need to be labeled on ...

This lab includes a theoretical explanation of how buffers work and how they are made, including a derivation of the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation. Students will use what they have learned to ...

As an engineering plastic having high transparency and impact resistance, polycarbonate (PC) is employed in eyeglass lenses, camera lenses, DVDs, automobile headlights and bulletproof glass. The ...

Although Charles Hall conducted his first successful run of the Hall-Héroult aluminium smelting process in the woodshed behind his house, it has ever since remained mostly out of reach of home ...

A high school friend once related the story about how his father, a chemist for an environmental waste concern, disposed of a problematic quantity of metallic sodium by dumping it into one of the more ...

Electrolysis is a process in which electrical energy, from a direct current, DC supply, breaks down electrolytes in a solution. There are a variety of ways of carrying out electrolysis. This ...

NCERT Class 10 Science Chapter 1 Intext Question Answer: Chemical Reactions and Equations are an important part of the Class 10 Science curriculum that helps students understand the various types of ...

Often called "white carbon", amorphous precipitated silica is an integral component of the tread compound used for fuel-efficient tires. The manufacturing process for amorphous precipitated silica is ...

If you weren't a chemist, you'd know sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) as bleach, or possibly as the "chlorine" you put in your swimming pool or spa. NaClO solution is a convenient way to handle chlorine in ...