Abstract: Electrical contacts are critically important for a wide variety of applications, including computing, automotive, manufacturing, and renewable energy technologies. Due to a combination of ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 13, 2025) A study in Environmental Science & Technology shows that maternal exposure to organophosphate (OP) and pyrethroid insecticides adversely affects newborn health.

IN the course of an investigation conducted on behalf of the Broken Hill South, North Broken Hill, Zinc Corporation, Electrolytic Zinc, Mount Lyell, and Burma Corporation Mining Companies, ...

In the 1970s, tribology was mainly a mechanical engineering discipline focused on contact stresses and lubricant film thickness under varying loads and speeds. With growing computing power, ...

Zinc dialkyl dithiophosphates (ZDDPs) are very effective antiwear agents that are used as machine lubricants (e.g., greases, hydraulic oils, and motor oils), including applications in the automotive ...

Back in the 1980's there was a Valvoline ad campaign using a series of laconic drivers at the wheel of cars fully invested in their smoking death throes who used the tag line "Motor oil is motor oil." ...

1 Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, College of Engineering, Technology and Physical Sciences, Alabama A & M University, Normal, AL, USA. 2 Chemistry Department, Al-Aqsa University, ...