College of Environmental Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, Key Laboratory of Urban Water Supply, Water Saving and Water Environment Governance in ...

I’m always very happy to read about new methods of introducing fluorine atoms into organic molecules, because (like most medicinal chemists!) I consider the element an old friend of mine. Back before ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, General Fusion, a Canadian company specializing in nuclear fusion technology, has set a world record by generating 600 million neutrons per second using Magnetized ...

Adding fluorine to drug molecules can be tricky, but is often worthwhile. Rachel Brazil talks to the chemists trying to tame the ninth element Article summary Significance of fluorine in ...

This mixture was dominated by quarks – fundamental bits of matter – and by gluons, carriers of the strong force that normally “glue” quarks together into familiar protons and neutrons and other ...

A few millionths of a second later, quarks aggregated to produce protons and neutrons. Within minutes, these protons and neutrons combined into nuclei. As the universe continued to expand and cool, ...

Out of the 18 dental flosses tested, six brands contained detectable levels of fluorine, a marker of PFAS. Two store-brand floss products with "compare to Oral-B Glide" labels and one with "Teflon ...