Forbes Five Things To Know About Heroin's Curious Chemistry History Forbes Bring up the topic of opioid painkillers, and you're almost certain to hear an idea that goes like this: People believed, or were allegedly led to believe, that opioid painkillers pose less of an addiction risk than they actually do. What comes up less ... See the original post here: Five Things To Know About Heroin's Curious Chemistry History - Forbes … Continue reading →

[+]Enlarge DuPont has developed ionomeric resins for making balls that fly farther. Credit: DuPont Manufacturers have taken a fresh swing at the chemistry of golf balls in recent years to make balls that suit every golfer, from the duffers that shank them out of bounds to the latest hot shots who bend them around bunkers on the pro tour. Much of the latest chemistry is designed to make balls that are more controllable or fly fartheror both. Softer balls typically give golfers better control, while harder balls travel faster. The latest golf ball brand names (Max, Rush, TruSpeed, and Velocity) hint at where the technology is headed. About 1.2 billion golf balls are produced every year. There are more than 80 different types of balls of varying construction materials and designs. Although major changes have taken place in ball formulation recently, golf ball technology has been on an upswing for more than 500 years; that is, ever since the game was invented on the eastern coast of Scotland sometime in the 15th century. Back in the day, golfers played with wooden clubs and made their balls from local hardwoods such as beech. In 1618, golf ball technology really began to … Continue reading →

Chicago Tonight | WTTW CPS Chemistry Students to Study Toxic Metals, Environmental Racism Chicago Tonight | WTTW Chemistry students from seven Chicago public high schools will team up with university scientists this summer to study the impact of toxic metal contamination on local communities. The effort is part of a nearly $450,000 National Science Foundation ... Follow this link: CPS Chemistry Students to Study Toxic Metals, Environmental Racism - Chicago Tonight | WTTW … Continue reading →

Jamie Fisher, The Washington Post Chemistry Chemistry Book World: Weike Wang's 'Chemistry' charts a young woman's toxic reaction to stress Chemistry By Weike Wang Knopf. 211 pp. $24.95 --- Weike Wang's "Chemistry" is the most assured novel about indecisiveness you'll ever read. Consider its opening lines: "The boy asks the girl a question. It is a question of marriage. Ask me again tomorrow, she says, and he says, That's not how this works." The boy is Eric; the girl, our narrator, goes unnamed. Both are graduate students in chemistry: He has just graduated; she has one year left. They have been together for four years, and their relationship has reached the point where whenever she invites friends over for dinner, they assume she will announce her engagement. But when Eric really does propose, she hovers, uncertain and unnerved. Eric is cheerful, capable, from small-town Maryland. (The narrator wonders "why he left a place where every ice-cream shop is called a creamery to work seventy-hour weeks in lab.") Their relationship is bashful and enormously endearing. He compliments her vials. When he gets the job offer he's been hoping for, he puts a doily on her head and dances her around the … Continue reading →

[+]Enlarge Smart kid: Coloring an introduction to chemicals. Credit: Neil Garg When his daughter Kaylie was four, University of California, Los Angeles, chemistry professor Neil Garg noticed a disturbing trend: She was scared of chemicals. I would give her something new, and she would say, Is that a chemical? Garg remembers. So Garg set out to help Kaylie and her older sister, Elaina, understand that chemicals are vital to some of their favorite things. Because they love to color, he thought a coloring book might be the perfect vehicle to spread that message to his girls and other kids their age. Garg involved Elaina and Kaylie in creating The Organic Coloring Book, starting with deciding which chemicals to present. We came up with the chemicals that they were curious about, he says. The family started with a chemical question, such as Whats a chemical that makes soap so foamy? Then they determined the chemical answer, presented in the book as a structure. I really liked making the chemical questions. I thought that was fun, Elaina tells Newscripts. Coming up with the chemical answers was cool too. Elainas favorite chemical is dimethylpyrazine, which is a vital part of bacons smell. Kaylies … Continue reading →

By Jamie Fisher By Jamie Fisher June 9 Weike Wangs Chemistry is the most assured novel about indecisiveness youll ever read. Consider its opening lines: The boy asks the girl a question. It is a question of marriage. Ask me again tomorrow, she says, and he says, Thats not how this works. The boy is Eric; the girl, our narrator, goes unnamed. Both are graduate students in chemistry: He has just graduated; she has one year left. They have been together for four years, and their relationship has reached the point where whenever she invites friends over for dinner, they assume she will announce her engagement. But when Eric really does propose, she hovers, uncertain and unnerved. Eric is cheerful, capable, from small-town Maryland. (The narrator wonders why he left a place where every ice-cream shop is called a creamery to work seventy-hour weeks in lab.) Their relationship is bashful and enormously endearing. He compliments her vials. When he gets the job offer hes been hoping for, he puts a doily on her head and dances her around the kitchen. So why wont she say yes? The title Chemistry also, of course, alludes to love. But in Chinese the word … Continue reading →

The 12 Principles of Green Chemistry are a how-to guide written 20 years ago for chemists and chemical engineers. They provide insight on developing new chemicals and chemical processes and for revitalizing existing ones so that they achieve their desired function while being environmentally and economically friendly. Its a creative challenge to put the 12 principles into action. Five technologies that have succeeded in meeting that creative challenge are being recognized with 2017 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. Merck, Dow Chemical, Koehler, Amgen, Bachem, UniEnergy Technologies, and University of Pennsylvania chemistry professor Eric J. Schelter will be honored for their achievements at a ceremony held on Monday, June 12, at the National Academy of Sciences, in Washington, D.C. As the name suggests, the Green Chemistry Challenge Awards encourage chemical companies and academic researchers to improve processes and products and recognizes their successes for developing innovative technologies with demonstrable human health and environmental benefits. These benefits include reducing toxicity of chemical products, reducing the use or generation of hazardous substances, introducing a renewable feedstock, saving water or energy, and reducing waste even if its not hazardous. The awards program was established by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1995 as a competitive effort … Continue reading →