Chemistry

I believe that we should we begin to manufacture one of the most destructive and powerful elements on the planet again? Nuclear chemists and engineers say yes, but the public says no. The United States stopped making this element with …

An atom is the basic unit of matter. It is the smallest particle of an element that retains the chemical properties of that element. The atom is indestructible and can only be seen under the most powerful microscopes. There are …

Penicillin was discovered by a Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming in 1928.1 However, a man named Laureate Howard Walter Florey was the first to use it as a medicine. Fleming found that certain blue-green molds inhibited the growth of the bacteria …

History: No one knows how long rubber has been around. Men have discovered fossils of rubber-producing plants which appear to date back almost 3,000,000 years. Archeologists have dug up crude rubber balls in ruins

of Inca and Mayan civilizations in …

Purpose: To determine the molecular formula of CuSO4 • xH2O using the mass of percent of water.

Hypothesis: The variable x will be 5 and therefore the molecular formula will be CuSO4 • 5H2O.

Materials: • Hot Plate • Beam …

Purpose / Objective: The purpose of chromatography is to separate small amounts of dissolved solids. In this experiment it used to separate the dyes in food coloring.

Materials:
· Ruler to measure the 2 cm from the bottom of paper …

Teacher Summary: This article delves into the fascinating Paternò–Büchi reaction, a light-induced process discovered by Emanuele Paternò and George Büchi. It details the discovery and mechanism of this reaction, which forms oxetane rings through the interaction of carbonyl compounds and …

Molecular Assembly and Disassembly: Photolabile Scaffolds for Molecular Recognition
The last twenty years in the chemical world have been saturated with the unrelenting quest to understand molecular recognition, especially in biological systems. Molecular recognition, although in many ways an old-fashioned …