Tag: chemistry
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is announced
Today 11:32 LIVE: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is announced After this morning’s miss by the Royal Academy of Sciences, KVA, this year’s Nobel laureate in chemistry did not come…
Chemistry of Death author Simon Beckett on the new series, horror role models and upcoming projects
Simon Beckett’s The Chemistry of Death has been streaming on Paramount+ since January 12, 2023. The books by the British author are particularly popular in this country. Now the first…
First trailer for The Chemistry of Death starring Harry Potter star
Anyone with even the slightest interest in crime novels shouldn’t have missed Simon Beckett’s David Hunter series. The first two books in the book series have now been published as…
So click chemistry may have paved the way for a new cancer drug
A trio of researchers consisting of Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless jointly received the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry because their work has laid the foundation for so-called…
Plastic chemistry: when tires threaten marine life
Every year, 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are released into the marine environment. The proportion of chemical additives contained on average in plastic objects is estimated at approximately 7% of…
BioInspir makes eco-friendly chemistry from invasive alien plants
The young shoot is called BioInspir. Quite simply… In the image of its activity: inventing bio-inspired processes to replace polluting chemical processes. It is not surprising that the approach of…
Silica: what is it?
Silicates are an important family of minerals which represent nearly 95% of the constituents of Earth’s crust. This family includes about 600 species different minerals, whose atomic architecture is characterized…
Crystallography: chemistry of calcite
Calcite, limestone… are everywhere: rocks, building material, marble, lime needed in agriculture, building, industry. They have been used since prehistoric times by all peoples. They are also necessary for living…
Biggest building block in the chemistry of life discovered in a protoplanetary disk
Almost eleven years ago and already, using the network of radio telescope Alma (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) in Chile, astrophysicists brought to the fore the protoplanetary disk of the star…
Picric acid: what is it?
Picric acid is the common name for 2,4,6-trinitrophenol, chemical formula C6H3NOT3O7. In the state solidit is in the form of yellow crystals with the formula (NO2)3VS6H2OH. In the form of…