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March 29, 2007
Category: Food
Via Fark: a blog last week remarked about McDonald's chicken products, quoting The Omnivore's Dilemma:: But perhaps the most alarming ingredient in a Chicken McNugget is tertiary butylhydroquinone, or TBHQ, an antioxidant derived from petroleum that is either sprayed directly...
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March 28, 2007
Category: Food
The American Chemical Society is having its Spring meeting as we speak. One neat thing about a meeting that tries to take on as broad a field as "chemistry" is that there's all kinds of stuff there. Some of it...
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March 27, 2007
Category: Drugs
Chloral hydrate was in the news yesterday because it showed up in the autopsy report for Anna Nicole Smith....
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March 26, 2007
Category: Drugs
Friday's entry was on juvenile hormone, an epoxide-containing species (as in epoxy, see here and here). Today, I'll show you an example of how we've used it to battle bugs....
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March 24, 2007
Category: Drugs
Special Saturday edition of MoTD: aminopterin....
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March 23, 2007
Category: Biology
Epoxides aren't just found in glue and disinfectants (see here and here. They also occur occasionally in nature (not too often, since they're very strained, high-energy structures - this is why they're so reactive and useful). One such example is...
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March 22, 2007
Category: Polymers
Yesterday's entry on epichlorohydrin got us halfway to an epoxy resin, with the aid of good old bisphenol A. In that other tube, you'll often find some sort of amine, which, when mixed with a prepolymer like that formed with...
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March 21, 2007
Category: Polymers
Yesterday's entry on epoxides may have brought to mind epoxies. The similarity isn't a coincidence. Chloromethylepoxide, or "epichlorohydrin," is the basis for many epoxy adhexives....
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March 20, 2007
Category: Topologically/Geometrically Interesting
Ethylene oxide is the simplest possible epoxide, or three-membered cyclic ether:...
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March 16, 2007
Category: Dyes
Edit: Looks like I might be off on this. If you're in Chicago, the river will be green this weekend. For that, you can thank fluorescein:...
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