Molecules: You'd better learn to live with them.
April 28, 2008
Category: Medicine
Niacin is also known as Vitamin B3. Interestingly, it's also called "nicotinic acid," and the similarity of the name to "nicotine" isn't coincidental:...
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April 23, 2008
Category: Medicine
Is paying $5/liter for Fiji water not cutting it? Trying to come up with a more environmentally abhorrent, gauche hydration accessory? How would you feel about $1,000/liter, along with some iffy health benefits?...
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April 20, 2008
Category: Inorganic
Oscillating reactions are neat; I should write up one of my favorites sometime... Here, electrons flow from iron metal to mercury (I) sulfate to chromium (VI) oxide. Listen to the video for a step-by step explanation......
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April 18, 2008
Category: Not Really a Molecule
A couple previous molecules of the day were in the news today: polylactide and lead chromate....
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April 16, 2008
Category: Food
Phytic acid is an inositol derivative:...
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April 15, 2008
Category: Food
Inositol is a sugar:...
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April 10, 2008
Category: Stinky
As you go down the group, the smells only get worse. You don't smell oxygen (you're soaking in it), sulfur compounds tend to be pretty stinky, selenium compounds are pretty rank, and purportedly, tellurium compounds are the worst....
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April 9, 2008
Category: Stinky
As far as I know, selenocysteine is the only reason you need selenium in your diet (which you almost certainly get enough of; the requirement is vanishingly small,...
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April 3, 2008
Category: Drugs
As Uncle Al mentioned, many antioxidants are ill-tolerated by the liver. However, it loves one antioxidant: silibinin....
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April 2, 2008
Category: Explosives
Benzoyl peroxide is funny. As a commenter mentioned yesterday, it's used in skin care....
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