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Molecules: You'd better learn to live with them.
May 31, 2008
Category: Not Really a Molecule
I've been thinking more about energy sources since oil was at $50/barrel . Since we reached the staggering heights of the last few months, I've been puzzling even more over what people will move to next....
Posted by Molecule of the Day at 11:45 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 29, 2008
Category: Poisons
Gasoline and diesel engines operate using very different philosophies. In a gas engine, a spark ignites a compressed fuel-air mixture; in a diesel, air is compressed and gets very hot, and fuel is injected, resulting in ignition. In the case...
Posted by Molecule of the Day at 8:35 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 27, 2008
Category: Inorganic
I love stuff like this. A lot of people don't believe that water is blue until they see some really clean water. It really is, though, and the reason is simple yet fascinating. It is because water is blue -...
Posted by Molecule of the Day at 9:00 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 23, 2008
Category: Poisons
In the news the last couple days: chloropicrin:...
Posted by Molecule of the Day at 11:02 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 19, 2008
Category: Inorganic
Mica is neat, you might remember it as the really flaky stuff you used during the minerals demo in grade school:...
Posted by Molecule of the Day at 12:09 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 15, 2008
Category: Explosives
Hexamine is a nitrogenous analogue of adamantane....
Posted by Molecule of the Day at 9:00 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 14, 2008
Adamantane is a sort of triple-fused-cyclohexane structure:...
Posted by Molecule of the Day at 7:30 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 9, 2008
Previously I've mentioned triethylammonium acetate, and ammonium carbonate. These are salts formed by mixtures of volatile stuff - triethylamine, acetic acid, ammonia, and carbon dioxide. Awhile ago I made one I hadn't ever made before....
Posted by Molecule of the Day at 9:42 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 7, 2008
Category: Food
Triacetin is the glycerol triester of acetic acid:...
Posted by Molecule of the Day at 10:04 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 5, 2008
Category: Synthesis
Automated solid-phase synthesis of biomolecules defines 20th century biology. I previously covered a protecting group that is ubiquitous in DNA synthesis, but the Nobel was actually awarded for peptide chemistry....
Posted by Molecule of the Day at 10:30 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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