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January 21, 2009

Benzalkonium Chlorides (Supersoap)

Category: Hygeine

So you know by now that negatively-charged soaps and detergents can mess up bacterial cell membranes nicely. The negatively-charged-yet-nonpolar detergents and soaps commingle nicely with similarly negatively-charged-yet-nonpolar lipids that comprise bacterial cell membranes, thereby ruining bacteria's days....

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January 7, 2009

Chloroform (Sort of)

Category: Not Really a Molecule

Uganda's police warned male bar-goers to keep their noses clean after a probe found a gang of robbers had been using women with chloroform smeared on their chests to knock their victims unconscious....

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