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Copper produces blue sparks. Barium, also used in rat poison and glassmaking, makes green.

NOVA Chemicals Corporation announced today that all regulatory approvals required to complete the acquisition of NOVA Chemicals by International Petroleum Investment Company have been received.

Catalysts assist in chemical reactions without undergoing any alteration of their own.

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" The University of Arizona Foundation has hired Shaun O. Sommerer, PhD, to serve as Vice President for Arizona Health Sciences Development.

This illustrates the progression of AB42 to a toxic dodecamer, or, "twelve-mer" aggregation, . Below, the AB40 oligomer only becomes a nontoxic tetramer aggregation.

Industrial or 'white' biotechnology has already begun to makes inroads into the chemicals sector, but with climate change and 'green' practices high on the agenda, how much of an impact is it likely to have? This was one of the debates taking place at Green Week, the European Commission's annual conference on climate change, held 23-26 June.

Main Category: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Also Included In: Public Health ; Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 30 Jun 2009 - 4:00 PDT Whether it's the summer grass that tickles your feet or the red Bordeaux smacking on your palette, nearly every part of the world around you carries special chemical markers.

Noam Eliaz of the TAU School of Mechanical Engineering has developed an electrochemical process for coating metal implants which vastly improves their functionality, longevity and integration into the body.

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Like astronomers counting stars in the familiar universe of outer space, chemists in Switzerland are reporting the latest results of a survey of chemical space a ' the so-called chemical universe where tomorrow's miracle drugs may reside.

Dow to build and operate pilot-scale, algae-based integrated biorefinery with Algenol Biofuels Jun.

Like a black car on a bright summer day, soot absorbs solar energy. Recent atmospheric models have ranked soot, also called black carbon, second only to carbon dioxide in potential for atmospheric warming.

Whether it's the summer grass that tickles your feet or the red Bordeaux smacking on your palate, nearly every part of the world around you carries special chemical markers.

Australian researchers are set to begin human trials of a tiny nano-cell that acts as a "Trojan horse" against cancer cells, a breakthrough they say may curb the need for debilitating chemotherapy.

A Vanderbilt chemist and a biomedical engineer have teamed up to develop a respiratory virus detector that is sensitive enough to detect an infection at an early stage, takes only a few minutes to return a result and is simple enough to be performed in a pediatrician's office.

The idea behind the free "Biodiesel 101 Workshop" was to show that anyone can make the alternative fuel -- though a chemistry background is a definite advantage.

Expressing a heavy dose of skepticism that crime lab reports are so reliable as to be beyond question, the Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for chemists and other scientists who prepare such reports to be summoned to the witness stand in criminal trials to defend their analyses.

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"Confessions of a Shopaholic" had potential, but unfortunately, it doesn't know what direction to take.