News tagged with carboxylic acids

Watching particles' jekyll-to-hyde transformation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether a common atmospheric particle stays in a stable form or twists into something else depends on the amount of water it encounters in the atmosphere, according to scientists at the University ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dangerous chemicals in food wrappers likely migrating to humans: study

University of Toronto scientists have found that chemicals used to line junk food wrappers and microwave popcorn bags are migrating into food and being ingested by people where they are contributing to chemical contamination ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New kind of fuel cell delivers energy and fine chemicals with no waste from renewable raw materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- The concept of converting renewable raw materials so cleverly that the same process simultaneously produces both energy and industrially desirable chemicals has been high on the wish-list ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Space rock yields answers about origins of life on Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Formic acid, a compound implicated in the origins of life, has been found at record levels on a meteorite that fell onto a frozen Canadian lake in 2000.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Does prebiotic material exist in space?

Spanish and French astrophysicists have identified a band in the infrared range that serves to track the presence of organic material rich in oxygen and nitrogen in the interstellar dust grains. Should any ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0