Life Chemistry

Petroleum

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Petroleum (L. petroleum, from Greek πετρέλαιον, lit. "rock oil") or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid found in rock formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of...

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Swimming Pool Chemistry

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:20:00 +0000

Photo: Gabriel Robledo Swimming pool need to be properly sanitized to ensure hygeine and comfortness of swimmers. Commonly, germs, bacteria & others organic compounds are oxidised by adding...

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Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:19:00 +0000

The discoveries awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry are a shining example of how fundamental research in one area of science can sometimes lead to highly beneficial applications in another. In...

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Preparative GC

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:27:00 +0000

In gas chromatography (GC), the solutions travel through the column in a gas state. The interactions of these gaseous analytes with the walls of the column (coated by different stationary phases)...

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Bisphenol A to Human Health

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:30:00 +0000

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a key industrial chemical used to make polycarbonate plastic, epoxy resins and other products. A safety assessment of BPA concludes that the potential human exposure to BPA from...

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Bisphenol A

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:41:00 +0000

First synthesized in 1905, bisphenol A (CAS No.:80-05-7) became a critical building block for the 20th century, helping shape new industries and making our lives safer, healthier, and...

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Trans- Fat Free Palm Oil

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:01:00 +0000

Palm oil is produced from the fruit of the Elaeis guineensis palm. It has been shown to be stable and versatile even without hydrogenation. Margarines and shortenings made from palm oil do not...

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Malaysia Palm Oil

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:50:00 +0000

Reference: Malaysian Palm Oil Corporate Video. Palm Oil. Retreived on 17 Aug, 2008 from http://palmoilnews.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/middle-east-imports-record-malaysian-palm-oil/ Book...

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Homemade Chemical Bombs

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:14:00 +0000

Homemade Chemical Bombs (HCBs) are easily constructed out of every-day materials and chemicals. Toilet bowl cleaner or drain cleaner and tin foil mixed in a capped soda pop bottle are among the most...

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Chemistry Lectures are a Yawn

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:15:00 +0000

A scientist has come up with proof of something students have known for years -- chemistry lectures are boring. Photo Courtesy: patriciaann! In an article published in thecurrent issue of Chemistry...

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Water as Energy Source

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:23:00 +0000

Photo Courtesy: Stock.xchng Energy is released from a molecule when stronger bond is formed. Water is a very stable chemical compound. It could not react to form another molecule which has stronger...

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Organic Reaction in Water

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:46:00 +0000

Photo Courtesy: kmrphotography Water is the cheapest, safest and most non toxic solvent for organic reaction. If water could also replace organic solvents more often on the industrial scale, it...

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Water is Unique

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:01:00 +0000

Photo courtesy: Tina_Manthorpe Although water is everywhere in our life, water is having some unusual chemical properties that make us love it so much. Normally the solid state of a compound is...

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Importance of Water

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:54:00 +0000

Photo courtesy: Obi-Akpere The human brain is made up of 95% water, blood is 82% and lungs 90%. A mere 2% drop in our body's water supply can trigger signs of dehydration like fuzzy short-term...

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Mature Love

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:49:00 +0000

Phenylethylamine (PEA) in attraction stage of love is natural pain killer. It gives lovers a sence of security, peace and calm. After two or three years, as tolerance builds, the body can not produce...

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Love and Amphetamine

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:22:00 +0000

Attraction is the second stage of love. This is the truly love-struck phase. It give natural "high". It's because the chemical substances (phenylethylamine, dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin)...

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Sex Drive

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:54:00 +0000

Lust is passionate sexual desire driven by the sex hormones testosterone and oestrogen. Testosterone is not confined only to men. It has also been shown to play a major role in the sex drive of...

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Love

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:59:00 +0000

Scientific tend to view sex and love as a mammalian instinct. Dr.Helen Fisher divides love experience into three partly-overlapping stage: lust, attraction, and attachment. Lust is the initial...

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How C-4 explosive is made

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:59:00 +0000

C-4 (composition 4) is one of the popular plastic explosive(explosive chemical mix with plastic binder). It has 2 important advanteges: The explosive material which coated with plastic binder will...

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Why Snow is White?

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:52:00 +0000

Many gases including carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen are soluble in water. For example solubility of oxygen & nitrogen in water at room temperature (25 degree C) are 0.0089 g/litre...

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The Word "Chemistry"

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:53:00 +0000

Chemistry is the science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter which incorporates the concepts of energy and entropy in relation to the spontaneity of chemical...

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Mcgyan Process - Revolutionary Biodiesel

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:30:00 +0000

A team of scientists and engineers have turned a material for purifying and separating chemicals into a six-second process for turning the poorest quality vegetable oil into biodiesel. A...

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The World of Chemistry

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:36:00 +0000

The video showing some general chemistry which presenting in comedy style. For example the bonding between carbon and hydrogen, electrolysis, vigorous reaction of potassium with water and so on....

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Titania

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:22:00 +0000

Titania, TiO2 nanoparticles is a well-known and widely-used semiconductor material because of its photocatalytic property. Titania has three phases: thermodynamically stable rutile, metastable...

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Nanopipette

noreply@blogger.com (Hean Y) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:02:00 +0000

A research team at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) is using what is thought to be the world smallest pipette to study the freezing and melting process of a few zeptoliters of...

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