News articles tagged with 'chlorine'
Stanford researchers use river water and salty ocean water to generate electricity
— 30 Mar 2011 16:43 | TechnologyStanford researchers have developed a battery that takes advantage of the difference in salinity between freshwater and seawater to produce electricity…
MIT chemists engineer plants to produce new drugs
— 4 Nov 2010 13:18 | HealthHumans have long taken advantage of the huge variety of medicinal compounds produced by plants. Now MIT chemists have found a new way to expand plants' pharmaceutical repertoire by…
MIT moves toward greener chemistry
— 4 Sep 2010 10:54 | ChemistryPhosphorus, a mineral element found in rocks and bone, is a critical ingredient in fertilisers, pesticides, detergents and other industrial and household chemicals. Once phosphorus…
Missing piece inspires new look at Mars puzzle
— 4 Sep 2010 09:54 | AstronomyExperiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building…
Key compound of ozone destruction detected
— 23 Jul 2010 11:23 | EnvironmentFor the first time, KIT scientists have successfully measured in the ozone layer the chlorine compound ClOOCl which plays an important role in stratospheric ozone depletion. The doubts…
Caltech team finds evidence of water in moon minerals
— 22 Jul 2010 08:59 | AstronomyThat dry, dusty moon overhead? Seems it isn't quite as dry as it's long been thought to be. Although you won't find oceans, lakes, or even a shallow puddle on its surface, a team of…
IBM makes water clean with smarter, more energy-efficient purification
— 19 Mar 2009 16:10 | EnvironmentIBM, Tokyo-based Central Glass and the King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) today unveiled a novel membrane technology that stands to alleviate the growing shortage…
European satellites provide new insight into ozone-depleting species
— 26 Feb 2009 15:20 | EnvironmentUsing data from the satellite-based MIPAS and GOME-2 instruments, scientists have for the first time detected important bromine species in the atmosphere. These new measurements will…
Discovery of ionic elemental crystal against chemical intuition
— 1 Feb 2009 20:26 | ChemistryAn ETH Zurich researcher has developed a computational method for predicting the structure of materials. He used it to solve the structure of a newly synthesised form of pure boron…
2008 ozone hole larger than last year
— 8 Oct 2008 03:15 | EnvironmentThe 2008 ozone hole - a thinning in the ozone layer over Antarctica - is larger both in size and ozone loss than 2007 but is not as large as 2006. Ozone is a protective atmospheric…