Category: 6. Chemistry

A 24-year-old Australian man who ordered uranium and plutonium to his parents’ apartment has been allowed to walk away from court on a two-year good behaviour bond.

After ordering various radioactive samples over the internet in an effort to…

Explosions at two illegal fireworks factories in India have killed 29 people, including 12 children. The incidents highlight the extent of India’s informal firecracker industry, and the lack of enforcement of regulations intended to eliminate…

I remember the first time I stepped into a chemistry lab for which I had to write a formal lab report. As I stood there, surrounded by an array of reagents and equipment, reading through the well-defined instructions for the interesting…

Terbufos and aldicarb, highly toxic pesticides used in South African agriculture, have found their way into the country’s poor townships as rat poisons. This in turn has led to the accidental contamination of stored food and poisoning deaths.

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This study demonstrated that LPS induces both morphological and biochemical changes in canine skin organ cultures, evidenced by increased blood capillary size and elevated levels of specific oxylipins. These findings validate the use of LPS in…

FTIR

FTIR spectroscopy was employed to elucidate the chemical bands generated during the synthesis of BaSO₄@SiO₂ Fig. 3a and BaSO₄@ZIF-8 Fig. 3b within the spectral range of 400–4000 cm⁻¹. As delineated in the extant literature, four…