Entries Tagged as 'Chemistry'
Japanese have cultivated a blue rose
Representatives of the Japanese corporation Suntory, engaged in whisky production, have declared that they have managed to cultivate first-ever variety of celestial-blue roses.
It is known, that the first pilot lots of blue flowers are already grown by experts of the company in the USA and Australia, and the first sales of roses will begin […]
Bio-fuel from wood waste products
Experts from Council for Scientific and Industrial Research together with scientists from Monash University have developed new technology which allows to receive bio-fuel from wood waste products.
As an initial material will be used various wood waste products: flinders, corn husk, paper or dry leaves. For the present time most of all these waste products are […]
Categories: Chemistry · Inventions
The new technology can transfer automobiles to hydrogen fuel
Experts from university of Pennsylvania have declared creation of new technology due to which it is possible to switch automobiles into hydrogen fuel.
At their development scientists have used known earlier idea: any organic waste products, for example, the rests of meal are dumped in a small reactor. Further they are processed by special bacteria, then […]
Categories: Chemistry · General · Inventions
Scientists: Biofuel is more harmful then oil and gas
Biofuel and a number of other renewed energy sources which should replace oil and natural gas, cause more significant greenhouse effect, than the last.
Such information was published by London The Times referring to the newest researches of the British scientists.
Group of experts from Edinburgh University have established that emissions from combustion of the biofuel […]
Chemical compounds of sulfur and arsenic are fixed near the crater of Peruvian meteorite
The employee of the Peruvian institute of nuclear energy Renan Ramirez informed that the commission of experts, having studied the crater of meteorite, has found instead of a radiation only compounds of sulfur and arsenic.
Experts mark that absence of radiation in the area of falling of a prospective meteorite excludes the earlier hypothesis about the […]
An engineer has created device which transforms salt water into fuel
Chemists from Pennsylvania State University (USA) have confirmed the information that engineer John Kanzius has managed to create the device which allows to burn salt water, transforming it in fuel, informs Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The invention of engineer Kanzius has already been named the most significant opening in water science for last hundred years.
In the invented […]
Categories: Chemistry · Inventions
Nitric pollution of biosphere leads to growth of woods
Group of the international scientists, having studied carbon balance on several forest areas in the Western Europe, has come to a conclusion that the more nitrogen gets in a wood with precipitations, the higher is pure primary production of the given ecosystem and trees grow better.
As is known, nitrogen compounds which are evolved in an […]
Categories: Chemistry
An alternative to liquid crystals is created
The group of chemists from university of California in Riverside headed by Professor Jadun Yin has managed to create magnetic nanosolution which changes color if exposed to the external magnetic field.
This marvelous substance is a solution of ferric oxide nanoparticles collected in the special way. These particles, which Jadun Yin calls light crystals, have evident […]
Categories: Chemistry
New cars are harmful
Experts from the American organization called the Ecological center studied for two last years more than 200 automobiles models of 2006 and 2007 years and came to a conclusion, that the smell of a new car harms to the health of a person.
Experts conducted the analysis of a pleasant aroma in a new car. The […]
Categories: Chemistry
Spirit vehicles threaten the ecology
Scientists from Stanford University have conducted researches and found out, that replacement of gasoline with spirit can cause negative consequences. Spirit (ethanol) considered to be non-polluting automobile fuel, however, that appeared only a myth.
Within the framework of research scientists used the computer model simulating a situation which can develop in the USA by 2020 when […]
Categories: Chemistry