What is supercritical fluid chromatography?
The discovery of supercritical fluids led to novel analytical applications in the fields of chromatography and extraction known as supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and supercritical...
Sodium (Na)
Sodium (Na), chemical element of Group 1 (Ia) of the periodic table (the alkali metal group). Sodium is a very soft, silvery-white metal. Sodium is the most common alkali metal and the sixth...
List of Chemicals used in daily life
There are many chemicals that are most essential in daily life. These chemicals are used either in combined form or as some reagents. More than 1000 of...
The Most Important Chemical Compounds
We are living in a world filled with chemical compounds, some of them being the most important things we use on a regular basis. Here...
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac born on 6 December 1778 at Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat in France as the eldest of five children. He formulated two gas laws, analyzed the...
July 21st – American chemist Rudolph Arthur Marcus was born on this day in 1923
He developed electron transfer theory, which describes the thermodynamics and kinetics of how electrons are transferred between chemicals during a reaction. The theory helps to...
July 20th – James Woodhouse was elected professor of “Chemistry” at the University of Pennsylvania on this day in 1795
The American Chemist founded the Chemical Society of Philadelphia and authored numerous works on chemistry, including the first book of directed chemical experiments.. He also...
July 19th – French chemist and pharmacist Pierre-Joseph Pelletier died on this day in 1842
He was one of the pioneers of the study of plant alkaloid chemistry. Alkaloids are organic compounds that induce various effects in medicine, including painkillers...
