Molecule of the Week – Lawsone
Hamımızın yaxından tanıdığı xına bir sıra mədəniyyətlərdə önəmli yer tutur. Xınanın təxminən 5000 illik keçmişi vardır. Dəri, dırnaq və saçda qırmızımtıl qəhvəyi bir rəng buraxan...
July 18th- British scientist Robert Hooke was born on this day in 1635
The Englishman Robert Hooke was an architect, natural philosopher and brilliant scientist, best known for his law of elasticity (Hooke's law), his book Micrographia, published...
July 17th – English chemist Sir Frederick Abel was born on this day in 1827
One of the most important of his investigations had to do with the manufacture of guncotton, and he developed a process, consisting essentially of reducing...
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie was a French physicist, physical chemist, and Nobel laureate. He was born in Paris on 15 may 1859, son of Eugene Curie and...
July 16th – The first test nuclear bomb was detonated on this day in 1945
The test took place at Alamogordo, New Mexico. The explosion produced the power equivalent to approximately 20,000 tons of tri-nitro-toulene (TNT), and left a crater...
Gas Chromatography – What It Is and How It Works
Gas chromatography (GC) is an analytical technique used to separate and analyze samples that can be vaporized without thermal decomposition. Sometimes gas chromatography is known as gas-liquid partition...
July 15th- American nuclear chemist Albert Ghiorso was born on this day in 1915
He co-discovered 12 elements while working at the University of California, Berkeley: americium (Am), curium (Cm), berkelium (Bk), californium (Cf), einsteinium (Es), fermium (Fm), mendelevium...
Spongy metal energises lithium–oxygen batteries
An ultra-light nickel cathode boosts performance and lifetime of promising battery technology A porous metal electrode so light that it can be balanced on a...
