July 29th
In 1870, America's first asphalt pavement was laid in Newark, N.J. Previously, coal tar was used for many pavements laid in the 1860s. The...
Gasoline Additives
Trace amounts of olefins and diolefins found in gasoline are prone to reaction with oxygen dissolved in the gasoline. This process is referred to as autoxidation and...
July 27th
Bertram Borden Boltwood was born on this day in 1870. He was an American chemist and physicist whose studied the radioactivity of uranium and thorium, and their...
Octane quality in Gasoline
The most important quality parameter for gasoline is the octane quality. Octane number is a measure of the antiknock properties of the fuel. Knocking in...
Chemistry Conference for Young Scientists 2018
ChemCYS' 14th edition will take place from 21 to 23 February 2018 in Blankenberge (Belgium). Scientific Topics Analytical Chemistry ...
July 26th
Paul Walden was born on this day in 1863. Latvian chemist who, while teaching at Riga, discovered the Walden inversion, a reversal of stereochemical configuration that...
What Is Hydronium?
Hydronium is what you get when you put water and hydrogen ions together, forming H3O+. Hydronium is the simplest form of oxonium, which is any ion...
July 25th – Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev
Russian chemist Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev was born on this day in 1874. He developed a method for industrial production of synthetic rubber. In 1910, while researching processes...
