August 1st
Tadeus Reichstein died on this day in 1996. Swiss chemist who, with Philip S. Hench and Edward C. Kendall, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for...
Why does water expand when it freezes?
Usually, when things freeze - in other words turn from a liquid into a solid - they shrink or get smaller. This is because, normally,...
Scientists Discover a New Approach for Changing CO2 into CO
Using a zinc-porphyrin electrocatalyst, chemists from Yale University and Oregon State University have discovered the framework for a new method of electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction....
July 31th
Friedrich Wöhler was born on this day in 1800. German chemist who co-discovered vanadium. Having studied first medicine, then mineralogy, it was chemistry that became...
July 30th
Jean Antoine Claude Chaptal died on this day in 1832. French chemist who authored the first book on industrial chemistry. He also coined the name...
Gasoline production
The production of gasoline begins with desalting the viscous crude oil. Salts and metals in the crude oil promote corrosion and poison processing catalysts. Thus,...
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...