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...
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 ...