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...

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...

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...

Over 200 years ago, the British naval frigate Alarm lost its copper sheeting due to the rapid corrosion of the iron nails used to fasten the copper...

An amino acid is a type of organic acid that contains a carboxyl functional group (-COOH) and an amine functional group (-NH2) as well as a...

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...

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...

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...