Everyday Items, Complex Chemistry
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Holiday shoppers may worry about whether the toys they buy contain lead, but some scientists are urging consumers to focus on the thousands of chemicals in everyday household items.
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The chemicals go down the drain, but in the environment they remain. Researchers have found that a complex brew of everyday compounds &#151; from products as ubiquitous as shampoo, bug spray and even that morning cup of coffee &#151; lingers in Minnesota waters even after they're showered off or dumped down the sink.
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The use of subatomic materials as microscopic building blocks for thousands of consumer products has turned into a big business so quickly that few are monitoring the so-called nanotechnology's effects on health and the environment.
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Nanoparticulates offer golden opportunities... if you know where to look.
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Tips and resources galore are at your fingertips.
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Turning a purchase requiring specialized knowledge into something for Everyman â everywhere.
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Q: You mentioned several times about chemistry being so important. Whenever you get a group of demanding people together, it is extremely important.
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Blog: Add carbon dioxide, water, heat. Serves cars.
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Focus on the consumer's everyday needs.
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What seem to be ordinary, everyday objects to some people can carry a storehouse of information about the ownerâs ideology.
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By The Boston Globe  Feb. 7--NANOTEcHNOLOGY -- engineering substances down to billionths of a  meter in size -- holds out such promise of providing super-strong materials or  desalinating water inexpensively that no one wants to put a red light in its  way.
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Some chemicals should be re-assessed after new evidence that they accumulate in food chains, scientists say.
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In life, there are certain things that are beyond indispensable. Like brake lights, hot showers, birthday candles and second chances.
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Your car runs on poison, grain alcohol -- and mothballs. Check the ingredients in your tank. By Patrick Di Justo from Wired magazine.
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By Salley Williams Western Mail  The true scale of chemical intrusion into our daily lives has been exposed as research shows the toxins in 'healthy' foods like eggs and milk.
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Description: Two Israelis and an American have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Their work shows how living cells recycle materials necessary for life.
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Forcing a trio of incompatible molecules together yields multi-compartment nano containers.