Everyday Items, Complex Chemistry
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Holiday shoppers may worry if 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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Our colleagues over at PC World gathered up a list of products that each of them simply couldn't imagine going through daily life without. Some are relatively obvious, such as Windows 2003,  TiVO and Skype, and others a bit more odd, such as Cyber Systems' RoboForm. Heh?
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Speculative? Sure. But they all have intriguing compounds in development.
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These products don't come without serious risks.
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Chemical reactions come in many varieties with the companies posting quarterly financials in the first week of 2005 -- but is it market science or ancient alchemy at play?
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By JAN SLIVA  STRASBOURG, France - Some dangerous chemicals could be banned from the European market and about 30,000 substances used in everyday products ranging from detergents to toys will have to be registered in a central European Union database under a law approved Wednesday.
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A sleek home-media PC looks creamy delicious; a carry bag becomes a chair storing laptop; and more. By Brian Lam from Wired magazine.
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Â· Third of all food products tested had chemical tracesÂ· Very small percentage of samples posed health risk
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A FATHER has been living apart from his family for more than a year because he complained he was acutely sensitive to everyday chemicals in the house near Fishguard, west Wales.   Guy Wood, 47, claims he has multiple chemical sensitivity.  (c) 2006 Evening Mail; Birmingham (UK).
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A British chemist bases his table on the established atomic weight of each element. He doesn't get everything right, but he's in the ballpark.
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Particles that capture infrared light could allow everyday objects to tap into an under-exploited source of energy.
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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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By Marty, Diane  CONSUMER NEWS  Are You Walking on 120 Chemicals?  People spend 90 percent of their time inside buildings and the majority of those hours in their homes.
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Nanoparticulates offer golden opportunities... if you know where to look.
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By KEVIN MILLER; OF THE NEWS STAFF  Environmental and health groups say the presence of dozens of industrial chemicals in 13 Mainers who volunteered for a study underscores the need for new policies to protect the public from potential toxins found in everyday consumer products.
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Getting nanoparticles to stick together in the right ways could be the key to controlling the self-assembly of structures and materials.
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By Whitesides, George M  Travelogues from Lilliput THE DANCE OF MOLECULES: How Nanotechnology Is Changing Our Lives. Ted Sargent, xx + 234 pp. Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006. $25.  NANO-HYPE: The Truth Behind the Nanotechnology Buzz. David Berube. Foreword by Mihail C. Roco. 521 pp.