During the 1940s, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded for work on radioactivity, nuclear fission, fodder preservation, enzymes and alkaloids

Nov 3, 2010 – Simon Davies

LCD displays, flat screen televisions and computer monitors, solar cells and touch screen devices all depend on an element that few people have heard of.

Nov 3, 2010 – Anthony Toole

The highest honor in Chemistry was awarded to three organic chemists who developed reactions to combine organic molecules using palladium catalysts.

Oct 7, 2010 – Simon Davies

To produce iron from its ore, it is mixed with coke and limestone and heated in a blast furnace.

Oct 3, 2010 – Simon Davies

Titrations are the standard method to determine the amount of a substance in an unknown solution.

Oct 3, 2010 – Simon Davies

The alkaline earth metals are the elements found in group two of the periodic table. The properties of these metals allow them to be classed together.

Oct 2, 2010 – Rochelle Joseph

In the lead up to the Second World War, the Nobel Prize was awarded in the areas of X-ray diffraction, vitamins, and sex hormones.

Sep 13, 2010 – Simon Davies

Ammonia, a colorless alkaline gas, occurs naturally in the environment and is an important nutrient for animals, plants and humans alike.

Aug 31, 2010 – Delores Parker

What are acids? What are bases? How do they react together? What causes neutralization?

Aug 30, 2010 – Simon Davies

Solutions play an important part in chemical processes, involving a solvent, a solute, solubility, and crystallization.

Aug 17, 2010 – Simon Davies

In the late 1920s, the Chemistry Prize was awarded for work in the areas of colloids, natural chemicals and fermentation.

Aug 16, 2010 – Simon Davies

Between 1916 and 1923 five Chemistry Nobel Prizes were awarded for work on fertilizers, isotopes, thermochemistry and organic microanalysis.

Aug 11, 2010 – Simon Davies

The first five Nobel Laureates for Chemistry were recognized for their achievements in the areas of physical, organic and inorganic chemistry

Jul 17, 2010 – Simon Davies

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry, chosen by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, is the highest honour any researcher in this field can receive.

Jul 17, 2010 – Simon Davies

Burnet moths not have only adapted to their host's cyanogenic glucosides, they also have the ability to synthesize and sequester hydrogen cyanide.

Jul 15, 2010 – Helga George

Because they are unsaturated, alkenes are more reactive than alkanes, undergoing not only combustion, but many addition reactions as well.

Jun 16, 2010 – Rochelle Joseph

Discover the real zombies of Haiti. What are they? How do voodoo sorcerers create them? What is tetrodotoxin? And who was Clairvius Narcisse?

Jun 16, 2010 – Lizzy Huitson

Bromine and chlorine are the commonest disinfectants (sanitizers) for drinking and recreational waters and each can prevent certain infections and diseases.

Jun 16, 2010 – Donald Reinhardt

The chemistry of pool, spa, and hot tub waters is important for the overall health safety of bathers. Daily pH and chlorine or bromine testing must be done.

Jun 12, 2010 – Donald Reinhardt

Alkanes are a fairly inert set of organic compounds. However, alkanes do undergo a few chemical reactions.

Jun 7, 2010 – Rochelle Joseph