Kanazawa - The botanical world can be an exciting place for chemists. Plant species produce a beautiful array of organic molecules with complex structures, often of great practical use. Indeed, this ...

Lightning and volcanos both produce glass, and humans have been making glass from silicon dioxide since prehistory. Industrialization brought us boron-based glasses, polymer glasses and metallic ...

Elemental analysis offers scientists a method of determining the elements present in an organic compound, and in what quantity. Various fields of science rely on this type of analysis for research, ...

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) represent a class of organic chemicals that demonstrate a remarkable tendency to vaporize at room temperature, thus facilitating their rapid evaporation into the ...