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Synthetic Stones Capture Carbon

13 December 2011 – 11:25 |

While scrubbers in smokestacks at coal plants can pull out toxic gases like sulfur dioxide, scientists haven’t yet developed a cost-effective technology to remove carbon dioxide from industrial exhaust. Now European researchers have tinkered with …

Greening Mortar With Olive Waste

13 July 2011 – 12:55 |

My latest Concentrate for Chemical & Engineering News [html] [pdf]:
The cement industry is one of the world’s largest producers of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The reason is that cement’s calcium carbonate releases the greenhouse …

Sewer Sampling Reveals Patterns Of Drug Use

16 June 2011 – 22:14 |

While high school graduates in Oslo, Norway, partied hard for two weeks last spring during the so-called Russ graduation festivities, levels of the drug ecstasy spiked about 10-fold in the city’s sewer …

Fatty Acids In Red Wine Make It Taste Fruity

9 June 2011 – 10:11 |

The quality of a wine is still in the palate of the beholder, but tasters agree that fruitiness is an important contributor. Spanish researchers now report that chemicals responsible for a wine’s foul, …