The USA PotatoLargely Unregulated Petrochemical Barge Industry Is Taking Over a Texas River
Residents who live on the San Jacinto River fear chemical releases and explosions from the vessels.
Keiran RowellHow benzene changed chemistry forever - with Judy Wu
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0kYMUFzylOs&si=Zlk_kypC6nlARoSP
A nice lecture on the discovery of #benzene to a wide audience at the #RoyalInstitution
#chemistry #dyes #historyofscience #scicomm #purple #petrol #plastics #crystallography
How benzene changed chemistry forever - with Judy Wu
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BellingenNSWIn the wake of wildfires, toxic smoke is a lasting health concern >>
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2527308122
#bushfires #FossilFuels #fires #suburbia #UrbanWildfires #air #pollution #toxins #smoke #plastics #VOCs #AirPollution #ClimateChange #benzene #acetone #health #harm #NSWLogging #PublicHealth
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2527308122
#bushfires #FossilFuels #fires #suburbia #UrbanWildfires #air #pollution #toxins #smoke #plastics #VOCs #AirPollution #ClimateChange #benzene #acetone #health #harm #NSWLogging #PublicHealth
New post! On the #chemistry of #purple, my favourite colour 💜
https://keiran-rowell.github.io/dyes/2025-11-05-aniline-and-the-german-chemical-industry/
This tale winds its way past sea snails and togas 🏛️, coal tar and dream snakes 🐍, industrial conglomerates and chemical theory ⌬ ⟷ ⏣, to flow back in recirculation to fundamental light-sensitive cells themselves 👁️💡🦠
Spend time with this hue right at the edge of our perception 🎨
#benzene #Kekulé #dyes #BASF #organic #porphyrin #GravitysRainbow #Pynchon #Perkin #rhodopsin #HistoryofScience #orbitals #art
From Muck to Mauve: the creation of modern dyes from coal tar
Content notice: this post discusses the early dye companies of industrialised pre-WWI Germany that were at one point put to horrific wartime use. World War II is alluded to in a literary work that was famously denied a Pulitzer prize in part because of its confronting content.
IMDEA Nanociencia200 years ago, Michael Faraday isolated an “oily residue”, now known as #benzene, one of chemistry’s most iconic molecules.
Celebrate 200 years of benzene with @ChemistryWorld exploring its discovery and impact from benzene to graphene.
🎙️ Judy Wu & Nazario Martín.
🔗 https://www.chemistryworld.com/webinars/200-years-of-benzene-the-peculiar-molecule-that-defied-classification/4022229.article
Celebrate 200 years of benzene with @ChemistryWorld exploring its discovery and impact from benzene to graphene.
🎙️ Judy Wu & Nazario Martín.
🔗 https://www.chemistryworld.com/webinars/200-years-of-benzene-the-peculiar-molecule-that-defied-classification/4022229.article
Kevin RussellIf you want, search for: contaminated water system, cancer, and forest fire.
Because physics, closed city and town water systems are deeply infused with forest fire chemicals, and they are carcinogenic. Causing cancer.
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Trump’s EPA Delayed Pollution Safeguards Ahead of Deadly US Steel Explosion
Residents of steel communities say fence-line monitoring for dangerous air pollution must be mandatory.