Dichloromethane, DCM, Methylene Chloride Dichloromethane (DCM or methylene chloride) is a colorless, volatile liquid with a sweet odor. It is widely used in a variety of commercial applications, ...

Silymarin, extracted from the seeds of Silybum marianum (milk thistle), has been utilised in traditional medicine for many years and is recognised for its neuroprotective and hepatoprotective ...

Solvents play a crucial role in chemistry, influencing reaction rates, mechanisms, and the solubility of various compounds. Classifying solvents based on their ability to donate or accept ...

The solvent dichloromethane, or DCM, is commonly used to strip paint and cut grease. It's also what generations of chemistry students have used to dissolve pain reliever tablets in a lab exercise ...

Scientists created amphiphilic MXene that disperses in water and organic solvents, enabling coatings, EMI shielding, and battery applications at scale. (Nanowerk News) Dr. Seon Joon Kim and his team ...

In this work, we benchmark the accuracy of the density-functional tight-binding (DFTB) method, namely the long-range corrected second-order (LC-DFTB2) and third-order (DFTB3) models, for predicting ...

Daily solvent use is pretty much a given in a synthetic chemistry lab. In academic laboratories, it’s such an ingrained part of research that chemists might forget that solvents can be serious safety ...

Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of São Paulo, Rua São Nicolau 210 - Centro, Diadema, SP ZIP code 09913-030, Brazil Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of São ...

"Trike" and "perc" helped purify our way to space, cleansing rocket parts to maximize performance and safety. Now the federal government plans to ban the two common solvents: both used by NASA, and ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency on Monday banned the use of two ubiquitous cancer-causing solvents that activists have been targeting for decades. The ban involves trichloroethylene, or TCE, a ...