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The Contact Process: How Industry Makes Sulfuric Acid

The Contact Process: How Industry Makes Sulfuric Acid

Sulfuric acid (H₂SO₄) is, by tonnage, the single most manufactured chemical on the planet, used to make everything from fertilizers to detergents to

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Pioneers of Chemistry: How Marie Curie Changed the Study of Radioactivity

Pioneers of Chemistry: How Marie Curie Changed the Study of Radioactivity

At the end of the 19th century, radioactivity wasn't even a named phenomenon; it was a strange, poorly unders

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The History of Chemistry: From Alchemy to the Modern Lab

The History of Chemistry: From Alchemy to the Modern Lab

For most of human history, the pursuit of chemistry wasn't called chemistry at all, it was alchemy, a centuries-long tradition often remembered t

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Surface Chemistry and Adsorption Explained

Surface Chemistry and Adsorption Explained

Water poured into a sponge disappears throughout the sponge's entire volume, soaked up and distributed evenly inside it. Odor molecules trapped by an

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Colloids and Suspensions: Mixtures That Don't Quite Dissolve

Colloids and Suspensions: Mixtures That Don't Quite Dissolve

Milk looks like a single uniform liquid, but it isn't a true solution the way salt water is. It's actuall

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Allotropes of Carbon: Diamond, Graphite, Graphene, and Fullerenes

Allotropes of Carbon: Diamond, Graphite, Graphene, and Fullerenes

Diamond and the graphite inside a pencil are made of exactly the same atoms, pure carbon, with nothing else added. Yet one is the hardest naturally o

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