BOSTON — Environmentalists and fishermen are pushing back against a plan from a group of scientists who want to dump more than 60,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide, more commonly known as lye, into the ...
About 7,500 to 8,000 homes in Thunday Bay are thought to still have older lead pipes connecting them to the city's water mains. That can result in higher concentrations of lead than allowed in tap ...
Alone, it's explosive. Combined with chlorine, it's table salt. When mixed with water, sodium reacts spectacularly. The combination produces sodium hydroxide, hydrogen gas and heat (the technical term ...
In a remarkable shift from conventional knowledge, a recent study reveals groundbreaking insights into the behavior of water molecules.
In fall 2012, an employee conducting a routine inspection at Talvivaara Mining Company’s nickel mine in a forested part of central Finland discovered that the site’s 60 hectare wastewater pond had ...
An acid and alkali will neutralise each other and produce a salt and water. This is called a neutralisation reaction. The name of the salt produced can be worked out from the names of the acid and the ...
Hydrogen fuel cells, which power some electric cars, pack far more energy per weight than lithium-ion batteries. The devices also show promise for decarbonizing aviation, shipping, and trucking. But ...
There’s no debating that metallic sodium is exciting stuff, but getting your hands on some can be problematic, what with the need to ship it in a mineral oil bath to keep it from exploding. So why not ...
An acid and alkali will neutralise each other and produce a salt and water. This is called a neutralisation reaction. The name of the salt produced can be worked out from the names of the acid and the ...
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