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304 articles · updated September 2026
Hydrofluoric acid (HF) is hydrogen fluoride dissolved in water. It is a weak acid (pKa 3.17), yet it is one of the most dangerous acids in industrial use. Because so little of it ionizes, most of the HF stays as...
Read articleChloramine gas is the toxic vapor that forms when bleach (sodium hypochlorite) and ammonia are mixed. Never mix them. The bleach reacts with ammonia to form...
Isopropyl alcohol (propan-2-ol, CAS 67-63-0) does not spoil. Sealed in its original container it is chemically stable for years. The expiration date on a drugstore bottle...
Methanol (CH3OH, CAS 67-56-1) burns with a weak, pale blue flame that is nearly invisible to the naked eye in daylight. Hydrocarbon fuels burn yellow because...
New Orleans gets all of its drinking water from the Mississippi River, which drains 41% of the lower 48 states. The Sewerage and Water Board of...
The Hypo helmet was the first gas mask issued in bulk to British and Canadian troops in the First World War. It was a flannel hood...
Alliance Chemical is a chemical supplier in Taylor, Texas, founded in 1998, that sells to research labs, small shops, plants and corporate procurement on four standing...
Polyester is almost always polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a plastic made by joining two raw materials: purified terephthalic acid (PTA) and monoethylene glycol (MEG), the same ethylene...
The Bell Rocket Belt was a one-man flying pack built by Bell Aerosystems for the U.S. Army, flown untethered for the first time by engineer Harold...
n-Butyl acetate (CAS 123-86-4, CH3COO[CH2]3CH3, molecular weight 116.2) is a medium-evaporating ester solvent used in coatings, inks, adhesives and industrial cleaning. It is also the industry’s...
Freedom 7, the flight that made Alan Shepard the first American in space on May 5, 1961, was launched by a Mercury-Redstone rocket burning ethyl alcohol...
Banana oil is the common name for isoamyl acetate (CAS 123-92-2, 3-methylbutyl acetate, C7H14O2, MW 130.18) - the ester that carries most of the smell of...
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