Emperor Napoleon III offered a prize to anyone who could find "a suitable substance to replace butter for the navy and less prosperous classes."聽The French chemist Hippolyte Mege-Mouries had...
A very good question to tackle because many people do not have a good understanding of calories.聽 First of all, a calorie is not a thing and therefore cannot be full or empty.聽 You cannot put...
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Atoms of arsenic can combine with atoms of other elements to form a variety of compounds. These can be divided into two categories, 鈥渋norganic鈥� and 鈥渙rganic.鈥� In this case, the term 鈥渙rganic鈥� is...
First of all, let鈥檚 point out that this trial dealt with occupational exposure to glyphosate and had nothing to do with trace amounts of the chemical in our food supply. Nevertheless, the...
