A new version of the periodic table of elements has predicted hundreds of highly charged ions that could be used to create the next generation of optical atomic clocks. The periodic table ...

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But they ended up discovering something else entirely: the largest organic compounds ever documented on Mars. The compounds date to 3.7 billion years ago—around the same time that life first ...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) enter the air from gasoline, pesticides, tobacco smoke, and thousands of other products and processes. They can increase the risk of airway problems and other ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has detected salts and organic compounds on the surface of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. The detection was made during a June 2021 flyby in which Juno analyzed Ganymede ...

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3-6 The organic chemistry laboratory class described herein explores the optimization of the microwave synthesis of umbelliferone (2), a fluorescent molecule, using a domestic microwave oven, and its ...

VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, are compounds that contain carbon atoms and that, at room temperature, easily evaporate. Too small to see and virtually omnipresent both indoors and out ...