Scientists have developed a new material capable of capturing the harmful chemical benzene from the polluted air, offering a potential solution for tackling a major health and environmental risk. The ...

Ever since the 1930s debate has raged inside chemistry circles concerning the fundamental electronic structure of benzene. It is a debate that in recent years has taken on added urgency, because ...

A series of new stable, porous materials that capture and separate benzene have been developed. Led by scientists at The University of Manchester, a series of new stable, porous materials that capture ...

Our modern society is based to a large degree on the chemicals we discuss in this chapter. Most are made from petroleum. In Chapter 7, we noted that alkanes—saturated hydrocarbons—have relatively few ...

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Since the start, the makers of gasoline have searched for a fuel that reduces knock as much as possible. That's what led to the use of leaded gasoline in the United States until the Clean Air Act was ...