In this video we will be making butyric acid by oxidizing 1-butanol (n-butanol) using KMno4. Chemicals: 6.2mL 1-butanol 14g ...

Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is notorious for killing and preserving dead animals. If you died in its waters, its high levels of sodium carbonate would mummify your body. But instead of taking a ...

The Philippines is poised to be the second fastest-growing economy in Southeast Asia this year and in 2025—just behind Vietnam—based on the latest outlook of the Asean+3 Macroeconomic Research ...

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. A new factory shows how sodium ion will gain an increasing share of the U.S. energy storage market as developers seek to reduce ...

Traditionally, it is commonly used as a liming agent to reduce soil acidity, meaning that calcium carbonate acts as a neutralizing agent for acidic soils by increasing the soil’s pH level, making it ...

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have achieved an important advancement in making sodium-ion batteries more effective. They have developed a new way to ...

THE Philippines joined four other countries on Saturday in the largest joint patrol to date as China conducted its own naval and air exercises near Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough Shoal) on the same day ...

To form the final product, the team heated up a mixture of a precursor material and sodium hydroxide to as high as 600°C, maintained it at that temperature for a select period, then cooled it to ...

MANILA, Philippines — Some Filipino fishermen were able to come as close to a few hundred meters away from Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea, but some of them were forced back.

Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. cited Thursday the pressing challenges faced by the country's agriculture sector to attain food security. In his remarks at the European Chamber of ...