What did we learn from the Deepwater Horizon disaster?
WEBSep 13, 2020 · Sept. 19 marks 10 years since retired US Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the national incident commander in charge of the Deepwater Horizon response, announced that the spill was over. Although ...
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C&EN’s World Chemical Outlook 2022 - Chemical & Engineering …
WEBJan 12, 2022 · Mark Costa, CEO, Eastman Chemical, speaking of 2021. The forecast assumes 4.2% US economic growth for 2022. The Conference Board, a business think tank, has a more bearish expectation of 3.5% ...
How peracetic acid is changing wastewater treatment
WEBApr 19, 2020 · In November 2018, the 356 million L per day Maynard C. Stiles Wastewater Treatment Facility started using peracetic acid supplied by PeroxyChem—the world’s largest such system. In February of ...
What’s in marshmallows, and how do the ingredients work …
WEBApr 2, 2021 · In marshmallows, the foam is made up of air suspended in the liquid sugar mixture. Gelatin is probably the most important part of a marshmallow, because it serves as the scaffolding that keeps all ...
C&EN’s top 50 US chemical producers for 2021
WEBMay 10, 2021 · Avient2021 chemical sales: $1.5 billion. Avient is a new name for an old company, PolyOne. The company made the change last July, when it closed its purchase of Clariant's masterbatch business for ...
CRISPR genome editing gets 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
WEBOct 9, 2020 · The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has gone to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”. That method, formally known as CRISPR-Cas9 ...
C&EN’s top 50 US chemical producers for 2022
WEBMay 9, 2022 · The top 50 companies combined for $333.6 billion in chemical sales, a 34.9% increase over what the same companies posted in 2020. And the sales figure exactly matches the record for C&EN's ranking ...
What’s in sunscreen, and how does it protect your skin from the …
WEBJul 21, 2021 · The active ingredients in sunscreens protect our skin by either absorbing or reflecting UV light. Currently, 16 sun-filtering ingredients are approved by the FDA. But sunscreen makers in the US ...