For more than two centuries, fossil fuels have dominated global energy and chemical production, accounting for over 80% of ...

Scientists have been naming ideas, theorems, discoveries, and so on after other scientists for a very long time (Newton’s laws of motion, anyone?). Chemists are no different. They’ve been naming ...

The reaction is called a polymerisation reaction: close polymerisation To produce a long chain polymer from many small molecules (monomers). ethene is the monomer ...

The reactivity series ranks metals by how readily they react. More reactive metals displace less reactive metals from their compounds and react with water. Redox, rusting and iron - (CCEA) Oxidation ...

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said.