Tag Archives: pollutant

Chemical Sensitivity

Posted by spinneret on January 11, 2008 1 comment

This week’s Spinneret post actually points you to my latest Alchemist column on ChemWeb.com but also goes into a little more detail on one of the items reported there regarding pesticide contamination. First off, Environmental research gets a boost from …

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Cool cats make heavy metal fallout

Posted by spinneret on March 29, 2007 1 comment

The rapid adoption by the car industry of catalytic converters for petrol engines to reduce NOx and other pollutants has significantly improved the quality of air in busy towns and cities. However, Italian scientists says this improvement has comes at …

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Fuel cells

Posted by David Bradley on March 1, 2005 No comments

US scientists have demonstrated a significant boost to fuel cells that could also cut costs. By coating the cathode with a thin layer of platinum instead of using solid metal, efficiency is raised by ten percent and the use of …

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