There’s no debating that metallic sodium is exciting stuff, but getting your hands on some can be problematic, what with the need to ship it in a mineral oil bath to keep it from exploding. So why not ...

The Market Size of Sodium Vinyl Sulfonate (SVS) Continues to Grow, Domestic Production Capacity Expands ...

Traffic on Interstate 10 is backed up for miles in Kenner due a chemical spill from an 18-wheeler, traffic officials said at 11:30 a.m. Thursday. Update: I-10 reopens after chemical spill A tanker ...

About 200 gallons of 25% sodium hydroxide spilled during a "routine" supply delivery to the Wellington Nanofiltration Water Purification Unit on Sept. 21, according to a spill mitigation report from ...

THE British Cotton Industry Research Association has recently issued two memoirs (reprinted in the Journal of the Textile, Institute, vol. 20, T. 373, 1929; and vol. 21, T. 225, 1930) in which S. M.

When salt is removed from seawater in desalination plants, the byproduct is – not surprisingly – a lot of highly-concentrated salty brine. Ordinarily, this is just dumped back into the sea, which can ...

A high school friend once related the story about how his father, a chemist for an environmental waste concern, disposed of a problematic quantity of metallic sodium by dumping it into one of the more ...

Most batteries powering today’s electric vehicles are made from subcategories of lithium-ion, with chemistries like nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC), nickel-cobalt-aluminum (NCA), and ...

What if the future of aviation didn’t rely on heavy lithium-ion batteries or complex hydrogen systems, but instead on a fuel as simple and abundant as sodium? At MIT, researchers are turning this bold ...

In fall 2012, an employee conducting a routine inspection at Talvivaara Mining Company’s nickel mine in a forested part of central Finland discovered that the site’s 60 hectare wastewater pond had ...

Hydrogen fuel cells, which power some electric cars, pack far more energy per weight than lithium-ion batteries. The devices also show promise for decarbonizing aviation, shipping, and trucking. But ...