Here’s element 10 in our International Year of the Periodic Table element series: Neon. Best known for its use in neon lights, neon also finds use as a refrigerant. Its unreactive nature means it has no known stable compounds with other elements. Neon lends its name to neon lights – though, in truth, only those …
Month: March 2019
8 March is International Women’s Day. In the past few years, Ci has featured graphics on women in chemistry to mark this occasion; first, this one on women in chemistry history, and last year this one on women in chemistry present. This year, here’s another edition, looking at twelve more underappreciated women from chemistry history. …
Tribology was formalized by the Jost report. The Jost report formally a report on “Lubrication (Tribology) Education and Research” organized and presented to the UK government 9 March 1966 by Dr. Peter H. Jost. This paper coins the term Tribology and quantifies the saving that can happen when using sound tribological concepts. That is by …
Element number 8 in our International Year of the Periodic Table series is oxygen. Oxygen is a paramagnetic gas which is essential for respiration of living things, and also finds use as a rocket fuel. Oxygen is a magnetic gas, though this isn’t something that’s demonstrable in the gaseous state. However, if oxygen is cooled …
