How does one write a book entitled Redox Biochemistry and keep it at 300 pages? The difficulty stems from the fact that redox, an abbreviation for oxidation and reduction, is a term that commonly ...

I was very concerned by the article “Cloudy Outlook for Sunscreen Market” in the Nov. 28, 2022, issue of C&EN (page 13). The danger of skin cancer and the benefits of sunscreens in preventing skin ...

Researchers from The University of Osaka created a reagent for important building-block molecules with an abundant main-group element, gallium. These early findings show that an organic gallium ...

The metal atoms are losing electrons to form an ion. They are being oxidised. \(Mg(s) \to Mg_{}^{2 + }(aq) + 2e_{}^ - \) This is known as an ion-electron equation. Reduction is the opposite of ...

Batteries have been around for a long time and new ones are constantly being developed in academia or industry. This article takes a look at redox flow batteries and the applications they are commonly ...