Viridis Chemical has halted work on an almost-completed plant near Peoria, Illinois, intended to make ethyl acetate, a ...

Diesel doesn't magically come out from underground — it's engineered through a complex refining process that involves many steps and lots of heat.

In chemistry, solvents (generally in liquid form) are used to dissolve, suspend or extract other materials, typically without chemically altering either the solvent or the other materials. Solvents ...

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Currently the typical way that crude oil is processed involves a fractional distillation column, in which heated crude oil is separated into the various hydrocarbon compounds using distinct boiling ...

A lot of diesel vehicle drivers might take certain things about their fuel for granted. We might gripe when its price increases and reminisce about just how cheap it used to be a relatively short time ...

IN his preface Prof. Young says that he wrote this book in the hope that the solution of the difficulties of fractional distillation might be rendered easier. He has written an eminently practical ...

The vessel was excavated in 2010 at the Daxinzhuang Ruins in Jinan City, Shandong province, a key site for studying Shang civilization. In a discovery that could rewrite the history of alcohol ...

If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...

Based on a reconstruction and simulation experiment on the replica of an ancient bronze distillation apparatus, a Chinese research team has recently discovered that the technique of distilled spirit ...