Electric vehicles are colliding with a hard reality: lithium is expensive, supply chains are fragile, and safety concerns ...

Many of us gained our first appreciation for chemistry upon witnessing a high school teacher drop a chunk of sodium into a beakerful of water. You may think you know the explanation behind the ...

In organic synthesis, replacing lithium with sodium would be a significant achievement because it is >1000 times more ...

Nanoengineered hard-carbon with nanoporous channels and an ultrathin SEI boosts fast, reversible all-slope sodium storage in ...

High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a common health condition affecting millions of people around the world. Many ...

IDAHO FALLS -- An employee believed to have been burned in a fire caused by a sodium reaction at the Idaho National Laboratory has been released from a hospital, with physicians reporting they found ...

With the world’s reserves of light oil diminishing, oil companies are increasingly turning to heavier varieties – which make up 70% of global oil reserves – to meet rising energy demands. Existing ...

An acid and alkali will neutralise each other and produce a salt and water. This is called a neutralisation reaction. The name of the salt produced can be worked out from the names of the acid and the ...

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 ...

Did you know that a really fast chemical reaction makes riding in a car safer? Most cars have airbags built into the dashboard and steering wheel that can blow up like super-fast balloons during a ...