Plastics are made from crude oil and petroleum by-products, so a team of scientists decided to explore if they could turn waste cooking oil into a useful plastic material, and they succeeded. The ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Topeka voters will choose a new mayor and decide on city council representation in November. The odd-numbered districts are on the ballot this year. Topekan Chris Deister is ...

A collaborative academic-industry research team in the U.K. has devised a method to convert the terminal triple bond of an alkyne into a diester with the two ester groups at opposite ends of the ...

Besides plastics, the amount of carcinogenic plasticizers in the environment is increasing at an alarming rate. Plasticizers are chemicals added to plastics and personal care products to enhance ...

L'ester méthylique d'huile végétale (EMHV), appelé aussi Diester en France, est développé de manière progressive depuis les années 1990. C'est un carburant renouvelable qui se substitue au gazole. Il ...

The natural compounds of boron have many applications, primarily as a dietary supplement. The research is based on the discovery that the diester chlorogenoborate complex can be detected and ...

Researchers have developed a new formal description of internal world models, thereby enabling interdisciplinary research. Internal world models help to make predictions about new situations based on ...

Le diester s’obtient en faisant réagir une tonne d'huile semi-raffinée avec 100 kg de méthanol. Cette réaction est appelée estérification : elle permet d’obtenir également 100 kg de glycérine végétale ...

À tout juste 50 ans, et en plein débat sur la fin de vie en France, le Vosgien Dominique Diester a entamé des démarches pour mourir en Belgique. Atteint de multiples maladies, son pronostic vital ...

Abstract: Synthetic ester (SE) insulating oils have been more widely researched owing to their tailorable performance to satisfy the more rigorous oil requirements for power transformers. In this ...