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Chemicals and chemistry touch nearly every aspect of our lives. From the food we eat, the cars we drive, the building where we work, live and play, to myriad health care applications, product packaging and consumer electronics, chemistry helps make all these possible. So it is important that chemicals are used safely. Learn more about chemicals health and safety in the five categories below.

Uncategorized August 18, 2026

From Takeoff to Touchdown: The Chemistry Making Air Travel Safer and More Efficient

From the materials that make modern aircraft lighter and stronger to the technologies helping improve fuel efficiency and passenger comfort, chemistry plays a role in helping millions of people travel safely around the world.

Uncategorized August 24, 2022

The Periodic Table of Elements Explained

The Periodic Table of Elements is an ordered system of all the identified elements. These elements make up everything in our universe.

Uncategorized August 19, 2022

Are There Really Thousands of Untested Chemicals in Our Products?

If you’ve ever read a news article or blog post about chemicals, you may have heard the oft-cited claim that there are 84,000 untested chemicals in everyday products. This is false.

Uncategorized August 19, 2022

Video: Ethylene Oxide – An Essential Chemistry

Ethylene Oxide is a versatile and essential chemical building block. Companies that make and work with Ethylene Oxide are actively investing in research and advanced product stewardship technologies...

Uncategorized August 19, 2022

How Do the Products of Chemistry Help Save Energy?

Nearly every energy-efficient technology or product, and even the packaging that protects and ships products, is dependent on innovations in chemistry – from lithium-ion batteries in laptops, mobile phones and the next generation of electric cars...

Uncategorized August 19, 2022

Why Did the Chemist Cross the Road?

The concept of marketing a product as “chemical free” is so bewildering to chemists – those people who have spent their lives devoted to what most of us left behind after the chemistry lessons of school – that they have engaged in all sorts of jokes at the expense of us non-chemists.

Uncategorized August 18, 2022

Chemical Families: Sometimes Similar, But Far From the Same

A “chemical family” can be defined as a group of elements that have certain similar properties and can form compounds with some similar properties.

Uncategorized August 17, 2022

An Introduction to Plastics

Plastic is a versatile material used to make thousands of products people use every day. Learn about the types of plastic classification, history and unique chemistry that gives plastic its variety of uses and applications.

Uncategorized August 17, 2022

Chemical Ingredients 101: How to Read a Product Label

Ingredient labels for food and other products we use daily often include unfamiliar chemical names.

Uncategorized August 17, 2022

What Makes Polystyrene Different from Styrene? It’s a Matter of Chemistry.

What’s the difference between styrene and polystyrene? Although the names sound familiar, styrene and polystyrene are different and have completely different properties.

Uncategorized August 16, 2022

Spotting Bad Science

It’s important to be able to evaluate the evidence behind a scientific claim.

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