Category Archives: Chemistry

Guide Tour of Curie Museum, Paris, France

The Musée Curie is a historical museum focusing on radiological research. It is located in the heart of the “Campus Curie” in the Val-de-Grâce district of the 5th arrondissement, at 1, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. Made up of an exhibition space permanent and an archive centre, it…

Guide Tour of Curie Museum, Paris, France

Guide Tour of Pasteur Museum, Paris, France

The Musée Pasteur is a museum dedicated to French scientist Louis Pasteur. It is located within the Institut Pasteur at 25 Rue du Docteur Roux, Paris, France, in the 15th arrondissement. The museum was established in 1935, in honor of Louis Pasteur, and preserves his memory in the apartment where…

Guide Tour of Pasteur Museum, Paris, France

Everything is chemistry, National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

Exhibition showing the presence of chemistry in the world around us. From our own bodies to the different applications of chemistry in everyday life: materials, daily activities, nutrition and health. Without the contributions of chemistry it would have been almost impossible to resolve the multiple needs generated by demographic growth…

Everything is chemistry, National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

Gilding

Gilding is any decorative technique for applying a very thin coating of gold to solid surfaces such as metal (most common), wood, porcelain, or stone. Gilding gives an object a gold appearance at a fraction of the cost of creating a solid gold object. A solid gold piece would often…

Gilding

Ceramic glaze

Ceramic glaze is an impervious layer or coating of a vitreous substance which has been fused to a ceramic body through firing. Glaze can serve to color, decorate or waterproof an item. Glazing renders earthenware vessels suitable for holding liquids, sealing the inherent porosity of unglazed biscuit earthenware. It also…

Ceramic glaze

Anthotype

An anthotype is an image created using photosensitive material from plants. This process was originally invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842. An emulsion is made from crushed flower petals or any other light-sensitive plant, fruit or vegetable. A coated sheet of paper is then dried. Place some material, for…

Anthotype

Science and Technology, National Museum of Scotland

Scientific and technological inventions changed our lives in communications, transport, industry, engineering, energy and medicine. Explore the history of innovation in Scotland and across the world through interactive games and thought-provoking displays. Explore Family-friendly Explore gallery on Level 1 brings science to life with hands-on games and interactive exhibits. Don’t…

Science and Technology, National Museum of Scotland

Nanorobotics

Nanorobotics is an emerging technology field creating machines or robots whose components are at or near the scale of a nanometre (10−9 meters). More specifically, nanorobotics (as opposed to microrobotics) refers to the nanotechnology engineering discipline of designing and building nanorobots, with devices ranging in size from 0.1–10 micrometres and…

Nanorobotics

Carbon nanotube

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure. These cylindrical carbon molecules have unusual properties, which are valuable for nanotechnology, electronics, optics and other fields of materials science and technology. Owing to the material’s exceptional strength and stiffness, nanotubes have been constructed with length-to-diameter ratio of up…

Carbon nanotube

Shape-memory alloy

A shape-memory alloy (SMA, smart metal, memory metal, memory alloy, muscle wire, smart alloy) is an alloy that “remembers” its original shape and that when deformed returns to its pre-deformed shape when heated. This material is a lightweight, solid-state alternative to conventional actuators such as hydraulic, pneumatic, and motor-based systems.…

Shape-memory alloy

Amorphous metal

An amorphous metal (also known as metallic glass or glassy metal) is a solid metallic material, usually an alloy, with disordered atomic-scale structure. Most metals are crystalline in their solid state, which means they have a highly ordered arrangement of atoms. Amorphous metals are non-crystalline, and have a glass-like structure.…

Amorphous metal

Propane

Propane is a three-carbon alkane with the molecular formula C3H8. It is a gas at standard temperature and pressure, but compressible to a transportable liquid. A by-product of natural gas processing and petroleum refining, it is commonly used as a fuel. Propane is one of a group of liquefied petroleum…

Propane

Alcohol fuel

Alcohols have been used as a fuel. The first four aliphatic alcohols (methanol, ethanol, propanol, and butanol) are of interest as fuels because they can be synthesized chemically or biologically, and they have characteristics which allow them to be used in internal combustion engines. The general chemical formula for alcohol…

Alcohol fuel

Sustainable biofuel

Sustainable biofuel is biofuel produced in a sustainable manner. Biofuels are liquid fuels produced from renewable raw materials , unlike fossil fuels that are a finite, non-renewable raw material. Biodiesel replaces fossil fuels in the transport sector – either as pure biofuels or as so-called “low-blend”. Today, for example, many…

Sustainable biofuel

Thermal depolymerization

Thermal depolymerization (TDP) is a depolymerization process using hydrous pyrolysis for the reduction of complex organic materials (usually waste products of various sorts, often biomass and plastic) into light crude oil. It mimics the natural geological processes thought to be involved in the production of fossil fuels. Under pressure and…

Thermal depolymerization

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