"I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet."聽 With these words Victor Frankenstein began his account of the...
Chemistry can be roughly divided into two branches, analysis and synthesis. Chemists either try to identify existing substances or make new ones. By the early 19th century, a number of substances...
In 1933 Calgon Incorporated of Pittsburgh introduced its flagship product, appropriately named 鈥淐algon.鈥� The name was derived from the phrase 鈥渃alcium gone,鈥� which was an accurate description of...
