Corn oil can remove heavy metals from water
Fatty acids in vegetable oil combine with metals
News - Process
US to destroy 2,600 t of chemical stockpile
US$4.5bn project to dismantle 780,000 shells
Simple extraction of gold from e-waste
Non-toxic amide could lead to cheap solution
Carbon molecular sieves separate xylenes
Could save 20 power stations’ worth of energy
Scientists sequester CO2, create electricity
Power cell also creates valuable by-product
Chemical engineers synthesise LGA
LGA among the 30 most valuable chemicals
Making nail polish while producing hydrogen
Efficient process saves high-energy purification
N-doped biochar from chicken poo captures CO2
Biochar is cheap, selective and reusable
Adding CO2 improves biofuel production
Method controls ionic liquid toxicity, lowers costs
Clariant makes clean-burning gas from coal
VESTA technology pilot plant proven
Replacing oil with wood in chemical making
Potential for renewable source of drugs and plastics
Starbons offers new method of carbon capture
New approach is greener as it is made from waste
Yeast surfactant cleans up heavy metals
Natural product is environmentally compatible
New way to turn waste polyethylene into fuel
Uses mild reaction conditions and cheap solvents
Turning captured carbon into nanotubes
1 t of gas would make US$225,000 worth of nanotubes
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