Chemicals & Chemistry

Exploring the molecular world: new compounds, industrial chemistry, environmental impacts, material science discoveries, and the chemistry underlying everyday products and processes.

Companies left and right are banning plastic straws because ocean critters are important - with no evidence getting rid of plastic straws is really helping marine critters at all. While I shake my head at that, I am not surprised.
The Atacama Desert is an inhospitable place.
Carvone is terpene (See Essential Oils - Not What The Name
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) just issued a policy statement about common chemicals found in trace amounts in food, all of which have been in use for at least 50 years.
I'm in New York City and a storm just finished. Though the forecast had only shown a slight chance of rain a few hours earlier, suddenly there were flash flood warnings and the Yankees went ahead and postponed their game.
Do you use plastic bags? Do you drink from plastic straws?
Do-gooders in America, typically of the Millennial variety, think of themselves as smarter, more worldly, and far better informed than you. They are woke. You are not.