#benzene — Public Fediverse posts

@ai6yr

Folks also, don't doubt this, forest fire smoke is also inside your water system, top to bottom. Protect yourself.

Physics forces smoke into the water, the opposite of the assumed protection of a closed system.

https://www.preventionweb.net/news/wildfires-are-contaminating-drinking-water-systems-and-its-more-widespread-people-realize

#climate #wildfire #wildfireSmoke #cancer #benzene

How benzene changed chemistry forever - with Judy Wu
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0kYMUFzylOs&si=Zlk_kypC6nlARoSP

A nice lecture on the discovery of #benzene to a wide audience at the #RoyalInstitution

#chemistry #dyes #historyofscience #scicomm #purple #petrol #plastics #crystallography

New post! On the #chemistry of #purple, my favourite colour 💜

https://keiran-rowell.github.io/dyes/2025-11-05-aniline-and-the-german-chemical-industry/

This tale winds its way past sea snails and togas 🏛️, coal tar and dream snakes 🐍, industrial conglomerates and chemical theory ⌬ ⟷ ⏣, to flow back in recirculation to fundamental light-sensitive cells themselves 👁️💡🦠

Spend time with this hue right at the edge of our perception 🎨

#benzene #Kekulé #dyes #BASF #organic #porphyrin #GravitysRainbow #Pynchon #Perkin #rhodopsin #HistoryofScience #orbitals #art

Exxon’s new ‘advanced recycling’ plant raises environmental concerns | ExxonMobil | The Guardian
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#Exxon
#ExxonMobil
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#Pollutants
#HazardousPollutants
#Plastics
#SyntheticFuels
#ChemicalRecycling
#MechanicalRecycling
#VirginPlasticProduction
#Pyrolysis
#HazardousWaste
#Baytown
#Poverty
#Benzene
#Carcinogens
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/10/exxon-advanced-recycling-plastic-environment