• UPTON, NY-Converting carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and ethane-an underutilized component of natural gas-into things we need would be a great way to put a potent greenhouse gas and an unused reservoir of hydrocarbons to work. (bnl.gov)
  • Methane and ethane are the most abundant hydrocarbons in the atmosphere. (chemistryviews.org)
  • Instead of water, liquid hydrocarbons in the form of methane and ethane are present on the moon's surface, and tholins probably make up its dunes. (scienceblog.com)
  • Cassini has revealed rivers and lakes of methane-ethane, the lakes evaporating to form clouds, the clouds raining hydrocarbons back down onto the surface, flowing through rivers and collecting in lakes. (phys.org)
  • Non‐methane hydrocarbons (NMHCs) play an important role in atmospheric chemistry and the ocean is a source of NMHCs in the atmosphere. (researchgate.net)
  • It is filled with liquid hydrocarbons, such as ethane and methane, and is one of the many seas and lakes that bejewel Titan's north polar region. (centauri-dreams.org)
  • He is first author on a paper describing the characteristics of a particular catalyst that determine its selectivity for converting CO 2 and ethane to either syngas or ethylene. (bnl.gov)
  • The cracker will be commissioned in 2026 and will convert ethane into ethylene. (ineos.com)
  • Ineos will use US ethane both as fuel and to produce ethylene to feed petrochemical processes. (chemistryworld.com)
  • Here, we investigated the annual variations of NMHCs concentrations and fluxes (i.e., ethane, ethylene, propane, propylene, and isoprene) in the semi‐enclosed shallow waters of Jiaozhou Bay from September 2016 to Au. (researchgate.net)
  • The irregular black shapes in this Cassini radar image of Titan's northern polar region are believed to be liquid methane-ethane lakes. (phys.org)
  • What Cassini actually found on Titan, from 2004 onwards, was a methane-ethane cycle that very much echoes the kind of hydrologic cycle we see on the Earth," says Jonathan Lunine, currently at the University of Rome Tor Vergata while on leave from the University of Arizona. (phys.org)
  • INEOS is investing €4 billion building the most sustainable ethane cracker in Europe, with the largest investment in European chemistry in 25 years. (ineos.com)
  • Project ONE is a game-changing investment by INEOS to construct an ethane cracker in the Antwerp petrochemical hub. (ineos.com)
  • The firm began shipping US ethane to its cracker in Rafnes, Norway, in March. (chemistryworld.com)
  • Ethane is in short supply in Europe - Ineos says the Grangemouth cracker has been running at 40% capacity for the last three years. (chemistryworld.com)
  • Fossil fuel giants ExxonMobil and Shell, as well as plastic makers like SABIC and Formosa Plastics, are building and expanding at least five ethane cracker plants in Appalachia and along the Gulf of Mexico. (huffpost.com)
  • One overall research goal is to extend this chemistry towards producing 2-4-carbon fuels (liquefied petroleum gas: ethane, propane or butane) that can be easily liquefied at room temperature. (aalto.fi)
  • When Ineos began this project, high oil prices gave US ethane a large advantage over crackers running on naphtha from oil. (chemistryworld.com)
  • Ineos says that US ethane is still cheaper than European gas , and increased supply means it can make full use of its facilities at Grangemouth and re-open mothballed manufacturing units. (chemistryworld.com)
  • The term "tholins"was coined by Carl Sagan in 1979 to describe the complex organic molecules at the heart of prebiotic chemistry. (scienceblog.com)
  • Methane and ethane are the simplest hydrocarbon molecules. (phys.org)
  • But instead of water, Titan's lakes, fed by hydrocarbon rains, are filled with liquid methane and ethane - organic molecules that could be building blocks for life. (space.com)
  • This schematic shows two possible reaction pathways for carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) with ethane (C 2 H 6 ), where carbon is black, oxygen is red, hydrogen is white. (bnl.gov)
  • We are carbon-based life, and understanding how far along the chain of complexity towards life that chemistry can go in an environment like Titan will be important in understanding the origins of life throughout the universe," added Lorenz. (scienceblog.com)
  • The key pollution markers such as carbon monoxide, methane, and ethane, which can be used to identify different sources of pollution, are measured by the group headed by Professor Peter Hoor from JGU. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Chemistry Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for scientists, academics, teachers, and students in the field of chemistry. (stackexchange.com)
  • Next month, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make its 126th and final pass around Saturn's large moon Titan, leaving scientists with a rich picture of a geologically active world with liquid hydrocarbon lakes, complex atmospheric chemistry, and likely even a salty ocean buried beneath its icy crust. (space.com)
  • Bill's research interests are in synthetic inorganic chemistry and include the design and coordination of neutral bi- and multi-dentate ligands containing heavy group 15 and 16 donor atoms (P, As, Sb, Bi, Se and Te), transition metal coordination chemistry, especially in high oxidation states, and metal halide and oxo-halide chemistry. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • Return to Start page for Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosol Names PLEASE DO NOT USE THE NAVIGATION BAR ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE! (esipfed.org)
  • The proposed standard_names listed below are based on the ideas provided at Construction of Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosol Terms and Future Standard_Names . (esipfed.org)
  • They affect both atmospheric chemistry and climate. (chemistryviews.org)
  • By focusing on the exclusively manmade ethane levels, they were able to better identify the associated manmade changes in atmospheric methane levels at the end of the 20th century. (chemistryviews.org)
  • Located in Pfahler Hall 301, the Advanced Chemistry Laboratory supports the teaching of the laboratories for Advanced General Chemistry, Instrumental Analysis, and Inorganic Chemistry courses. (ursinus.edu)
  • This laboratory equipped with six hoods was designed to support our upper-level laboratory courses as well as laboratories for advanced general chemistry and non-major chemistry laboratory courses (forensic and environmental chemistry). (ursinus.edu)
  • The W.S. Pettit General Chemistry laboratory, named in honor of William Schuyler Pettit, former president and chemistry faculty, is located on the third floor of Pfahler Hall, room 314. (ursinus.edu)
  • The lab is dedicated to the teaching of general chemistry. (ursinus.edu)
  • The departmental stockroom and a balance room are situated within the general chemistry lab. (ursinus.edu)
  • Titan is the only solar system body other than Earth known to have large quantities of liquid - in this case methane and ethane - on its surface. (sciencenews.org)
  • So one has to wonder: has hydrocarbon chemistry on Titan crossed the threshold from inanimate matter to some form of life? (phys.org)
  • In a recent paper in the journal Astrobiology, Robert Shapiro, a professor of chemistry at New York University, and Dirk Shulze-Makuch of Washington State University rated Titan a higher-priority target for investigation than even Mars. (phys.org)
  • Titan offers many examples of really interesting organic chemistry experiments with alternative structures, added Georgia Tech planetary scientist Britney Schmidt. (space.com)
  • Professor William Levason is Professor Emeritus within Chemistry at the University of Southampton. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • He became a Reader in 1994 and was made Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in 1999. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • But the direction of this field did change completely through the original and imaginative work by this years Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry Professor George A. Olah . (nobelprize.org)
  • Most of us can recall from our high school chemistry courses that many so called inorganic compounds, like for example ordinary table salt, NaCl, could be regarded as built up from atoms or groups of atoms that are electrically charged. (nobelprize.org)
  • Class 12 Chemistry Chapter 9 also covers important terms like ligands, central atoms, coordination entities and coordination numbers. (extramarks.com)
  • In the past few years, instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft and images captured by ESA's Huygens probe have revealed an astonishing world with a complete liquid cycle, much like the hydrologic cycle on Earth, but based on methane and ethane rather than on water. (phys.org)
  • He was appointed to a Lecturership in Inorganic Chemistry at Southampton in 1976, being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1987. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • He remained there to study for a Ph.D developing the coordination chemistry of bidentate antimony containing ligands, graduating in 1975. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • The synthesis and X-ray crystal structure of the ethane-linked dimeric tetrathiafulvalene [(EDT-TTF-CH2)(2)], 1,2-bis(ethylenedithiotetrathiafulvalenyl)ethane (1), is reported. (dtu.dk)
  • Zhenhua Xie, a research associate in Brookhaven Lab's Chemistry Division, holds precursor solutions for the synthesis of catalysts. (bnl.gov)
  • Consequently, this branch of Chemistry can address and solve particularly unique problems ranging from catalytic industrial production issues to the synthesis and fabrication of compounds and materials relevant to nanotechnology. (uga.edu)
  • More recently main group (p-block) coordination chemistry and the applications of main group complexes as precursors for the chemical vapour deposition of electronic materials (semi-conductors etc.) has become a major theme. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • The coordination chemistry of metal and non-metal fluorides is also being developed, both from the point of view of fundamental chemistry, and also involving the design of new agents for 18-F incorporation into radiopharmaceuticals. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • Coordination Chemistry Reviews , 260 , 65-115. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • The Important Questions for Class 12 Chemistry Chapter 9 Coordination Compounds presented here assist students in learning about "coordination compounds" and comprehending the concepts associated with them. (extramarks.com)
  • Murat Aydin and colleagues, University of California, Irvine, USA, investigated the levels of methane and ethane in air trapped close to the surface in the polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. (chemistryviews.org)
  • The multi-billion euro investment is the largest in European chemistry in more than 20 years and will set new standards by employing the best available technology. (ineos.com)
  • Our Chemistry Department offices and laboratories are located on the second and third floors of Pfahler Hall of Science. (ursinus.edu)
  • But under reaction conditions, when you expose the catalyst to CO 2 and ethane, those metals start to move. (bnl.gov)
  • This coincides with a change in energy use as methane and ethane started being collected and consumed as natural gas, with their subsequent conversion to CO 2 . (chemistryviews.org)
  • The facilities will turn ethane, a byproduct of natural gas fracking, into polyethylene pellets, which can be made into a variety of products, including milk jugs, shampoo bottles, food packaging and the air pillows that protect your Amazon orders. (huffpost.com)
  • Chemistry is frequently regarded as a difficult subject, and students frequently struggle to achieve high marks in this subject due to the numerous equations and formulas. (extramarks.com)
  • But the high proportion of ethane in US shale gas has pushed down prices there, making it economical to ship it across the ocean. (chemistryworld.com)
  • the univalent group, C 2 H 5 -, derived from ethane. (dictionary.com)
  • For both theory and experiment, we looked not just at the catalyst samples as they were originally prepared, but also as they undergo phase transformations during the reaction," said Ping Liu, an expert in DFT calculations in the Catalysis Reactivity and Structure group of Brookhaven's Chemistry Division. (bnl.gov)
  • Aerosol composition will be measured with the novel ERICA instrument jointly developed by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Mainz University. (eurasiareview.com)