Editor’s note: This is the second of two stories exploring mercury mining in Arizona. Known as quicksilver because it is a silver liquid, mercury or Hg on the periodic table is derived from the Latin ...

There is an urban legend fueled by the movie Beverly Hills Cop that people have around 5 pounds of undigested meat in their stomach by the time they are middle-aged. Not so. But bezoars, which are ...

Halophiles are excellent sources of enzymes that are not only salt stable but also can withstand and carry out reactions efficiently under extreme conditions. The aim of the study was to isolate and ...

In the nervous system, the intracellular chloride concentration ([Cl −] i) determines the strength and polarity of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated neurotransmission. [Cl −] i is determined, in ...

Organomercurial lyase (MerB) catalyzes the difficult cleavage of C-Hg bonds to hydrocarbon and mercuric dithiol products. Model compounds providing two or three thiolate ligands activate ...

Dichloromethane, DCM, Methylene Chloride Dichloromethane (DCM or methylene chloride) is a colorless, volatile liquid with a sweet odor. It is widely used in a variety of commercial applications, ...

Abstract: Mercuric iodide (HgI/sub 2/) polycrystalline films have great potential as direct-conversion X-ray detectors for digital X-ray imaging. We have optimized a sublimation-based film growth ...

† Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, DISTEBA, University of Salento, Via per Arnesano, I-73100 Lecce, Italy ‡ Department of Engineering of Innovation, University of ...