In the TV show Breaking Bad, Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher learns he has stage three lung cancer, so expecting to die in the not too distant future he decides to make some money for his family by making and selling methamphetamine.
The cooking of meth involves a chemical reduc...
There is much excitement and speculation about the use of hydrogen as a greener fuel of the future. It is true that hydrogen does not produce greenhouse gases when burned and produces more energy than gasoline, however the challenges of working with hydrogen are significant and often simplifie...
The use of photo-ionisation detector (PID) in recent years has become increasingly common. For the detection of volatile organic compounds such as benzene or toluene no other common sensor type comes close to detecting the gas at the part per million (or even part per billion) level required, ...
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
The green sea Wilfred Owen ...
Most people are aware that carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas, many people indeed have carbon monoxide alarms in their homes, and it is commonplace for industries in which carbon monoxide is present to have personal and fixed gas detection equipment to protect the people working there.
Carbon m...
