Thank God for Greg’s post “Odeur d’Asperge” over at Carbon Tet! The mystery is solved, and I thought my kidneys were failing and I would have to spend the rest of my life on dialysis.

This …

Scientists from Georgian Institute of Technology created a prototype nanogenerator that can generate electricity inside a human body.

Tiny little devices traveling in our bloodstream while performing complete blood analysis and monitoring our well-being is …

New research examines a class of reactions between neutral free radicals and neutral molecules that, unlike most reactions, happen rapidly at very low temperatures.

Chemical reactions generally accelerate when temperature increase. However, in today’s issue of Science Magazine [1] a research group from France revealed a class of gas-phase reaction between …

Cocaine is presently the most abused substance in Americas; however, the stimulant is gaining new advocates at an alarming rate in western Europe as well.

In 2005, a group of researches from Italy analyzed water samples from the Po River in northern Italy for the presence of cocaine and its …

As I mentioned in the last post from this series, capillary columns of 10–100 μm inner diameter are commonly used in nano-liquid chromatography setups. They are typically made either from fused silica or PEEK materials currently found in your everyday Gas Chromatography or HPLC, respectively.

There …

As our planet is running out of petroleum resources, a new energy source must be found. Hydrogen is regarded as an ideal alternative to fossil fuel because of its abundance in environment, renewability, and zero emission. However, …

Has anyone seen today’s issue of Science? There is a research paper by Shannon Yan and colleagues “Do Vibrational Excitations of CHD3 Preferentially Promote Reactivity Toward the Chlorine Atom?” I had a difficult time following the authors - physical-molecular chemistry is not my strongest field, but nevertheless …

The study shows …

“What is the response factor in chromatography?” is a question on Yahoo Answers.

So far there has been two answers:

1) A wordy and a bit confusing text book reply tailored more towards Gas Chromatography.
Response Factor

The size of a spectral peak is proportional to the amount …

“HPLC for Pharmaceutical Scientists” is a new hardcover book edited by Yuri V. Kazakevich and Rosario LoBrutto with a price tag of $159 at Amazon.

This is an excellent book for both novice and experienced pharmaceutical …

…well, the prescription ones at least. With Chinese manufacturers considering to increase exports of drug ingredients and perhaps even begin shipping finished drug products to the United States, an article “Trusting medicine from China: Close FDA scrutiny of Chinese pharmaceutical ingredients extends only to those for prescription drugs” …