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1999 Articles by date | Articles by topic

12/27/99 - Conjugated Linoleic Acid
Beef fat components that promise health.

12/20/99 - Dark Matter
Is most of the universe familiar or unfamiliar?

12/13/99 - Eumelanin and Pheomelanin
Black and red pigments in hair and skin.

12/06/99 - Radon's Progeny
It's radon's daughters that cause problems.

11/29/99 - Atomic Clocks
Off by less than a second in a million years.

11/22/99 - Terminator Technology
Biotechnology's version of copy protection.

11/15/99 - Erucic Acid and Erucamide
In Lorenzo's Oil and plastic bread wrappers.

11/08/99 - Capping the Washington Monument
In 1884, pure aluminum was a novelty.

11/01/99 - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999
Femtosecond visualizations of reactions.

10/25/99 - Resveratrol: A Stilbene in Red Wine
A remedy for cardiac disease and cancer?

10/18/99 - Polar Bear Hair Is Not a Fiber Optic
Proteins absorb light, stopping transmission.

10/11/99 - Gases from Volcanoes
Exhalations of subterranean origin.

10/04/99 - Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction
Laboratory demonstration that oscillates.

09/27/99 - Cellulase Treatment of Textiles
Nowadays, enzymes "stonewash" jeans.

09/20/99 - Thujone
The destructive demon in absinthe?

09/13/99 - Cadaverine and Putrescine
Odoriferous aftermath of protein decay.

09/06/99 - Stainless Steel Passivation
Generating a thin barrier against corrosion.

08/30/99 - Nepetalactone
Catnip's active ingredient.

08/23/99 - Using Viruses as Test Tubes
Perform reactions inside an empty virus.

08/16/99 - Swainsonine
Locoweed toxin affects lysosomes and Golgi.

08/09/99 - Hypergolic Propellants
These rocket fuels ignite on contact.

08/02/99 - E-biomed
Portal to free online research papers.

07/26/99 - Abbreviations from the Past
Some elements invoke their original names.

07/19/99 - Pure Fusion Reactions
New weapons from hydrogen isotope fusion?

07/12/99 - Elements 116 and 118
Two new superheavy elements discovered.

07/05/99 - Denatonium Benzoate
Bitter additive prevents poisonings.

06/28/99 - Ethylene Glycol Poisoning
Enzymology of antifreeze ingestion.

06/21/99 - Coprine
Alcohol sensitivity from mushroom molecule.

06/14/99 - Tallying a Mercury Spill
This toxic metal does, and will, evaporate.

06/07/99 - Atmosphere of Mars
Thin, cold, dry, and dusty.

05/31/99 - Making Permanent Waves
Hair curling and straightening reactions.

05/24/99 - Chlorogenic Acid
Naturally occurring antioxidant in coffee.

05/17/99 - Watered Down Hairspray
New pollution laws impact old formulations.

05/10/99 - Defensive Secretion of Skunks
Nature's bevy of baneful bouquets.

05/03/99 - Defining the Meter, the Second, etc.
Ongoing changes in units of measurement.

04/26/99 - Microwave Ovens Churn Water
Moving water molecules yield hot suppers.

04/19/99 - Oxygenated Gasoline
How it works, and what's in it.

04/12/99 - Exposing Nuclear Test Ban Violators
Analyzing large volumes of atmosphere.

04/05/99 - Trichothecenes
Warfare agents: yellow rain, vomitoxin.

03/29/99 - Mad Hatters and Garimpeiros
Exposure to mercury, then and now.

03/22/99 - Flue Gas Desulfurization
Generating building material, not acid rain.

03/15/99 - Genistein and Daidzein
Breast and prostate cancer drugs from soy.

03/08/99 - Rotaxanes
Moveable ring surrounds molecular thread.

03/01/99 - Lab on a Chip
Miniaturization reaches benchtop chemistry.

02/22/99 - A First Look at Element 114
Preliminary data hint at heavy atom.

02/15/99 - Urushiols
Root cause of poison ivy and oak dermatitis.

02/08/99 - HMX and RDX
A-bomb and plastic explosive ingredients.

02/01/99 - Semiochemistry
Molecular signaling of friends and foes.

01/25/99 - Cubane
The world's only cubic hydrocarbon.

01/18/99 - Reptation
Slithering motion of polymers such as DNA.

01/11/99 - Plicatic Acid
Asthma-inducing irritant in cedar wood.

01/04/99 - Snowflake Crystals
Where meteorology meets chemistry.

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