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What gives gold nanoparticles their color?

In a previous post, Can gold melt at room temperature? Melting temperature depression!, we talked about how the color of gold

A few weeks ago (before it started snowing!) I went on a walk in the garden across the street from

Do you remember the first time you saw a dead body? I do, and it isn’t a very pleasant memory.

Happy Mole Day! On October 23 we celebrate Avogadro’s Number (6.02 x 1023), an important unit of measurement in chemistry.

Happy National Nanotechnology Day! The National Nanotechnology Initiative chose October 9 (10/9) for this festival of all things nano in

Human beings have been trying to figure out the elementary composition of the universe since the era of ancient Greece.

Most of us are familiar with the concept of “side effects.” This is when something that is designed to be

LEGO blocks may be one of the simplest but most genius toys ever created, as evidenced by their popularity. Taking

You walk past a body products store on a weekend shopping trip and are immediately overtaken by fragrance, your nose

My favorite rain jacket is bright blue. So bright, in fact, that my first semester chemistry professor was able to