Astronauts may be able to make cement using their own urine!
It sounds ridiculous, of course, but chemist Anna-Lena Kjøniksen and her colleagues have made a cement from urea (major component of urine) and a faux lunar soil.
It sounds ridiculous, of course, but chemist Anna-Lena Kjøniksen and her colleagues have made a cement from urea (major component of urine) and a faux lunar soil.
Dr Kerry Elgie talks us through the key maintenance which should be regularly carried out on your vacuum pump!
The Chianese Organometallic Chemistry group at Colgate University (Hamilton, NY, USA) are using a custom designed Multicell Parallel High-Pressure Reactor from Asynt to conduct reproducible hydrogenation experiments in parallel, to rapidly determine the kinetic properties of their novel catalysts.
We are pleased to share our newsletter for June 2020! Packed full of news, and some fun stuff, it’s definitely worth a read. We hope you enjoy it!
We are pleased to welcome ULTRA INSTRUMENTS to the Asynt family and distributor network for India!
Having you resorted to carrying out “lab work” on your cooker in lockdown? Dr Mike Kenny shares his siphon coffee making system while he has withdrawal symptoms from being in the lab!
Scientists use a diamond anvil to product black nitrogen – Nitrogen is no longer to be considered an exceptional element!
The ReactoMate DATUM is a high quality, dual-rod stainless steel and aluminium support system built to ensure the stability and safety of your lab reactor. Find out more!
We are pleased to share our newsletter for May 2020! Packed full of news, and some fun stuff, it’s definitely worth a read. We hope you enjoy it! Read online
It’s #NationalAsparagusMonth and that means that our own Martyn Fordham will be explaining to our team (it’s an annual event!) that asparagus can give you unusually smelly urine!