In 1826 German chemist Otto Unverdorben heated a sample of indigo figuring that “destructive distillation” would break it down into fragments that would offer a clue to the dye’s chemical makeup.
Excerpted from Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, by Dan Fagin. Copyright © March 19, 2013, Bantam Books. The very big idea that would transform Toms ...
Valerie A. Schmidt is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA. When chemists describe certain organic molecules as being ...
British chemist Sir William Henry Perkin received an honorary Google Doodle on Monday for his discovery of the first synthetic dye, a purplish-pink hue called mauveine, in 1856. Today would have been ...
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