Word: chemists
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...Balm, a salve for milk cows with, ah, dry skin, has become a popular hand cream. Recently a blacksmith and a chemist on New York's Long Island discovered that Dry Hoof Solution, a horse medication, strengthens nails. & Coming soon as an outlet for such products: Barn-Mart...
...common suggestions is, 'Why don't we just ship L.A.'s ozone up?' " says chemist Sherwood Rowland. "Well, 30% of the ozone is in the stratosphere, and it drifts down from there to the lower atmosphere rather than the other way around. The energy that would be needed to move the ozone up is about 2 1/2 times all of our current global power use. If you could take every power plant in the world, every piece of coal and every oil tanker, the energy would be insufficient -- and then you'd still have the problem...
Researchers at Merck laboratories, where Evans is a regular consultant, are currently using the chemist's techniques to study enzymes involved with HIV, the virus which causes AIDS...
Research in the chemist's lab focuses on the vancomycins. Like many other antibiotics, vancomycins are produced in nature by the bacteria Streptomyces...
Evans says that the synthetic organic chemist has an advantage over nature, in that reaction conditions can be regulated in the laboratory. While in nature, these reactions occur in an "ocean of chemicals," the contents of the test tubes can be controlled...