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...much the same way as ordinary "button" batteries (like the one in your watch) and "finger" batteries (think AA). Ions travel from an anode, pass through a solution called an electrolyte to a cathode and emerge as an electrical charge. Instead of running ions through metal casings full of toxic and corrosive substances like lithium and alkaline, Enfucell uses a thin paper sheet as a conduit. It pastes one side with zinc and the other side with manganese dioxide. Ions flow through an electrolyte solution of water and zinc chloride within the paper...
...week on the sale of certain plastic toys aimed at children under 3? And why are activists warning holiday shoppers in the most alarming terms against buying them? "Sucking on some of these teethers and toys," says Rachel Gibson of Environment California, a nonprofit, "is like sucking on a toxic lollipop...
...ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical, says the crackdowns on toys are not justified by the science. "The E.U. aims to ban products that show adverse effect at very high doses in rats," says the ACC's Marian Stanley. "Many essential products are made from starting materials that can be quite toxic at high doses. This does not mean that the final consumer products are toxic." As for recent phthalate studies on humans, she says, they are either preliminary or "overhyped." Meanwhile, toy companies are relying on a 2001 review by a Consumer Product Safety Commission panel that found "no demonstrated health...
...this story’s mise en scène seems far too obvious. After all, Litvinenko was poisoned with Polonium 210, which is 250 million times more toxic than cyanide. In order to get this obscure substance experts said one needs access to a nuclear laboratory. And the only reference to it as a weapon was found in a 1994 paper only published in, you guessed it, Russian. But even more importantly, why would the quite professional Russian secret services murder someone slowly, giving them over three weeks to blame them, and do it with a substance that could...
...event of a real fire, given the worrying number of Eliot residents who remained inside despite the alarm, there is a far more pertinent question as the Eliot community reflects on the house’s 75th birthday, celebrated this past Thursday. In the face of silly toilet handles, toxic flooding, false alarms, and one very unhinged fireman, what can Eliot do to restore itself to glory? For what it’s worth, we think we have the answer. Bring Ben Folds to the Fête...