Ethyl acetate is used as a solvent for varnishes, lacquers, dry cleaning, stains, fats and nitrocellulose. It is released during the production of artificial silk and leather, and during the ...

Ethyl butyl ketone is used as a solvent and as an ingredient in fragrances. Ethyl butyl ketone can effect you if breathed in and by passing through the skin. The effects of high concentrations may be ...

Born in Sonsón, Colombia, in 1938, the late Jairo Alvarez was the second-born of 11 children. He and his siblings helped their Papacito, Mario, and Mamacita, Adela, tend to corn and potato crops ...

Israeli-American Nobel Prize Laureate Daniel Kahneman, who died last year at 90, decided to end his life through assisted suicide in Switzerland, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

It was Christmas of 1988 when Jainendra K. Jain found himself musing over an idea that would reshape the landscape of theoretical physics. Holed up in the quiet solitude of his study, the young Indian ...