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Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, U.S., that was the site of the worst environmental disaster involving chemical wastes in U.S. history. After discovery of the pollution in …

World War I saw the debut of the tank and chemical weapons, the widespread use of machine guns and aircraft, improvements in artillery, and the pinnacle of the age of battleships.

A protocol signed at the1925 Geneva Conference for the Supervision of the International Traffic in Arms restricted the use of chemical and biological agents in warfare.

Nov 26, 2025 · The Bhopal disaster was a chemical leak that occurred on December 3, 1984, in the Indian city of Bhopal. It killed an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people. At the time, it was the worst …

Nov 18, 2025 · The modern era of the pharmaceutical industry—of isolation and purification of compounds, chemical synthesis, and computer-aided drug design—is considered to have begun in …

Oct 27, 2025 · The periodic table was created in 1869 and revised in 1871 by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, who placed elements in columns according to their chemical properties.

Nov 14, 2025 · Antoine Lavoisier, prominent French chemist and leading figure in the 18th-century chemical revolution who developed an experimentally based theory of the chemical reactivity of …

Nov 18, 2025 · Naphtha, any of various volatile, highly flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures used chiefly as solvents and diluents and as raw materials for conversion to gasoline. Naphtha was the …

Dec 1, 2025 · This section describes the structure and physical and chemical properties of fatty acids. It also explains how living organisms obtain fatty acids, both from their diets and through metabolic …