WHILE typical salts are soluble in water and insoluble in hydrocarbons a few are soluble in both media. No member of the large and important group of diazonium salts is known to be soluble in weakly ...

This article originally was published in the March/April 2008 issue of the Green Section Record. Water is fast becoming the new gasoline. Turf has to have it, and at the same time the supply continues ...

Soils have a natural characteristic called the cation exchange capacity (CEC) that allows them to hold (and exchange) cations (e.g., Ca+2 or Na+). These cations are held tight enough on the CEC that ...

Q: I just read your column “Is salty water reused in car washes?” As a retired chemical marketer who has dealt with salt solubility issues, I suggest you look further into the issue of whether there ...

Salt-induced swelling is a crucial phenomenon in pork meat processing, significantly influencing the meat's water-holding capacity (WHC). Existing theories focus on the role of myofibrillar proteins, ...