The farmer had purchased some potassium permanganate. Exactly why he needed it isn’t clear but using it as a disinfectant to clean the udders and teats of cows before and after milking is a...
"I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet." With these words Victor Frankenstein began his account of the...
Chemistry can be roughly divided into two branches, analysis and synthesis. Chemists either try to identify existing substances or make new ones. By the early 19th century, a number of substances...
