Each year, a single chemical plant may have report to environmental authorities as many as 50, 000 measurements.
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About half of the profits in the chemical division come from a single chemical, carbonate, according to Andrew Benson at Schroder Salomon Smith Barney.
Its products--including Synvisc, which is injected into the knee to treat osteoarthritis, and Hylaform, which corrects facial wrinkles--are all based on a single chemical called hyaluronan.
This problem is compounded by the possible presence of multiple chemicals which together have an additive effect that greatly increases the lethal action of any single chemical.
Because kinases have similar chemical structures, a single thoughtfully designed chemical can gum up more than one, taking away the cancer cells' ability to nourish themselves and divide.
Headquartered in Midland, Michigan, Chemical Financial is a diversified financial services company, which operates through a single subsidiary bank, Chemical Bank.
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Biological drugs, which have a complex structure, are far more complicated to produce than regular chemical drugs, which have a single molecular structure.
As a co-founder of the much-lauded DFA label and production team, Murphy has produced and remixed the likes of Le Tigre, Nine Inch Nails and The Chemical Brothers before releasing his first single as LCD Soundsystem in 2002.
Targeting just one chemical inside cancerous cells could one day lead to a single test for a broad range of cancers, researchers say.
The databases can--in a single day--test one disease-causing protein against a trillion chemical compounds and rank which ones are most likely to latch onto the protein and gum up its works.
In a research project conducted during last year's holiday season and posted on YouTube, Bill Hammack, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, concluded that a single-file line leading to three cashiers is about three times faster than having a separate line for each cashier.
It's not well-known or even thought about but ever since Leo Hendricks unveiled the first fully synthetic moldable hard plastic called Bakelite to the American Chemical Society in 1909, except for a very small percentage that has been incinerated, every single molecule of plastic ever manufactured still exists somewhere in our environment.
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