Special Chemical
I’m glad that my cousin returned to India from USA on leave.I met him today after one long year.He gave me a daily moisturizing lotion- Aveeno- which is fragrance free with natural colloidal oatmeal and also non-greasy.Its label showing dimethicone( ingredient), caught my eyes on it. Actually, dimethicone is nothing but polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), belongs to … Read more
Design:Key for Engineering
Well, I watched a T.V show-Doing Da Vinci-on Discovery, telecasted in India today. It was good.Actually it was about the construction of a catapult designed by none other than Leonardo Da Vinci. A Leonardo man organized theĀ group of a builder,carpenter et all to construct it. Here are the related videos.And I likeĀ The Vitruvian Man ,which … Read more
Caution: Chemicals are hazardous
Industrial Safety and Hazard Management is an important subject in chemical engineering. I attended a seminar last year on the same, and below are a few presentations. I read a post at my favorite blog Lamentations on Chemistry- The pitfalls of process intensification. I wanted to make you aware of the same. Occupational safety training … Read more
The Golden Jubilee
I read an article at The Hindu Sci Tech by Pradeep (IIT Madras), about Nanotechnology.I felt interesting and wanted to share some nanotech snippets here. Well, let me start with Richard P.Feynman .He suggested that lifeless machines could move around in our body through the blood vessels and do surgeries, and the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica … Read more
2010: The International Year of Biodiversity
UN Secretary General Welcome Message for the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity from CBD on Vimeo. The United Nations has designated 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity and International Year of Youth.