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  • 15.04.2009 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - Why do you wince when you bite into a lemon?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - If someone is brave enough to bite into a lemon, then you can instantly tell from their expression that it wasn't exactly a pleasant experience. There's a reason why we can perceive the taste of sour. If something is too acidic, then it sends a signal to the brain. In ...

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  • 18.03.2009 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: Lithium Ion Batteries - The Energy Store of the Future

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - In this podcast you will learn how chemistry improves the efficiency of lithium ion batteries. In comparison to other battery types, lithium-ion batteries have some major advantages. For one, they are the most efficient battery on the market right now. In order to make a ...

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  • 18.02.2009 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - What gives a rubber band its elasticity?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - If you stretch a rubber band and then release it, it snaps back into its original shape. As you probably know, rubber has elastic properties, which is why its also called an elastomer. However, the natural state of caoutchouc, or raw rubber, is exactly the opposite of elastic. ...

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  • 11.02.2009 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: Chemistry makes wind energy more economical

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - In this podcast you will learn how chemistry improves the cost effectiveness of environmentally and climate friendly wind energy. It is generally less well known that modern wind turbines would hardly be conceivable without innovative solutions in chemistry. The huge rotor blades can be up to 60 meters long and are subjected ...

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  • 04.02.2009 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - What happens to meat when you roast it?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - The discovery of fire opened up whole new worlds of taste for stone-age humans. They could start turning those chunks of raw mammoth meat into beautifully browned roast leg of mammoth and were benefiting from an interesting chemical reaction. In 1912, did French chemist Louis ...

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  • 21.01.2009 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - What is spider silk made of?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - Over millions of years of evolution, spiders have developed the perfect material for constructing a net: spider silk. Material researchers can get pretty worked up just talking about its properties. It has five times the tensile strength that a steel thread of the same ...

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  • 07.01.2009 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - What is dry-cleaning?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - When a shirt gets dirty, you usually just have to chuck it in the washing machine, add a little laundry detergent, and let the combination of water and soap do the rest. But some pieces of clothing are too delicate to put in there. As the name implies, dry-cleaning doesn't use any water - or any soap, for that matter. In ...

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  • 10.12.2008 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - How does a plasma monitor work?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - In simple terms, behind the glass on the front of a plasma screen you'll find a whole lot of tiny cells that are filled with one of the 'noble' gases, generally neon or xenon. Each of these cells represents a single point - a pixel. If a voltage is applied to the gas, then it ...

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  • 26.11.2008 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - What is shoe polish made of?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - If you want your leather shoes to continue to look clean and snazzy, then there's no way around it: you have to polish them occasionally. The polish that you apply contains both fats - lipids - and wax. The lipids make the leather soft and smooth, while the wax protects it from ...

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  • 12.11.2008 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - How does a glow stick work?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - Although the way glow sticks work at first seems almost magical, it's actually pretty simple. They provide a purely chemical source of light. A glow stick is a sealed, see-through plastic pipe containing a fluorescent dye and two different liquids. In entertaining episodes our ...

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  • 29.10.2008 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - What are liquid crystals?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - After the advent of liquid crystal displays, or LCDs, everybody nowadays has at least heard the term 'liquid crystal'. The high-tech screens are everywhere: in computer monitors, cell phones, digital cameras, and calculators. In entertaining episodes our Chemical Reporter ...

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  • 15.10.2008 – 11:21

    BASF Podcast: Food Fortification - Using Vitamins to Counter Malnutrition

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - In this podcast you will learn how food fortification can help prevent children going blind. According to UNICEF, 40 to 60 percent of children and young people in developing nations are affected by a lack of vitamin A. This makes it the most widespread form of malnutrition. ...

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  • 15.10.2008 – 11:21

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - What is cling film made of?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - Cling film - also called plastic wrap - has to be pretty versatile. It should stretch a lot without tearing, it should keep out the germs, and it has to seal in moisture and aroma to keep those cold cuts from drying out and that chunk of French cheese from smelling up the ...

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  • 01.10.2008 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - What are emulsifiers?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - If you put the oil and water together in a single glass, then they act like a couple of suspicious neighbors. Each quickly finds its own level - the oil on top and the water below - and has as little interaction with the other as possible. There's a kind of fence between them that each is unable to overcome on its own: this ...

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  • 17.09.2008 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - What is mother-of-pearl?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - While taking a walk along the beach, you might have noticed shells that have inner surfaces that shimmer in colorful patterns when they reflect the sunlight. The iridescent substance responsible for it is called nacre, or more commonly: mother-of-pearl. The name says it all, ...

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  • 03.09.2008 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - How does conditioner make your hair soft?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - Hair isn't exactly lying still all the time. It's constantly in motion - we brush it, run our fingers through it, and style it in all kinds of tortuous ways. When we tax it and strain it, the shingles on the outside of a strand of hair can stand up - or even break off. But with ...

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  • 20.08.2008 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - What are bioplastics?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - Bioplastics might look artificial, but they sure act like they're organic. When you toss them on a compost heap, for example, they simply disappear. There's no magic involved, though. Compostable bioplastics disintegrate in nature without leaving a trace. In entertaining weekly episodes our Chemical Reporter answers questions of ...

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  • 13.08.2008 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: Ionic Liquids - Liquid Salts with many Talents

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - In this podcast you will learn how the unique characteristics of liquid salts make ionic liquids so interesting for industry. Ionic liquids are molten salts that are also in a liquid form at room temperature. The unique characteristics of these liquid salts are the very thing that makes ionic liquids so interesting for ...

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  • 06.08.2008 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - How does a drain cleaner work?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - A lot of stuff disappears down the drain that never comes out the other end. If you can't get to the blockage in the pipe to clean it mechanically, then your only choice to get the water flowing again is a drain cleaner. In entertaining weekly episodes our Chemical Reporter ...

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  • 23.07.2008 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - Why does hair turn grey?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - In campfire stories, you often hear that someone's hair turns grey or white overnight because of a stressful or frightening experience. That's pretty obviously an exaggeration - but what ARE the factors involved when hair loses its young and vibrant tones and assumes that ...

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  • 09.07.2008 – 11:20

    BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - Why is sugar sticky?

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - Sugar's ability to adhere to a surface pretty impressive. Back in the 1950s, women even used sugar water to hold extravagant hairdos in place - and it made them pretty indestructible. But how does the sugar do it? In entertaining weekly episodes our Chemical Reporter answers questions of our Podcast listeners on Chemistry in our ...

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  • 20.06.2008 – 11:20

    ots.Audio: BASF Podcast: Magical colors thanks to nanotechnology

    Ludwigshafen (ots) - In this Podcast of "Chemistry of Innovations" you will learn how "colors without dyes" can have effects that are almost magical. Normal color, like we know from everyday life, doesn't change its color impression when you look at it from different directions. With the help of nanotechnology researchers at BASF have now ...

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