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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a method to convert a commonly discarded ...

ORNL has pioneered molten salt research since the 1960s, when its Molten Salt Reactor Experiment showed that molten salt ...

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The technique pioneered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory produces high-value-added chemicals from plastic waste without ...

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Surface volatiles—chemical substances that easily become gases or fluids at relatively low temperatures and pressures—are ...

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A Mississippi State physicist has produced a direct laboratory measurement of a key nuclear reaction believed to occur during explosive bursts on neutron stars. These bursts forge heavier elements—the ...

When chlorine (as a gas or dissolved in water) is added to sodium bromide solution, the chlorine takes the place of the bromine. Because chlorine is more reactive than bromine, it displaces bromine ...