Your Next Plastic Bottle Could Come From Uranium

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ChemarcEnvironmentalists and the scientific community at large have for years now aimed to phase plastic away. The need to discover an alternative has led to more debates and conventions than possibly anything else on the planet. And if the latest chemical industry news coming from the University of Manchester holds true, we could be looking at a solution in the form of uranium. The findings could be the key to uranium transiting into new application forms. They posit the possibility of uranium performing reactions previously considered a domain of transition metals like rhodium and palladium. If true, it could render uranium capable of diversifying reactivity between lanthanides and transition metals to establish compound formation dictums never seen before. This could be groundbreaking chemical news with the potential to expand the little that is known about uranium from a metallurgy and industrial application standpoint. It could catalyze the entry of uranium into mainstream chemical production. Until now, uranium was largely the preserve of the nuclear industry for producing power and weaponry. That may change in the times ahead. For years, plastic has knocked the bottom out of environment science and preservation. The new possibilities could be the take-off point for biodegradable plastic or its equivalent to surface out. That could lead to the discovery of a new building block tangibly superlative to plastic in significant ways. Chemical market news makers and industry voices have been equating uranium with a mystery bubble holding great possibilities for the medical and advanced pharmacy sphere. The Manchester findings could be a shot in the arm to that line of thought. It could fuel the new medicine industry miles ahead, especially curative medicine. A leading journal that published the findings has hailed it potentially significant, drawing a parallel with how modern computer displays and TVs have transformed since the discovery of liquid crystal displays or LCDs. Uranium naturally exists in oxide forms that are pivotal to the production of nuclear fuels. Two of its most common oxide forms, Triuranium octaoxide (U3O8) and Uranium dioxide (UO2, are also the most stable forms for storage and disposal. It was discovered in 1789 in its oxide form in the mineral pitchblende by Martin Heinrich Klaproth and gets its name from the planet Uranus. It wasn’t until Eugne-Melchior Pligot isolated the metal from its native form that uranium got its nomenclature as an element. In 1896, Henri Becquerel opened a world of possibilities to discovery by associating uranium with radioactivity. The Manchester findings would be tested in different ways around the world and we may have to lie in wait until the proof of the pudding is out there. But it surely has the chemical business news circuit chirping which will fuel new opinions, critiquing and information. Keep your eyes peeled.At Chemarc we have partnered with the leading chemical trade publication company in India, to bring online editions of their publications that have served the industry for over 50 years.We have also put together a committed team of professionals and experts with deep domain experience in the industry and academia, to publish incisive real time news and features. We also have market data; our proprietary Chemarc Indices provide aggregated price movements of meaningful sets of products.We have developed technology to capture and present detailed company information, including financials for all public, private limited and limited liability partnership companies. Our technology also captures the latest in import and export regulations and provides authentic details on various duties, taxes and incentives. All this is available 24×7 on web and mobile.With a committed community of 50,000 users in over 25,000 companies, our subscribers are growing rapidly, providing the perfect audience for companies to broadcast their product and company messages.

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