SUNY Morrisville Contemporary Chemistry

When you purchase apple juice, you are expecting to receive apple juice, but that isn’t always the case.   Sometimes the juice will be a mix of apple and pear juices.   This mixture is done for economic benefit to the producer.   Different fruit juice concentrates have different values on the market.   Adding some of the less valuable concentrate to the mix makes it cheaper to produce.    

          As we all know, since December of 2019, the Coronaviruss has played an enormous impact on how our whole world has been operating. Ever since the outbreak the world has been flipped upside down, it started with a lot of news coverage on what is happening in China, then the virus hit America like a rock and quickly spread across the country. Things immediately began to change, shops and businesses began to shut down; then, everyone started to panic when everyone has been required to quarantine themselves and bought all the toilet paper. 

No tillage farming is a practice that has been going on since the 1800s. People then may not have known the exact purpose and benefits; however, it was for the best. Through research and studies on soil fertility, we have discovered the importance of no tillage practices.

Imagine this, you’re taking a walk through the local park with your dog or significant other. It’s a bright sunny day with clear blue skies. All of a sudden, you hear the familiar roar of a tractor-trailer. As this monstrosity passes by, you see large clouds of jet-black smoke exiting the vertical exhaust stacks. As this dirty, oily machine drives past, you watch the plumes of smoke dissipate into the atmosphere. All you can think is, “Oh, that has to be good for the environment.” Many people question why the transportation industry is even allowed to operate when the equipment is so dirty and harmful to our environment. Well, the need to transport supplies and materials is essential to our society. The real question is, Can we achieve the same goal in a more environmentally friendly way?   Find Image Here  

             A study conducted by W. Rathnayake and other co-workers developed a way to use sunflower oil to improve the properties of a common plastic called polypropylene so that it can be used under great thermo-mechanical stress.  This is quite an impressive innovation because our society has become accustomed to using plastic and it is a part of our everyday life and quite frankly we can’t live without it.

In order to fully appreciate how to manage environmental damage due to nuclear fallout events, it is important to appreciate how radioisotopes behave in the environment. 

Realizing the importance of environmentally friendly waste management is crucial in every industry.  We have a limited amount of resources, and, combine with a growing population, the significance of sustainable use has become increasingly critical to society.

Figure 1 Tuberculosis (TB) is a well-known human disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis (mtb); mtb is a successful intracellular pathogen that persists within host phagocytes in which they can survive and remain in the dormant stage in macrophages and interfere with the host immune system to avoid elimination by the effector immune cells. TB is considered a major infectious disease even though there have been many advances in treatment and management. Tuberculosis is a topic that I am fascinated in because I will be in the medical field very soon and it is interesting to see medicine making such advances. Tuberculosis can be quickly treated over a period of six months with a multidrug regimen of first line drugs, but this strategy fails to remain effective for various reasons. One of the main reasons is due to patient noncompliance because patients do not have the desire to continue treatment for so long, and eventually become discouraged. There are also problems such as i