organization:american chemical society

2019 Big Deals Survey Report- An Updated Mapping of Major Scholarly Publishing Contracts in Europe
By Rita Morais, Lennart Stoy and Lidia Borrell-Damián
▻https://eua.eu/resources/publications/829:2019-big-deals-survey-report.html

Conducted in 2017-2018, the report gathers data from 31 consortia covering an unprecedented 167 contracts with five major publishers: Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and American Chemical Society. Readers will discover that *the total costs reported by the participating consortia exceed one billion euros for periodicals, databases, e-books and other resources – mainly to the benefit of large, commercial scholarly publishers*.

How Does Salt Melt Ice ? [Science Video]
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From the American Chemical Society: Winter weather can mean treacherous driving across much of the country. Road crews spread rock salt all over the highways and byways, but why? This week, we break down the chemistry that keeps the roads safe when bad weather hits. [Reactions] The post How Does Salt Melt Ice? [Science Video] appeared first on Geeks are Sexy Technology News.

Study Finds 8 Fracking Chemicals Toxic to Humans | EcoWatch
▻http://ecowatch.com/2014/08/19/fracking-chemicals-toxic-to-humans
S’il en reste à convaincre que la #fracturation_hydraulique c’est de la merde

Environmental engineer William Stringfellow and colleagues at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of the Pacific told the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco that they scoured databases and reports to compile a list of the chemicals commonly used in fracking.

But the researchers assembled a list of 190 of them, and considered their properties. For around one-third of them, there was very little data about health risks, and eight of them were toxic to mammals.

Fracking is a highly controversial technique, and has not been handed a clean bill of health by the scientific societies.

Seismologists have warned that such operations could possibly trigger earthquakes, and endocrinologists have warned that some of the chemicals used are known hormone-disruptors, and likely therefore to represent a health hazard if they get into well water.