Scientists from the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Harvard University, and Bar-Ilan University in Israel have grown ultrathin films made of organic molecules on the surface of liquid mercury. Their ...

Stearic acid is a long-chain fatty acid. It occurs in a variety of natural sources, including shea butter and coconut oil. Products containing stearic acid may be beneficial for the skin. Multiple ...

Objective: To determine whether healthy males who consumed increased amounts of dietary stearic acid compared with increased dietary palmitic acid through the consumption of commercially available ...

Stearic acid, formally octadecanoic acid, is a fatty acid that is present as a component of triglyceride esters in many natural sources. It occurs most widely in animal fats and products made from ...

Leather hardening has been around for such a long time that one might think that there was little left to discover, but [Jason F. Timmermans] certainly showed that is not the case. Right around the ...