The solvent dichloromethane, or DCM, is commonly used to strip paint and cut grease. It's also what generations of chemistry students have used to dissolve pain reliever tablets in a lab exercise ...

It is the responsibility of the RIT EH&S Department to help ensure faculty, staff, students, and visitors have a safe and healthy working and learning environment in all RIT owned and operated ...

(NBC) — An independent lab has found a cancer-causing solvent in a popular brand of hand sanitizer. Back in March, lab workers at Valisure tested samples of Art-Naturals hand sanitizers. They found ...

On average, from 2011 to 2021, academic labs generated around 4,300 metric tons of hazardous waste each year. One of the largest lab-used solvents discarded is dichloromethane and more than half of ...

AMES, Iowa - When chemists want to combine two or more organic materials, ordinarily they use a solvent to carry out a reaction that results in the desired compound. Researchers at the U.S. Department ...

Daily solvent use is pretty much a given in a synthetic chemistry lab. In academic laboratories, it’s such an ingrained part of research that chemists might forget that solvents can be serious safety ...

An independent lab has found a cancer-causing solvent in a popular brand of hand sanitizer. Back in March, lab workers at Valisure tested samples of Art Naturals hand sanitizers. They found that the ...

Many chemicals have a shelf-life and can become more hazardous as time goes on. This webpage discusses two classes of time-sensitive hazardous chemicals: peroxide forming solvents and certain ...

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif., May 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A new chapter in extraction industry safety begins today. Solvent Direct, the nation's leading provider of high-purity lab supply and solutions ...

The objective of this guide is to provide laboratory employees with a framework for spill response planning. This planning must be done in advance, not after a spill occurs. All spills are different; ...