In addition to skin care lotions and creams, emulsions are also used to make hair conditioners, sunscreens, makeup products, and more. Check your ingredient lists next time and see if you can figure out which ingredients were mixed together, and with what emulsifier!
Pompeii as a source. The discovery of Pompeii is of huge importance for our modern-day understanding of the ancient Roman-Italic world-partly because the more public and monumental ruins left behind by Imperial Rome have often been misleading. The excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum ... offer an intact vision of daily life in a Roman society in all its aspects. Their ruination and destruction left crucial questions unanswered, and made it impossible in many ways to gather a satisfactory understanding of the Roman world from them.
Copernicium was discovered during fusion experiments at the Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Germany in 1996. The name was proposed by Prof Sigurd Hofmann. Under the IUPAC rules, his team were forbidden from naming the element after a living person. 'After IUPAC officially recognised our discovery, we â that is all scientists involved in the discovery â agreed on proposing the name copernicium for the new element 112. 'We would like to honour an outstanding scientist who changed our view of the world,' said Prof Hofmann, head of the discovering team.