Workers charged with cleaning the touch screens of iPhones and other Apple products were poisoned by the chemical used, n-hexane. From the Guardian: Prolonged over-exposure to n-hexane can cause ...

A proposal to build a soybean processing plant in Marietta near the Lancaster incinerator is shaking up a sleepy agricultural section of Lancaster County. The incinerator (at left) as seen from across ...

Apple is banning the use of two potentially hazardous chemicals during the final assembly of iPhones and iPads as part of the company's latest commitment to protect the factory workers who build its ...

Researchers report a one-pot catalytic reaction to convert cellulose to n-hexane in high yield (ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2014, DOI: 10.1021/sc5001463). A direct path from cellulose to hexane has the ...

Many non-organic soy products may contain traces of the neurotoxin hexane, according to a report by a research group that supports organic and sustainable agriculture. How worried should soy foodies ...

The Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (CPCL) refinery at Manali near the city has produced highest quantity of food grade hexane so far in 2020-21. It has produced 22,500 tonnes, surpassing its own ...