Lemon Juice and Reverse Osmosis
🧠 The most confident person in the room is the one who understands the least about what is being discussed. It has a name, and it has nothing…
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Lemon Juice and Reverse Osmosis
In 1995 in Pittsburgh a man named Wheeler robbed two banks in broad daylight. He had rubbed lemon juice on his face: lemon juice is invisible ink, so…
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ARBOK-MEK — Methyl Ethyl Ketone Recovery Past the Azeotrope
Michael Vischmidt, Dmitry Ponomarenko. ARBOK Strategic Research Institute. October 2026. License: CC BY 4.0. MEK is in every can of paint, and its waste costs far more than…
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Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK): The Solvent Whose Waste We No Longer Throw Away
MEK is in every can of paint, and its waste costs far more than it seems Open a can of paint: the sharp sweetish smell you will catch…
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ARBOK-Cr — Chromium Oxide Wash Water Without Steam and Landfill
Michael Vischmidt, Dmitry Ponomarenko. ARBOK Strategic Research Institute. October 2026. License: CC BY 4.0. Chromium oxide is safe, but the water that washes it is not Green paint…
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Chromium Oxide: A Green Pigment, but Not Green for Nature
Chromium oxide is safe, but the water that washes it is not Green paint on roofs, glaze on tiles, refractory brick in the furnace of a steel plant:…
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ARBOK-Solvents — Dichloromethane Without Losses and Burning
Michael Vischmidt, Dmitry Ponomarenko. ARBOK Strategic Research Institute. October 2026. License: CC BY 4.0. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23282522 (Zenodo, CC BY 4.0). ResearchGate: publication page. Pharma cannot do without a…
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Big Pharma and Dichloromethane: Now Without Losses and Burning
Pharma cannot do without a solvent that is hard to live with Dichloromethane is a solvent in pharma production. Extraction and synthesis run on it, and without them…
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ARBOK-MEOX — Direct Oxidation of Methane to Methanol
Michael Vischmidt, Dmitry Ponomarenko, Alexander Nikulin, PhD. ARBOK Strategic Research Institute. Preprint, October 2026. License: CC BY 4.0. Abstract Methane is the most abundant fuel gas, yet it…
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