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China Leads All Nations in Publication of Chemical Patents According to CAS
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the global expert on chemical information, reports that China's patent office is now the world's leading producer of patent invention applications in chemistry. China trailed Japan's patent office, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for more than a decade, but passed the USPTO in 2005, WIPO in 2006, and exceeded Japan for the first time on a monthly basis in 2008. In 2009, China will record an entire year as the number one producer of chemical patents, and CAS projects that trend to continue. Read the recent news release.
Colors of Chemistry - February 2010
In his travels aboard the HMS Beagle, British naturalist Charles Darwin noted, "Throughout South America, the flamingo appears singularly attached to salt lakes. I saw instances of this throughout Patagonia, in the Cordillera of Northern Chile, and at the Galapagos Islands." Bright pink American Flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) and other species of the genus Phoenicopterus live in some of the most inhospitable habitats of the world. Read more >>
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