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Ferrocene and its numerous derivatives have no large-scale applications, but have many niche uses that exploit their unusual structure (ligand scaffolds, pharmaceutical candidates), robustness (anti-knock formulations, precursors to materials), and redox reactions (reagents and redox standards). Use for global cooling has been proposed. [17]
Sign on an antique gasoline pump advertising tetra-ethyl lead. Ethyl owned several patents on tetra-ethyl lead, an anti-knock fuel additive, and on its utilization: two patents on the chemical itself, a patent on a motor fuel—gasoline containing tetra-ethyl lead, and a patent on a method of using the fuel in an automobile engine.
The month-long jury trial was moved from Volusia due to concerns that media coverage made a fair jury trial impossible, and was moved 85 miles (137 km) to the Richard O. Watson Judicial Center in St. Augustine, Florida, after two years of preparation. The $1.5 million in legal defense fees were a 7th Circuit record.
Oklahoma death row inmate Kevin Ray Underwood is a day away from execution in the brutal 2006 rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl. Underwood, 44, is set to be executed by lethal injection on ...
The family of Tennessee death row inmate Gary Wayne Sutton held a press conference asking Gov. Bill Lee to examine the case for a potential pardon. ... Noted anti-death penalty activist Rev. Jeff ...
Advocates of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson are pleading for the state to halt its plans to execute him Thursday for the murder of his 2-year-old daughter – a crime Roberson says he did ...
The methodical removal of portions of the body over an extended period of time, usually with a knife, eventually resulting in death. Sometimes known as "death by a thousand cuts". Pendulum. [8] A machine with an axe head for a weight that slices closer to the victim's torso over time (of disputed historicity). Starvation/Dehydration ...
The judge who most likely signed off on the no-knock warrant that resulted in the shooting death of Amir Locke during a pre-dawn raid on a Minneapolis apartment was none other than Hennepin County ...