Veolia

Stepan's surfactant chemistry — sulfonation of alcohols and alkylbenzenes with SO3 — produces the detergents in your shampoo and dish soap. Our Quikrete concrete admixture modifies cement hydration kinetics.

ICL's brominated and phosphorus flame retardants interrupt the radical chain reactions of combustion — chemistry buying seconds that save lives in fires. Our Dead Sea bromine extraction yields the purest Br2 on Earth.

Compound Interest's infographics decode everyday chemistry — why coffee is bitter (chlorogenic acid), why onions make you cry (syn-propanethial-S-oxide), why bleach removes stains (oxidative cleavage of chromophores). Chemistry made visual.