{"id":475269,"date":"2018-05-15T09:22:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T13:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c19dc91f6eb5972e8681e6eae39e7188"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:22:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T13:22:04","slug":"producing-beneficial-propylene-while-consuming-a-major-greenhouse-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=475269","title":{"rendered":"Producing beneficial propylene while consuming a major greenhouse gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if a major heat-trapping greenhouse gas could be consumed to produce a valuable chemical that is in short supply? Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a catalyst\u2014a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction\u2014that may be able to do just that. This &#8220;bimetallic&#8221; catalyst, made of iron and nickel, drives the reaction of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and the energy-rich gas propane to produce propylene. Propylene is a chemical building block used in the manufacture of many everyday items, including batteries, automobile parts, and clothing and other textiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if a major heat-trapping greenhouse gas could be consumed to produce a valuable chemical that is in short supply? Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a catalyst&mdash;a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction&mdash;that may be able to do just that. This &#8220;bimetallic&#8221; catalyst, made of iron and nickel, drives the reaction of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and the energy-rich gas propane to produce propylene. Propylene is a chemical building block used in the manufacture of many everyday items, including batteries, automobile parts, and clothing and other textiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475270,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475269\/revisions\/475270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}