Thanks for Glenn Hess’s article “U.S. Seeks Tighter Rail Safety Rules” (C&EN, Aug. 18, page 22). However, the word “volatile” is misused when he writes that “ethanol is less volatile than crude oil.” ...
An erroneous term. Storage devices, including magnetic disks and tapes, solid state disks (SSDs) and rewritable optical discs, hold their content permanently until purposely changed (they are non ...