The chemicals that make cleaning products so effective can be difficult to break down or could even trigger ecosystem-altering algal blooms. Now, researchers reporting in ACS’ Langmuir have addressed those challenges with an environmentally compatible detergent made of tiny wood fibers and corn protein that removes stains on clothes and dishes just as well as commercial products.
Corn is like the underdog of oil. Which is such a strange sentence to say.
I’m pretty sure that if it wasn’t for the Spaniards, the Aztecs would have reached the moon by now using maize fuel.