Down at the phone booth, we met Talc Alf. Talc Alf works in the soft stone from which talcum powder is made. According to him, practically all the baby powder in Australia is made from talc stone ...

A crystal radio is basically a high Q resonator tied to an antenna and an envelope detector. These days the envelope detector is a point contact diode such as a 1N34 Germanium diode. The resonant ...

Johnson & Johnson has proposed to pay almost $9bn to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits it faces in North America that claim its baby powder and other talc-based products cause cancer.

No matter how graphite is formed, the nearly pure crystals of carbon give it unique chemical and physical properties. Graphite is a very soft mineral, often as soft as talc. It’s formed of ...

In honor of National "Collect Rocks" Day, here's a look at the wide variety of minerals -- such as crystals and precious ...

Crystal skulls are not uncommon or terribly mysterious. Thousands are produced every year in Brazil, China, and Germany. But there are a handful of these rather macabre objects that have fueled ...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has published a new assessment of talc’s potential to cause cancer, concluding that is it ‘probably carcinogenic’ to humans.

The total annual loan cost (TALC) estimates what you’d pay in several scenarios Greg Daugherty has worked 25+ years as an editor and writer for major publications and websites. He is also the ...

J&J in Talks With Holdouts to $6.5 Billion Talc Settlement By Dietrich Knauth and Mike Spector NEW YORK (Reuters) -Johnson & Johnson said on Friday it is negotiating with plaintiffs' lawyers who ...

In C, lung tissue biopsy demonstrating an interstitial granulomatous reaction to the talc particles with a giant-cell reaction (H&E; magnification, ×100), whereas, in D, under polarized light, ...