{"id":51426,"date":"2011-11-30T10:09:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T15:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=51426"},"modified":"2011-12-02T08:32:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T13:32:52","slug":"from-the-frying-pan-to-the-gas-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/11\/from-the-frying-pan-to-the-gas-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Frying Pan to the Gas Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49670\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Profleadbeater-vert.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49670  img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Profleadbeater-vert-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nicholas Leadbeater, associate professor of chemistry.\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Profleadbeater-vert-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Profleadbeater-vert-299x420.jpg 299w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Profleadbeater-vert-71x100.jpg 71w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Profleadbeater-vert.jpg 357w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 214px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 214\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicholas Leadbeater, associate professor of chemistry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the search continues for more environmentally friendly fuels, UConn chemistry professor Nicholas Leadbeater explains the simple chemical reaction that can convert vegetable oil \u2013 including used frying oil \u2013 into biodiesel. To hear him discuss the process, click <a href=\"http:\/\/files.ucdev.net\/today\/2011\/11\/biodiesel.mp3\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Leadbeater, an associate professor of chemistry, has perfected   the 100-second answer to questions that your science classes skipped   over. In clear, understandable language, he matter-of-factly explains   the science behind common phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>His talks were first aired on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wamc.org\/academic-minute\" target=\"_blank\">WAMC<\/a>, the PBS station in Albany, N.Y., as Academic Minutes, and hosted in print by <em>Inside Higher Education<\/em>. They will run weekly on <em>UConn Today<\/em> through the end of the fall semester.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to WAMC for the station\u2019s permission to post these spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemistry professor Nicholas Leadbeater explains the chemical reaction that can convert vegetable oil \u2013 including used frying oil \u2013 into biodiesel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":51425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[40],"class_list":["post-51426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 02:05:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51611,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51426\/revisions\/51611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/51425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51426"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=51426"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=51426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}