All articles by Andrea Sella – Page 10

  • Hand drawing chemical structures with chalk
    Podcast

    Silver fulminate and cyanate

    2010-12-01T00:00:00Z

     Andrea Sella reveals the history behind the symbol of the chemist - the stick diagram

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Gouy's tube

    2010-11-29T12:55:00Z

    How many physical scientists can really dance?

  • Review

    Blogosphere

    2010-10-28T11:16:31Z

    The Open Laboratory 2009. The best of science writing on blogs

  • Opinion

    Bridgman's seal

    2010-10-28T10:14:00Z

    The most reductive of literary critics are wont to say that there are only seven kinds of stories

  • CLASSIC-KIT-250
    Opinion

    Saussure's cyanometer

    2010-09-28T10:41:00Z

    In 1959, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis assembled his ideal sextet

  • CLASSIC-KIT-gooch-200
    Opinion

    Gooch's crucible

    2010-08-27T11:40:00Z

    Many years ago, a friend of mine teased me about how I, as a chemist, would probably die young of some dread occupational disease

  • CLASSIC-KIT-180
    Opinion

    Haldane's blood gas analyser

    2010-07-30T09:30:00Z

    Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who steered Ivory Coast to independence in 1959, was known as the Sage of Africa

  • CLASSIC-KIT-morton-200
    Opinion

    Morton flask

    2010-06-25T11:34:00Z

    Baldassarre Castiglione wrote that the perfect gentleman should 'affect in all things sprezzatura' - artful effortlessness

  • CLASSIC-KIT-300
    Opinion

    Dean-Stark apparatus

    2010-05-27T09:53:00Z

    If there is any single substance that unites pretty much all chemists, it has to be water

  • Opinion

    Allihn condenser

    2010-04-28T09:29:00Z

    One seldom sees grown-ups in public blowing bubbles

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Pasteur pipette

    2010-03-31T08:05:00Z

    Courage is not a trait that one always associates with scientists

  • Periodic table of the elements – 83 – Bismuth
    Podcast

    Bismuth

    2010-03-31T00:00:00Z

    The story of a heavy metal that could make spoons vanish in a hot cup of Victorian tea

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Vernier scale

    2010-02-26T10:39:00Z

    Sooner or later, it is the fate of every scholar to be accused of pedantry

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Petri dish

    2010-01-28T13:34:00Z

    When I was about 16, I came across a peculiar novel in my father's study

  • Periodic table of the elements – 58 – Cerium
    Podcast

    Cerium

    2010-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Andrea Sella tells the story of an element that sparks up lighters, vanishes burns, and helps to clean up the fumes from cars and trucks

  • CLASSIC-KIT-210
    Opinion

    Hofmann's voltammeter

    2010-01-06T11:06:00Z

    As a child, I remember wondering how far one could count

  • CLASSIC-KIT-250
    Opinion

    Keck clip

    2009-11-26T11:33:00Z

    Sooner or later, everyone has to grow up

  • Periodic table of the elements – 68 – Erbium
    Podcast

    Erbium

    2009-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Andrea Sella tells the story of Robert Bunsen and the element erbium

  • Ernst Büchner (right) with his father Wilhelm, Pfungstadt, Germany, c. 1865
    Opinion

    Büchners Funnel

    2009-10-28T09:35:00Z

    Laboratories are noisy places. Stop and listen.

  • CLASSIC-KIT-Gadolin-200
    Opinion

    Gadolins's condenser

    2009-10-01T13:34:00Z

    Chemistry is often compared to cookery, and the pages of a typical cookbook read like the pages of the wonderful compendia Organic- and Inorganic Syntheses