All Atoms and bonds articles – Page 56
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Podcast
Boron nitride
Brian Clegg explains how the versatile compound boron nitride may be ‘the best kept secret in all of chemistry’
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Feature
Crystal clear
With the international year of crystallography upon us, Clare Sansom celebrates this important discipline
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Opinion
A century of isotopes
Once appalled by the military use of his discoveries, Frederick Soddy would pleased by his legacy today, says Mark Peplow
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Podcast
Potassium bromide
Did chemistry help control tension in the trenches? Brian Clegg investigates potassium bromide
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Research
Exotic interactions uncovered in actinide systems
First experimental evidence of phi interactions in an organoactinide complex
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Review
A close look at microscopy
Elisabeth Jeffries zooms in on scanning probe microscopy and other techniques
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Opinion
Crystallography 101
Philip Ball reflects on a century of progress in the science of structure
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Feature
A matter of solvation
The processes underpinning how solvent and solutes molecules interact are fundamental, but still mysterious. Philip Ball investigates
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Opinion
A self-assembled periodic table
Philip Ball unpacks the instructions for a new periodic table
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Opinion
Change: the only constant
Jim Al-Khalili discusses the risks involved in switching to a new area of research and invites chemists to take a quantum biology leap
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Podcast
Phosphoric Acid
Lars Öhrström on phosphoric acid: Crucial for crops and DNA’s backbone, it’s the energy currency of the biological world