All articles by Chemistry World – Page 21
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News
Note book: February 2012
Toxic release inventory 2010 The latest Toxic release inventory shows levels of toxins released into the US environment up for 2010 compared with the previous two years, but lower than for 2007. The report, published annually by the Environmental Protection Agency, shows that the increase is mainly due ...
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Controlling termites with nanoparticles
Silica nanoparticles could help exterminate entire termite colonies
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Podcast
January 2012
Chemistry World podcast - January 2012 1:05- Caffeine content of high-street espressos5:08- A zombie reaction rises from the dead7:53- Antony Williams discusses collating chemical data and the ChemSpider database14:57- Crab shell used to create a transparent plastic17:40- A homonuclear diatomic molecule with a permanent dipole21:53- US Army research chemist Jesse ...
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Opinion
Letters: January 2012
Why is Chemistry World so shy about showing the language of chemistry on its pages? We do after all possess, along with music, one of the most efficient notations ever invented. So, in the latest edition I was very interested to see an article on marine adhesives (Chemistry World, Dec ...
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Business
Business roundup: January 2012
Pharmaceutical Mental health drug use up More than one fifth of adults in the US took a mental health drug of some kind in 2010, according to a new report. The authors from Medco Health Solutions, a US pharmacy services company, found that use was higher for women than for ...
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Interview Yongyuth Yuthavong
Yongyuth Yuthavong discusses the challenges that face scientists in Thailand with Kathleen Too
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EU pays a heavy price for air pollution
Air pollution from the 10,000 largest industrial facilities cost the region as much as 169 billion euros in 2009
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Opinion
Letters: December 2011
Metals and metalloid elements in the environment have a major impact on human, animal and plant life as seen in the recent Hungarian red mud catastrophe. Some elements like calcium, iron, zinc etc serve as essential nutrients without which life fails to thrive, whereas lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, antimony and ...
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Business
Business roundup: December 2011
Almac to hire 500 over next 12 months UK contract research organisation (CRO) Almac says that it expects to hire about 500 people in the next 12 months, split between its headquarters in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, and its new US site in Souderton, Pennsylvania. Almac, a privately owned company, is ...
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China opens clean energy lab
First national laboratory to research clean energy and efficient use of fossil fuels opens its doors
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Functionalised fibre catches flu before you do
Carbohydrate coated chitosan could be used in face masks and filters to trap the flu virus
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Podcast
November 2011
Chemistry World Podcast - November 201101:22- World's longest carbon-carbon bond created04:20- Pitcher plant inspires ultimate non-stick surface07:54- NASA's John Grotzinger discusses the difficulties of getting the Curiosity rover to Mars with its massive payload of analytical instruments, and what it will do when it gets there15:55- Conjuring up gram quantities ...
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Opinion
Letters: November 2011
The presenter of the BBC Horizon programme which dealt with the safety of nuclear installations broadcast on 14 September was careful to avoid commitment but clearly implied that, based on the concept of tolerability of risk, the nuclear energy industry is as safe as any other of equal size ...
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Almac to hire 500 in next year
The Northern Ireland based company has increased its workforce six fold in the last 5 years to over 3000