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Business
Business roundup: March 2010
Air Products makes hostile bid for Airgas Air Products has launched a $7 billion (£4.47 billion) hostile takeover bid for rival gas supplier Airgas to gain access to the US bottled gas market. If shareholders take up the $60 a share bid, the combined company would become the largest industrial ...
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Podcast
February 2010
Chemistry World Podcast - February 201000:12- Introduction01:58-- Molecular walker takes a stroll 05:18-- Why ancient Egyptians put lead in their eye make-up07:30-- Mike Edwards explains what's bugging the bees 14:20 -- A copper catalyst to grab CO2 from the air 17:00-- A two-faced catalyst to turn ...
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Opinion
Letters: February 2010
Source: © BETTMANN/CORBIS C P Snow - author, physicist, diplomat C P Snow, the subject of Mathew Waugh’s ’Last retort’ (Chemistry World, December 2009, p88), knew and greatly admired J Desmond Bernal. Snow’s first novel The Search (1934) included a character modelled on Bernal and tells the ...
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Business
Business roundup: February 2010
Haiti’s helpers The horrendous magnitude 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti has prompted many companies to provide what assistance they can. The earthquake has destroyed roads and buildings and claimed thousands of lives - the Red Cross has estimated that at least 50,000 people have lost their lives to the quake ...
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News
News in brief: February 2010
Molecules replace mice in mazes We have all heard of psychologists training mice to solve mazes, but researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois, US, have found that molecules can do the same trick. Source: © Journal of the American Chemical Society Molecules can solve simple mazes ...
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News
The Royal Institution: two centuries of impact
A former director of research says the Royal Institution's key role in cutting edge research should not be forgotten
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Opinion
Letters: January 2010
I do not recognise the picture of dug discovery at the ’coal-face’ painted by Clare Sansom and her sources in the article Molecules made to measure (Chemistry World, November 2009, p50) I worked at Roche UK (Roche Research Centre, Welwyn Garden City, Herts) as a young medicinal chemist in the ...
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Business
Business roundup: January 2010
Bayer to reduce cost of chlorine production German chemicals giant Bayer is commercialising a new way of making chlorine that it says uses 30 per cent less energy than current production methods. Better still, the company plans to make it possible to retrofit the technology to existing plants. Around ...