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Business
Business roundup: October 2006
Ivory Coast’s toxic disaster Source: © REUTERS Waste material Waste material - known as slops - unloaded by a ship in the Ivory Coast city port of Abidjan has led to the deaths of seven people, widespread sickness, and dismissal of the entire government. Ships ...
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Germany puts OLEDs under the spotlight
Multi-million-Euro initiative to turn Germany into an OLED global powerhouse.
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Solar cells reach into the infrared
Innovative dye increases the amount of sunlight that can be harvested by solar panels
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Bacteria silenced by conversation stoppers
Molecules that interrupt the chemical communication of bacterial communities show antibiotic promise.
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Iron chelator offers sun burn relief
A sun cream that mops up sun-generated free iron in the skin could heal sun burn and help prevent skin cancer.
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Copper mines and coordination chemistry
Extracting pure copper metal from low-grade metal ores will benefit from the latest coordination chemistry research.
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Contamination from food packaging 'ignored'
Chemist calls for rigorous investigation of leached compounds
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Opinion
Letters: September 2006
From Basil Walby As a statistician, former editor of The Analyst, and now a grumpy old man, I was disappointed to see that RSC Publishing is promoting spurious precision in its advertisement in Chemistry World (July 2006, p47). Impact factors are notoriously variable, making the quotation to ...
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Business
Business roundup: September 2006
Alaskan oilfield in hot water Crude oil prices suffered a roller coaster ride in August alongside a drama unfolding at BP’s Alaskan oilfield, the largest in North America. Attention has focused on the oil company since March, when up to 270,000 gallons of crude leaked from its transit line in ...
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Opinion
Letters: August 2006
From Norman Nicolson The excellent article on serendipity missed one important event (Chemistry World, June 2006, p32). A chemist working for ICI wondered what used could be made of the blue sludge that had to be cleaned out of the bottom of the phthalimide reactor. This was made of ...