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Business
Business roundup: January 2006
Explosion at UK oil terminal Reports of an explosion that tore through an oil storage terminal jointly owned by Total and Texaco could be overlooking significant health risks, says a leading combustion engineer. There were 36 reported casualties, only two of which were serious, and no reported deaths following the ...
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Opinion
Letters: December 2005
From Graham Hills How many chemistry departments do we need? How long is a piece of string? If you ask a simplistic question you must expect a simplistic answer. All that your correspondents are able to offer are patched-up versions of the status quo (Chemistry World, October 2005, p11). More ...
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Business
Business roundup: December 2005
European parliament approves Reach The European parliament has secured backing for the long-awaited regulatory regime for Europe’s chemicals industry: registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals (Reach). Reach was today approved in Strasbourg after a marathon vote on 1038 amendments. It was first published by the European Commission ...
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Business
Business roundup: November 2005
BASF: Asian shift won’t slow European growth Katharine Sanderson/ Ludwigshafen, Germany German chemicals giant BASF has announced plans to focus on expansion in Europe until 2015, and aims to double eastern European sales by 2010. The announcement came just days after the official opening of BASF’s ...
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Electrochemical information storage
An electrochemically activated write-read-erase system, gated by magnetic nanoparticles, adds a new dimension to information storage.
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Studying the nutrients in food
Researchers in Thailand have developed a method for estimating the bioavailability of several essential elements at once from a continuous in vitro digestion system.
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Opinion
Letters: January 2006
From Barry Knight Richard Biddulph asks whether there is a procedure for neutralising acid inks using zinc diethyl (Chemistry World, November 2005, p32). The Library of Congress, Washington DC, US, did indeed carry out lengthy experiments on deacidifying books with diethyl zinc (DEZ) in the 1980s. However, DEZ reacts violently ...
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A leap forward for chemical genetics
Frogs can now be used as model organisms for chemical genetic screens.