All articles by Chemistry World – Page 52
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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.
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Opinion
Letters: October 2005
From Bill George In his article entitled Claiming Einstein for chemistry (Chemistry World, September 2005, p38) Philip Ball admits to talking ’somewhat with tongue in cheek’. The claimed contribution of special relativity in 1905 to chemistry as practised and generally understood is tenuous. Ball is misleading by crediting Einstein ...
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22 September 2005: Nutritionists shake up the functional foods debate
A leading nutritionist has questioned the wisdom of a chemical company's plans to develop milkshakes tailored to an individual's nutritional requirements.
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14 September 2005: Eye-catching alchemy preparing to go on tour
An alchemical art collection is set to tour the US and Europe with help from the Chemical Heritage foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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9 September 2005: Powerful promise for grass that's as high as an elephant's eye
So-called elephant grass could be the long-promised biomass fuel tipped to solve the world's energy problems, according to researchers in the US and Ireland.
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Microfluidic biosensor detects pathogens
A reusable microfluidic biosensor has been developed by scientists in the US.