All articles by Chemistry World – Page 55
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News
Airborne pesticides need surveillance
Airborne pesticides must be taken much more seriously when assessing risks of pesticide use, caution environmental chemists.
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Opinion
Letters: May 2005
From Brian Shelley I was very interested to read Philip Ball’s Ten most beautiful experiments in chemistry (Chemistry World, April 2005, p32). I agree that they all have elements of beauty in them. However I would like to suggest an addition to the list: the discovery of the element promethium. ...
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Opinion
Flashback April 2005
April - 75 years ago, 90 years ago, 95 years ago, 100 years ago, 105 years ago
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Managing the multi-million megawatts
Energy consumption is a key challenge for BASF. The company is working to manage its own energy use and to develop energy saving products, reports Bea Perks
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High stakes in the instrument market
Vikki Allen looks at the ways both global and small analytical instrument companies get a new product to the market
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Opinion
Letters: March 2005
Five years ago, at the Royal Institution launch of Simon Garfield’s book on Perkin’s ’Mauve’, the author told me that he thought Perkin’s grave was no longer at Harrow. I was surprised at that because I had visited it sporadically for over 30 years - partly to see that it ...
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UN advisor calls for investment in science
Developing countries will never see improvements in human welfare or economic stability without scientific and technological innovation
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Trading on the Turnpike
The concentration of pharmaceutical companies in New Jersey, US, enables easy collaboration, writes Bea Perks
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Opinion
Letters: April 2005
I wanted to mention that there is an error in the Chemistry World article, Record breakers about the world’s smallest test tube (December 2004, p7). In the initial press release we errantly listed the volume of our test tube as 10-24 litres, or a yoctolitre. In reality, it is 10-21 ...
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A provincial scientist
Throughout his prolific career in chemistry, Paul Sabatier remained faithful to his roots in provincial France. Mary Jo Nye introduces us to the Nobel laureate and investigates the chemistry that made him such an important figure in organic chemistry
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A volcanic breath of life?
An erupting volcano is both majestic and terrifying, but now research suggests that these geological wonders might have played a significant part in the evolution of life on Earth. Tamsin Mather invites us to peer into the crater and take a closer look
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New ligand on the block
UK scientists have found an alternative to the cyclopentadienyl (Cp) ligand, historically the dominating anion in olefin polymerisation catalysis.
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Opinion
Letters: December 2004
From Alberto Nunez Selles, president, Cuban Chemical Society My sincere congratulations for your article Biotechnology: the 2nd Cuban revolution (Chemistry World, November, 2004, p38) giving an objective picture of present bioscience and chemistry R&D in Cuba. Just for historical reasons, I wish to call your attention to a pitfall in ...
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Digging up evidence of metal pollution
Katharine Sanderson finds out how the truth about human influence on the environment has been dug up from the depths of a peat bog.
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Recovering after the bubble burst
German biotech euphoria and stock market boom have been replaced by disillusionment and insolvencies, but a clear-out of the market has begun, writes Holger Bengs.
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Opinion
Letters: October 2004
From Steve Jeffery Readers intrigued by Katharine Sanderson’s review of Carl Djerassi’s play Calculus (Chemistry World, September 2004, p64) and the rivalry between Newton and Leibniz might also be interested in author Neal Stephenson’s hugely ambitious and entertaining alternate history, the three volume Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The confusion, and System ...