All Columns articles – Page 69
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OpinionGooch's crucible
Many years ago, a friend of mine teased me about how I, as a chemist, would probably die young of some dread occupational disease
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OpinionHaldane's blood gas analyser
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who steered Ivory Coast to independence in 1959, was known as the Sage of Africa
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Sulfur or sulphur?
Sulfur or sulphur? The controversy over the spelling of element number 16 rumbles on
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Letters: August 2010
I was interested to read Philip Ball’s piece on the automated future of chemical crystallography, based on work at St Andrew’s University, Scotland, UK, to develop an entirely automatic diffractometer capable of ’flexible thinking’ designed to mimic the thought process of a crystallographer (Chemistry World, June 2010, p34). While this ...
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Missing methods
Derek Lowe reminisces about lost laboratory techniques and wonders which will be next to go
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Cadmium colourants and 'Shrekgate'
Philip Ball looks at the chemistry behind colourful cartoon characters served up by a fast food chain
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Oinking and squawking
There's been lot of oinking and squawking over recent scares about swine flu and bird flu
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Letters: July 2010
Like Pickard (Chemistry World, May 2010, p40), I am disappointed that the BBC did not find a chemist to present Chemistry: a volatile history, but I am not amazed that a physicist, Jim Al-Khalili, ’made an excellent job of it’. After all, chemistry is a physical science. The Royal Society ...
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Serving both music and chemistry
Borodin wasn't such an outstanding scientist after all, says Philip Ball, but science and music are far from mutually exclusive
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OpinionMorton flask
Baldassarre Castiglione wrote that the perfect gentleman should 'affect in all things sprezzatura' - artful effortlessness