All Columns articles – Page 78
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The science of scents is not simple
The flowery language of fragrance chemistry doesn't distract Philip Ball from the sharp scent of olfactory understanding
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Cutting-edge technology for cutting-edge results?
How important is it to have the best equipped lab, wonders Derek Lowe
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Making holes in the opposition
In traditional warfare, you try to make holes in the opposition
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Letters: January 2009
By the time I read your feature on whisky (Chemistry World, December 2008, p40) the magazine’s packaging had been binned. So I could not sample the whisky miniature that must have accompanied this excellent article. CW is, after all, the official organ of a professional body still associated with ...
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Opinion'Perkin's' triangle
The vacuum distillation apparatus invented by Leonard Temple Thorne, but with Perkin's name on it
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The utility of oxidation states
Oxidation state is a convenient fiction, but the concept is far from meaningless, writes Philip Ball
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Following instructions
Anyone who has any laboratory teaching experience can tell you how difficult it can be to get students to follow instructions