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Opinion
Letters: February 2009
From Carl Djerassi In your December editorial (Chemistry World, December 2008, p2), you claim that it is rare for chemistry and its ideas to star in fiction, and rarer still to find a story with a character who is a real-life scientist. Perhaps you are too busy editing a journal ...
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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