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OpinionDrechsel's bottle
Western travellers to the East fuelled a fashion for Orientalism which reached its height in the 19th century
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OpinionKjeldahl flask
Beer has made an immense contribution to humanity generally and to chemists in particular
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Opinion
Letters: April 2008
From Jeremy Tomkinson, Adrian Higson and Geraint Evans We found the article ’Flawed policies encourage damaging biofuels’ (Chemistry World, February 2008, p6) to be disappointingly unbalanced. The provocative titles used for the piece do little to stimulate a reasoned and scientific debate in this immensely complex subject. The RSC has ...
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Opinion
Letters: March 2008
From Martin Humphrey A group of scientists in New Zealand recently announced that they had genetically modified onions in such a way as to eliminate the lachrymator. Having spent many years studying the chemistry of this phenomenon, I would like to assure them that they will also have removed the ...
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Opinion
A dose of realism
The recent row over antidepressants reminds us how little we know about the brain, says Derek Lowe
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Explosive inspiration
Peter Wothers describes the lure of the large-scale chemistry experiment
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Editorial: Responsible nanotechnology
In the field of nanotechnology, the devil is in the detail.