All Culture and people articles – Page 194
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Materials with a broad brush
This book attempts to address all aspects of the very broad discipline of materials chemistry
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Its all about orbitals
This is a readable and engaging introduction to chemistry at a fairly demanding first year undergraduate level
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Assessing Risks
This book is a clear and well-written introduction to chemical toxicology and risk assessment
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Organic helping hand
This workbook accompanies Wyatt and Warren's supremely useful and practical text Organic Synthesis
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Reaction mechanisms
Reading this book has taken me back 50 years to the lectures we had from Peter Sykes on organic reaction mechanisms
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On the three laws
Readers might suspect that doing chemical thermodynamics at a glance is rather like tossing back a fine cognac in a gulp
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A paradox's coming of age
Considering the major advances in the exciting area of biological inorganic chemistry that the last decade has seen
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Magnetism updated
Magnetic properties of compounds and phases feature in undergraduate science courses in part because of their current technological importance
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Careers
Profile: Safety first
Andy Fowler's experience at the bench and in the factory helps chemists keep their work safe, reports Susan Aldridge
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OpinionErlenmeyer flask
George Bernard Shaw once described Britain and America as being 'two countries divided by a common language
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Supercharged
In a long and illustrious career, Nobel Laureate George Olah, director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, US, has made many seminal contributions to chemistry
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Fruit of the sun
Pierre Laszlo taught chemistry at Princeton and Cornell in the US, the University of Liege, Belgium, and the Ecole Polytechnique, near Paris
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Much ado about nothing
Although most chemists would agree that, in its essence, chemistry is all about chemical reactions