All Last retort articles – Page 7

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Festive fuels

2014-11-27T00:00:00Z

Combustive chemistry to light up the holiday season
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Fool's gold

2014-10-30T00:00:00Z

Metal coatings can be useful for protection – or disguise
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On the bubble

2014-10-02T00:00:00Z

Avoiding a golden syrup disaster at 30,000 feet
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Hanging on to helium

2014-08-21T00:00:00Z

Coping with our dwindling supplies of a gas that disappears into space
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Time for tea

2014-07-25T00:00:00Z

Finding a formula for the perfect brew
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What did the Romans do for us?

2014-06-26T00:00:00Z

Today’s researchers owe much to the chemists of civilisations past
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It belongs to the people

2014-05-30T00:00:00Z

How Marie Curie’s desire to share her science for the common good priced her out of the game
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Fire with no spark

2014-04-24T00:00:00Z

Spontaneous combustion still leaves chemists scratching their heads
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How to survive a nuclear bomb

2014-04-03T00:00:00Z

Flash, blast and radiation – is it possible to live through a catastrophe?
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Impatient chemistry

2014-02-28T00:00:00Z

Is the pressure to publish making chemists cut corners?
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Base for a boy

2014-01-24T00:00:00Z

The theory was sound, but litmus-inspired baby clothes just didn’t catch on
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Mpemba's mystery

2013-12-19T00:00:00Z

Hot water sometimes freezes faster than cold. The reason still isn’t entirely clear
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Cosmic Chemistry

2013-11-28T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the island of stability lives among the stars instead of at the bottom of the periodic table
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Explosive mixtures

2013-10-24T00:00:00Z

Nobel’s name was made in explosives, but what about the chemistry behind them?
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The great chemistry cookoff

2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Is the comparison between chemistry and cooking really an insult?
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Up the carbon path

2013-08-30T00:00:00Z

The unique properties of element six mean it has a variety of uses
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The elemental treasure hunt

2013-07-26T00:00:00Z

Taking a look behind the periodic table at the stories of discovery
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A transparent problem?

2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

As glassblowing declines, chemistry cannot fail to be affected
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Flying: heavier or lighter than air?

2013-05-23T00:00:00Z

Hydrogen balloons have fallen out of favour, except in chemistry demonstrations
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Oh what a surprise!

2013-04-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes great chemistry results from unexpected findings