All articles by Andrea Sella – Page 11

  • Periodic table of the elements – 83 – Bismuth
    Podcast

    Bismuth

    2010-03-31T00:00:00Z

    The story of a heavy metal that could make spoons vanish in a hot cup of Victorian tea

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Vernier scale

    2010-02-26T10:39:00Z

    Sooner or later, it is the fate of every scholar to be accused of pedantry

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Petri dish

    2010-01-28T13:34:00Z

    When I was about 16, I came across a peculiar novel in my father's study

  • Periodic table of the elements – 58 – Cerium
    Podcast

    Cerium

    2010-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Andrea Sella tells the story of an element that sparks up lighters, vanishes burns, and helps to clean up the fumes from cars and trucks

  • CLASSIC-KIT-210
    Opinion

    Hofmann's voltammeter

    2010-01-06T11:06:00Z

    As a child, I remember wondering how far one could count

  • CLASSIC-KIT-250
    Opinion

    Keck clip

    2009-11-26T11:33:00Z

    Sooner or later, everyone has to grow up

  • Periodic table of the elements – 68 – Erbium
    Podcast

    Erbium

    2009-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Andrea Sella tells the story of Robert Bunsen and the element erbium

  • Ernst Büchner (right) with his father Wilhelm, Pfungstadt, Germany, c. 1865
    Opinion

    Büchners Funnel

    2009-10-28T09:35:00Z

    Laboratories are noisy places. Stop and listen.

  • CLASSIC-KIT-Gadolin-200
    Opinion

    Gadolins's condenser

    2009-10-01T13:34:00Z

    Chemistry is often compared to cookery, and the pages of a typical cookbook read like the pages of the wonderful compendia Organic- and Inorganic Syntheses

  • Periodic table of the elements – 31 – Gallium
    Podcast

    Gallium

    2009-09-23T00:00:00Z

    An element used in solar powered cars and in space probes

  • CLASSIC-KIT-Liebig_200
    Opinion

    Liebig's Kaliapparat

    2009-08-25T15:14:00Z

    Justus von Liebig (1803–1873) was a German chemist, co-discoverer of isomerism, father of agricultural chemistry and revolutionised chemical analysis

  • CLASSIC-KIT-Thiele-250
    Opinion

    Thiele tube

    2009-07-28T14:07:00Z

    Johannes Thiele - the Prussian inventor of a temperature-stable convection heating tube for melting point analysis

  • Periodic table of the elements – 53 – Iodine
    Podcast

    Iodine

    2009-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Andrea Sella's Italian odyssey to Iodine 

  • CLASSIC-KIT-310
    Opinion

    Mary's bath

    2009-06-29T10:22:00Z

    Approximately 2nd century AD. One of the earliest alchemists, inventor of the 'bain marie', the kerotakis apparatus and the tribikos still

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Ostwald's viscometer

    2009-05-29T16:47:00Z

    One man who took little on trust was Wilhelm Ostwald. Born in Riga, Latvia, he studied chemistry at the University of Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia).

  • CLASSIC-KIT-180
    Opinion

    Gaede's diffusion pump

    2009-04-28T09:50:00Z

    A new generation of faster, stronger and more reliable vacuum pumps

  • Periodic table of the elements – 60 – Neodymium
    Podcast

    Neodymium

    2009-04-08T00:00:00Z

    One of a pair of elementary twins that now turns up in toys, lasers and powerful magnets

  • CLASSIC-KIT-250
    Opinion

    Carius tube

    2009-03-30T10:51:00Z

    The Carius tube - still the workhorse of digestion reactions

  • Periodic table of the elements – 28 – Nickel
    Podcast

    Nickel

    2009-03-18T00:00:00Z

    How Kupfernickel inspired Nickel, with Andrea Sella

  • CLASSIC-KIT-250.
    Opinion

    Hirsch's funnel

    2009-02-23T11:44:00Z

    Separating crystals is a cinch using a Hirsch funnel, but it was not always thus