All articles by Andrea Sella – Page 9

  • Review

    Another periodic romp

    2011-03-30T08:44:21Z

    Periodic tales: the curious lives of the elements

  • CLASSIC-KIT-150
    Opinion

    Pardy apparatus

    2011-03-29T15:02:00Z

    Martin Luther Kings great 1963 speech calling for racial equality and an end to discrimination

  • CLASSIC-KIT-400
    Opinion

    Warburg's manometer

    2011-02-24T10:45:00Z

    It is probably fair to say that for all its crucial importance to the smooth running of society, accountancy seldom generates great excitement or wide acclaim

  • CLASSIC-KIT-225
    Opinion

    Craig's rotary evaporator

    2011-01-31T09:18:00Z

    Years ago, a non-chemist friend of mine visiting my lab asked me what a rotavap was for

  • CLASSIC-KIT-225
    Opinion

    Töpler pump

    2011-01-05T11:03:00Z

    Too many arm curls

  • A row of asthma inhalers
    Podcast

    Salbutamol

    2011-01-05T00:00:00Z

     Andrea Sella introduces an asthmatic's elixir with an athletic avenue for abuse

  • SF6 gas tank on the floor
    Podcast

    Sulfur hexafluoride

    2010-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Andrea Sella explains the history of this potent greenhouse gas

  • Hand drawing chemical structures with chalk
    Podcast

    Silver fulminate and cyanate

    2010-12-01T00:00:00Z

     Andrea Sella reveals the history behind the symbol of the chemist - the stick diagram

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Gouy's tube

    2010-11-29T12:55:00Z

    How many physical scientists can really dance?

  • Review

    Blogosphere

    2010-10-28T11:16:31Z

    The Open Laboratory 2009. The best of science writing on blogs

  • Opinion

    Bridgman's seal

    2010-10-28T10:14:00Z

    The most reductive of literary critics are wont to say that there are only seven kinds of stories

  • CLASSIC-KIT-250
    Opinion

    Saussure's cyanometer

    2010-09-28T10:41:00Z

    In 1959, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis assembled his ideal sextet

  • CLASSIC-KIT-gooch-200
    Opinion

    Gooch's crucible

    2010-08-27T11:40:00Z

    Many years ago, a friend of mine teased me about how I, as a chemist, would probably die young of some dread occupational disease

  • CLASSIC-KIT-180
    Opinion

    Haldane's blood gas analyser

    2010-07-30T09:30:00Z

    Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who steered Ivory Coast to independence in 1959, was known as the Sage of Africa

  • CLASSIC-KIT-morton-200
    Opinion

    Morton flask

    2010-06-25T11:34:00Z

    Baldassarre Castiglione wrote that the perfect gentleman should 'affect in all things sprezzatura' - artful effortlessness

  • CLASSIC-KIT-300
    Opinion

    Dean-Stark apparatus

    2010-05-27T09:53:00Z

    If there is any single substance that unites pretty much all chemists, it has to be water

  • Opinion

    Allihn condenser

    2010-04-28T09:29:00Z

    One seldom sees grown-ups in public blowing bubbles

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Pasteur pipette

    2010-03-31T08:05:00Z

    Courage is not a trait that one always associates with scientists

  • 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