All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 183
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Podcast
January 2009
Chemistry World Podcast - January 200900:12 -- Introduction01:58 -- Chemists take control of robo-moths 04:27 -- Did meteorite strikes seed life on earth?07:18 -- Fraser Stoddart discusses the impact of Richard Feynman's famous 'Plenty of room at the bottom' talk, fifty years on 13:54 ...
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News
How to strengthen the taste of umami
Molecular synergy between flavour enhancers may hold lesson for drug designers
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News
Web chemistry progresses InChI by InChI
Collaboration provides tools to help chemists tag their own compounds online
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Business
Business roundup: January 2009
EU slams pharma delaying tactics Pharmaceutical manufacturers have been criticised by the EU competition commission for slowing the entry of generic medicines to the market. It says that such practices cost EU taxpayers €3 billion between 2000 and 2007. The accusations come in a preliminary report on the Commission’s inquiry ...
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News
Note book: January 2009
India’s basic research fund Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced a new independent agency will be set up to fund the country’s basic science and engineering research. The National Science and Engineering Research Board will begin funding operations from 1 April 2009, and is expected to control a ...
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Careers
The Educated Chemist: High pressure research
Ned Stafford visits a German research centre focused on using high pressure to develop materials which are harder, but cheaper, than diamonds
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Opinion
The utility of oxidation states
Oxidation state is a convenient fiction, but the concept is far from meaningless, writes Philip Ball
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Opinion'Perkin's' triangle
The vacuum distillation apparatus invented by Leonard Temple Thorne, but with Perkin's name on it