All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 44
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News
Fuel cell poisoning halted by CO oxidising catalyst
A gold catalyst that can be used in power-generating fuel cells has been prepared
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News
Catalyst recycling on tape
Chemists in Germany have demonstrated that certain classes of catalyst can be efficiently and simply recovered from and released into reaction mixtures by using cheap, commercially available Teflon tape.
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News
1 July 2005: Drop in ocean pH confirmed
The average pH of the oceans will fall by up to 0.5 units by 2100 if global emissions of carbon dioxide continue to rise at present rates.
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Opinion
Bologna and the European higher education area
The Bologna process began in 1999 with the aim of setting up a European higher education area by 2010. Terry Mitchell looks at what still needs to be done
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Feature
Medicine gets personalised
Matching patients to treatments by screening their genetic makeup is the goal of some drugs companies. Andrew Scott explores the political, economic and scientific issues
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News
1 July 2005: Minding the nanogaps aboard a molecular circuit
Fully-functioning molecular circuits could be a step closer thanks to a new nanofabrication technique.
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Review
Arsenic poisoning then and now
Venomous earth: how arsenic caused the world's worst mass poisoning
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Review
Probing electronic structure
Electronic and photoelectron spectroscopy: fundamentals and case studies
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Opinion
Letters: July 2005
I am in complete agreement with the views expressed by Huw Pritchard in his letter (Chemistry World, June 2005, p31). In my first chemistry lesson in 1961 the master was talking about the action of metals on water. He illustrated his talk by dropping pieces of sodium ...
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Feature
Law-abiding industries
A chemist made some startling predictions 40 years ago that have driven the semiconductor and electronics industries ever since. Katharine Sanderson met Gordon Moore
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Feature
Reaping rewards from discoveries
Patents can protect your invention, generate income and be a mine of information for research. Bob Pidgeon explains the process and its advantages