Chemjobber
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Visiting chemical plants
Seeing how other chemists do their work can be an eye-opening experience, in more ways than one
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Cleaning up chemical kitchens
In a busy plant, ensuring small changes don’t produce unforeseen toxic impurities is key
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Fluorine: the T rex of the periodic table
Pass out the nickel superalloy reactor kit, it’s time to tame that most reactive of elements
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Beyond buckets and batches
Embracing flow chemistry means leaving behind some faithful friends
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Crystal clear
The dark craft of crystallisation is an essential skill when working on kilogram scale
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In search of solvation
Process chemistry opens up a whole new world when it comes to solvent choice
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Still boiling after all these years
If you’ve got the facilities, distillation can be a powerful plant technique
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Crossing the boundaries
Getting reagents across interfaces requires help from phase-transfer catalysts – but transferring information is harder
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Dead in the water
A healthy sense of hydrophobia is a useful trait in the plant, says Chemjobber
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Foaming at the reactor mouth
Turning a 1000 gallon reactor into a giant bubble bath is far from soothing, says Chemjobber
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Scrubbing up
Acid vapours are problematic on scales at which they corrode cars and cause acid rain, says Chemjobber
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Catching the runaways
Exotherms in a plant require more than ice to avoid disaster, says Chemjobber
