All Columns articles – Page 64
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Opinion
Editorial: Sustainable Energy for All
Switching on the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
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Opinion
Letters: January 2012
Why is Chemistry World so shy about showing the language of chemistry on its pages? We do after all possess, along with music, one of the most efficient notations ever invented. So, in the latest edition I was very interested to see an article on marine adhesives (Chemistry World, Dec ...
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Opinion
Rewards of repurposing
Derek Lowe discusses how companies are increasingly trying to do more with the compounds they already know a lot about
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OpinionDragmacidin D
Why do we make functional groups? That might come across as the dumbest question of the year, but there’s actually a point behind it. The majority of functional groups present in the synthetic intermediates in a synthesis don’t make it to the target - they are consumed, ...
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Opinion
An explosive release of gas
An explosion is the sudden release of gas, creating a sonic report
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Opinion
Letters: December 2011
Metals and metalloid elements in the environment have a major impact on human, animal and plant life as seen in the recent Hungarian red mud catastrophe. Some elements like calcium, iron, zinc etc serve as essential nutrients without which life fails to thrive, whereas lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, antimony and ...
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Opinion
Sightly scientific environments
Philip Ball admires the artistry of contemporary science buildings and a few old masters too
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