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Opinion
Letters: February 2011
With the climate change problem increasing by the day, the apparent lack of urgency exemplified by the European Union’s renewable energy programme (Chemistry World, December 2010, p8), with the ’first allocations of funding in the second half of 2012’ is surely disturbing. The longer we delay, the more the ’catch-up’ ...
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OpinionElevating enzymes
Enzymes have been giving chemists inferiority complexes since day one, says Derek Lowe. But there's no denying their potential
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OpinionCraig's rotary evaporator
Years ago, a non-chemist friend of mine visiting my lab asked me what a rotavap was for
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Opinion
Letters: January 2011
I was delighted to see the glass industry under examination in The last retort (Chemistry World, November 2010, p78). However, I was surprised at David Jones’ lack of understanding of materials’ properties and the current state-of-the-art in the glass industry. Glass is actually a relatively good thermal insulator; an ...
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Opinion
Editorial: The International Year of Chemistry
Happy new year! And a very special one as in 2011 we will be celebrating the International Year of Chemistry
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Opinion
Collaboration or opportunism?
Dutch Nobel laureate Peter Debye has been branded a Nazi collaborator, but Philip Ball suggests that the historical facts permit several interpretations
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OpinionFluorine fanatics
Some medicinal chemists can't get enough fluorines in their molecules. Derek Lowe explains the love-hate relationship
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Opinion
Letters: December 2010
I was interested to read Harry Kroto’s account of graphite losing its lubricating properties in a vacuum (Chemistry World, November 2010, p37). When I was working for Morganite Carbon in the early 1960s I saw a demonstration of an electric motor running inside a bell jar. When pressure was ...