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OpinionThiele tube
Johannes Thiele - the Prussian inventor of a temperature-stable convection heating tube for melting point analysis
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OpinionLyconadin A
Having spent a few years working in the pharmaceutical industry, one thing I’ve learnt is that Alzheimer’s disease isn’t an easy nut to crack. Any opening into its prevention or treatment is understandably leapt upon, especially natural products such as the Lycopodium family that show activity against ...
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Opinion
Editorial: Impact factors
Every year at the beginning of the summer, the ISI journal impact factors (IFs) are announced
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OpinionMary's bath
Approximately 2nd century AD. One of the earliest alchemists, inventor of the 'bain marie', the kerotakis apparatus and the tribikos still
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Opinion
Polyhedra of the past
Today polyhedra speak to chemists of fullerenes and other cage molecules. But they once had a very different meaning, says Philip Ball
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Opinion
Formulation chemist friction
Derek Lowe wonders where we'd be without the formulation chemists
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Opinion
Editorial: Event season
Chemistry World staff hard at work attending and reporting on as many events and conferences as humanly possible
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Opinion
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde star in the famous story by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Letters: June 2009
I read with great interest the article by Hayley Birch entitled The artificial leaf (Chemistry World, May 2009, p42). It was pleasing to see that the x-ray structure of Photosystem II (PSII) was shown as a key figure in the article. This structure was determined by myself and colleagues ...
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Editorial: Publishing feels the squeeze
The latest sector to feel the recession is the world of publishing and journalism.