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The musical spectrometer
O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound The Tempest, William Shakespeare
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Letters: March 2009
I recently delivered an address at a presentation evening at a local school where I was introduced to the audience as an organic chemist. At the reception which followed, I was approached by a parent who congratulated me heartily on my lifestyle choice of being ’organic’ and I was asked ...
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Making use of molecular motions
Thermal motions on the molecular scale are not just useless noise, discovers Philip Ball
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A new wave of consolidation
Derek Lowe worries that mergers are upsetting the balance of the pharmaceutical ecosystem
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OpinionHirsch's funnel
Separating crystals is a cinch using a Hirsch funnel, but it was not always thus
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Editorial: Economic science
As the recession bites deeper, what could be in store for academe?
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The first electric incandescent-filament lamp
The old carbon-filament electric lamp was essentially a fine graphite filament in a vacuum
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Letters: February 2009
From Carl Djerassi In your December editorial (Chemistry World, December 2008, p2), you claim that it is rare for chemistry and its ideas to star in fiction, and rarer still to find a story with a character who is a real-life scientist. Perhaps you are too busy editing a journal ...
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The science of scents is not simple
The flowery language of fragrance chemistry doesn't distract Philip Ball from the sharp scent of olfactory understanding
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Cutting-edge technology for cutting-edge results?
How important is it to have the best equipped lab, wonders Derek Lowe
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Making holes in the opposition
In traditional warfare, you try to make holes in the opposition