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Opinion
Letters: January 2009
By the time I read your feature on whisky (Chemistry World, December 2008, p40) the magazine’s packaging had been binned. So I could not sample the whisky miniature that must have accompanied this excellent article. CW is, after all, the official organ of a professional body still associated with ...
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Opinion'Perkin's' triangle
The vacuum distillation apparatus invented by Leonard Temple Thorne, but with Perkin's name on it
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Opinion
The utility of oxidation states
Oxidation state is a convenient fiction, but the concept is far from meaningless, writes Philip Ball
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Opinion
Following instructions
Anyone who has any laboratory teaching experience can tell you how difficult it can be to get students to follow instructions
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Opinion
Letters: December 2008
There is a great deal of interest in the dissolution of cellulose in ionic liquids at the moment (Chemistry World, November 2008, p24). It is a commonly held view that this is new science, and the use of imidazolium based ionic liquids for this purpose is certainly new. ...
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Casimir concord
Philip Ball uncovers a pleasing symmetry surrounding the mysterious Casimir force