All Columns articles – Page 81

  • Opinion

    Letters: January 2009

    2009-01-08T12:42:00Z

    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 ...

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2009-01-08T10:28:14Z

    AstraZeneca's Jon-Paul Sherlock returns the exchange

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2009-01-08T10:14:10Z

    Chemists give advice for bridging the divide between chemistry and engineering

  • Opinion

    Column: Undercover Academic

    2009-01-08T10:14:09Z

    Postdoc to PI expectations

  • Opinion

    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2009-01-08T10:14:07Z

    Quinocarcin

  • CLASSIC-KIT-190
    Opinion

    'Perkin's' triangle

    2009-01-08T10:14:00Z

    The vacuum distillation apparatus invented by Leonard Temple Thorne, but with Perkin's name on it

  • Opinion

    The utility of oxidation states

    2009-01-08T10:14:00Z

    Oxidation state is a convenient fiction, but the concept is far from meaningless, writes Philip Ball

  • Opinion

    Throwing it over the wall

    2009-01-08T10:14:00Z

    Derek Lowe discusses the age-old tradition of passing the buck

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Chemical cousins

    2009-01-08T10:13:00Z

    The relationship between chemistry and chemical engineering

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2008-11-27T12:43:42Z

    The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) outlines the opportunities for chemists offered by its new delivery plan

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2008-11-27T11:18:48Z

    20 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Opinion

    Following instructions

    2008-11-27T11:18:00Z

    Anyone who has any laboratory teaching experience can tell you how difficult it can be to get students to follow instructions

  • Opinion

    Letters: December 2008

    2008-11-27T11:18:00Z

    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. ...

  • Opinion

    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2008-11-27T08:55:46Z

    Pseudolaric acid B

  • Opinion

    Column: Undercover Academic

    2008-11-27T08:55:46Z

    'Twas the night before lectures.

  • Rudolf Signer (1903-1990)
    Opinion

    Signer's Osmometer

    2008-11-27T08:55:00Z

    Signer's elegant apparatus for measuring molecular weights in solution

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Chemistry in literature

    2008-11-27T08:55:00Z

    Does literature snub the central science?

  • Opinion

    Casimir concord

    2008-11-27T08:55:00Z

    Philip Ball uncovers a pleasing symmetry surrounding the mysterious Casimir force

  • Opinion

    Back where we began

    2008-11-27T08:55:00Z

    Derek Lowe ponders the likelihood of arriving where he started

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2008-10-29T10:06:33Z

    40 years ago in Chemistry in Britain