All Culture and people articles – Page 203
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Chemistry for the masses
How do you portray a science that now owes (perhaps) as much to Bill Gates as to Bunsen?
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Photosciences of the human skin
Sun-worshipping comes with serious acute and chronic risks to the skin
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FeatureRebuilding Africa with science
As the RSC launches the first African hub of its Pan Africa Chemistry Network, Victoria Gill finds out how science can provide real solutions for the continent
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Careers
Profile: Fellowships on the brain
A series of fellowships in the UK and Germany have given Birgit Liss scientific independence in her research on the brain's dopamine system, writes Ned Stafford
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Opinion
Column: Bench monkey
Dylan Stiles touches on the 299 ways to convert an alcohol to an aldehyde or ketone
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Speeding up the chemistry in our lives
This is one of those timely books that does not leave you empty-handed
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A revised organic classic
Well-established introductory organic chemistry textbook for undergraduates
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From down under
This is a single-volume chemistry book developed for first-year chemistry courses in Australia and New Zealand
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Materials with a broad brush
This book attempts to address all aspects of the very broad discipline of materials chemistry
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Its all about orbitals
This is a readable and engaging introduction to chemistry at a fairly demanding first year undergraduate level
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Assessing Risks
This book is a clear and well-written introduction to chemical toxicology and risk assessment
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Organic helping hand
This workbook accompanies Wyatt and Warren's supremely useful and practical text Organic Synthesis
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Reaction mechanisms
Reading this book has taken me back 50 years to the lectures we had from Peter Sykes on organic reaction mechanisms
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On the three laws
Readers might suspect that doing chemical thermodynamics at a glance is rather like tossing back a fine cognac in a gulp
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A paradox's coming of age
Considering the major advances in the exciting area of biological inorganic chemistry that the last decade has seen