All Culture and people articles – Page 208
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Review
Scuppering the sceptics
The author of this work is unusual in that he is best known for a hoax he perpetrated on an unsuspecting journal in the spring of 1996
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Review
Cleaning up chemical warfare
This book will be a valuable resource to anyone interested in biological and chemical warfare agents (B/C weapons)
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Review
Sandwich compounds
It is over 50 years ago that ferrocene, the first metallocene, was discovered
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Review
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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Review
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
The 299 ways to convert alcohol to aldehyde
Dylan Stiles touches on the many ways to convert an alcohol to an aldehyde or ketone
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Review
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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Review
A revised organic classic
Well-established introductory organic chemistry textbook for undergraduates
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Review
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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Review
Materials with a broad brush
This book attempts to address all aspects of the very broad discipline of materials chemistry
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Review
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