All Culture and people articles – Page 212
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Review
How enzymes work
With today's biochemists gradually drifting further from their chemical roots, Frey and Hegeman's heroic tome on enzyme mechanisms is very welcome
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Review
Dirac and beyond
I suppose it was always inevitable that this book would start with the quote from Dirac about the completeness of quantum theory
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Review
Biodiversity for chemists
At first glance it may seem odd that the Royal Society of Chemistry has brought out a book on biodiversity
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OpinionSchlenk apparatus
Wilhelm Johann Schlenk, the German chemist who prepared some of the first organosodium and organolithium compounds, and developed the inert-atmosphere techniques now common in many labs
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Careers
Bacteria and bioenergy
Multitasking professor Bruce Logan says environmental engineering may help save the planet. Susan Aldridge meets him
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Opinion
Ethanol reigns supreme in laboratory and cocktail glass alike
Dylan Stiles is full of spirit
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Review
Kitchen Science
How to fossilise your hamster: and other amazing experiments for the armchair scientist
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Review
One of Chemistry's greatest
As well as a chemist who discovered oxygen, Priestley was a theologian and reformer
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Opinion
Beckmann thermometer
There was a time, long ago, that few of us remember, when you couldn't just head down to the basement and get a quick NMR or mass spectrum of your latest compound