All articles by David Jones – Page 3

Opinion

Strike a light

2010-11-30T08:38:00Z

Strike a light

Opinion

Glass

2010-10-28T13:07:00Z

Glass is amazing stuff

Opinion

Elemental

2010-09-28T12:07:00Z

The old alchemical elements were ancient Greek: earth, air, fire and water

Opinion

A dramatic experiment

2010-05-27T10:51:00Z

I once conducted a dramatic experiment for a BBC TV programme on chemistry

Opinion

A fiddle and a fraud

2010-01-28T15:07:00Z

Chemistry, I fear, started as a fiddle and a fraud

Opinion

Heavy drinking

2009-10-01T14:39:00Z

Alcohol makes us lose balance, but heavy water has the opposite effect. Could a 'heavy' gin and tonic get us drunk but keep us upright?

Opinion

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

2009-05-29T18:02:00Z

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde star in the famous story by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Opinion

The first electric incandescent-filament lamp

2009-01-28T10:47:00Z

The old carbon-filament electric lamp was essentially a fine graphite filament in a vacuum

Opinion

Making holes in the opposition

2009-01-08T12:42:00Z

In traditional warfare, you try to make holes in the opposition

Opinion

Electrochemistry

2008-10-29T10:06:00Z

Electrochemistry has revolutionised the chemical art

Opinion

Silly putty

2008-07-31T08:55:00Z

When the magazine New Scientist was started in 1958, each reviewer also got a little brown sample of 'silly putty'

Opinion

Conscious chemical systems

2008-02-27T08:52:00Z

How can an atomic system (like you or me) be conscious?

Opinion

Being a chemist is not bad for your health

2007-11-28T15:17:00Z

In every issue of RSC News, I look at the 'deaths' column

Opinion

Flashback

2007-08-28T14:22:55Z

20 years ago in Chemistry in Britain