Inorganic chemistry – Page 20
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Podcast
YBCO - Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide
Neil Withers recalls making this groundbreaking superconductor as a student
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Podcast
Magnesium sulfate
Brian Clegg explains how bath salts may actually be more than just relaxing
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Review
Inorganic electrochemistry: theory, practice and application (2nd edn)
Inorganic redox processes
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Research
Fluorine finally found in nature
Mystery of nasty niff from ‘fetid fluorite’ minerals is solved - it’s all down to the fluorine it releases
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News
Oxo wall still stands as inorganic papers retracted
Curtain falls on controversy over creation of metal-oxo complexes as authors publish new work refuting their previous claims
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News
Flerovium and Livermorium take seats at the periodic table
Names for elements 114 and 116 ratified by Iupac
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Plutonium in a spin
Japanese and US researchers have solved the decades-old problem of plutonium-239’s NMR spectrum
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Silicene grown for (probably) the first time
Scientists present the most compelling evidence yet for a one atom-thick sheet of silicon
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News
Double whammy blow to US nuclear science
Los Alamos National Lab’s budget will be cut by 11% and an actinide chemistry facility postponed
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Feature
Glenn Seaborg: plutonium and beyond
Mike Sutton reports on Glenn Seaborg's adventures among the actinides
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Feature
Quasicrystals scoop prize
The 2011 Nobel laureate in chemistry, Daniel Shechtman, fought hard to win acceptance of his discovery: quasicrystals. Laura Howes tells how perseverance led to the ultimate recognition
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Podcast
Nitrogen triiodide
Brian Clegg introduces a compound that detonates at the touch of a feather
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Feature
The enduring image
In the commercial battle between digital and analogue photography, physics eventually prevailed. Here, Mike Ware reveals how chemistry shaped the history of photographic images
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