All Last retort articles – Page 10
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The musical spectrometer
O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound The Tempest, William Shakespeare
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The first electric incandescent-filament lamp
The old carbon-filament electric lamp was essentially a fine graphite filament in a vacuum
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Making holes in the opposition
In traditional warfare, you try to make holes in the opposition
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Following instructions
Anyone who has any laboratory teaching experience can tell you how difficult it can be to get students to follow instructions
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Starting early
My first memory of being taught chemistry is being told to learn the names of all the elements, in order.
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Silly putty
When the magazine New Scientist was started in 1958, each reviewer also got a little brown sample of 'silly putty'
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Life-changing chemistry
Which chemist's work has touched the most lives? Marie Curie? Louis Pasteur? Joseph Lister?
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Lost in translation
From time to time I translate public relations documents on progress in science and technology
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Being a chemist is not bad for your health
In every issue of RSC News, I look at the 'deaths' column