Letters from Chemistry World readers – Page 8
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Hard day's night
Chemists' working habits seem to have little regard for office hours. Should we resist the trend toward working longer?
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Martin Fleischmann (1927–2012)
A colleague recalls the achievements and personality of the electrochemist at the centre of the cold fusion debacle
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Remediate with carbonate
An option for destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons seems to have been overlooked
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Fracking lacking concerns
Fracking coverage must acknowledge the potential environmental impact
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The unusual suspects
There are more elements in pharma than are dreamt of in Derek Lowe’s philosophy
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Truth about science
Poor quality research and a lack of scientific rigour are more harmful to science than misconduct
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Letters: May 2012
The article ’Making Light Work’ (Chemistry World, April 2012, p52) coincided with an alarming Daily Telegraph article relating the near-catastrophic increase in antibiotic resistance due to misuse by the NHS and in agriculture. It seems that big pharma is no longer interested in infection control for two reasons: Any ...
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Grant clarity
Applicants do not help their proposals by the apparently careless way in which they sometimes present their applications
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Letters: April 2012
As an affiliate member of the Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC’s) peer review college, I would like to comment on the article about NERC’s intention to reduce the number of uncompetitive proposals submitted for funding (Chemistry World, March 2012, p17). For several years, I have helped in ...
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Letters: March 2012
The article ’Silver soils’ (Chemistry World, February 2012, p36) highlights some interesting recent events relating to the environmental impact of silver residues. While a wealth of evidence exists to show that silver ions are toxic to lower organisms, there is less evidence that nanocrystalline or other forms of silver present ...
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Letters: February 2012
In his comment article, David Fox (Chemistry World, January 2012, p42) highlights the importance of having access to a well-curated repository of small molecules for drug discovery (and chemical genomics), but he feels that it is important to ’combine a well-validated target with a means of intervention that minimises attrition ...
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Letters: January 2012
Why is Chemistry World so shy about showing the language of chemistry on its pages? We do after all possess, along with music, one of the most efficient notations ever invented. So, in the latest edition I was very interested to see an article on marine adhesives (Chemistry World, Dec ...
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Letters: December 2011
Metals and metalloid elements in the environment have a major impact on human, animal and plant life as seen in the recent Hungarian red mud catastrophe. Some elements like calcium, iron, zinc etc serve as essential nutrients without which life fails to thrive, whereas lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, antimony and ...