Chemistry podcasts – Page 12
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PodcastAluminium chloride
Brian Clegg becomes a sleuth to investigate the uses of a deceptively simple Lewis acid
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PodcastChemistry by Weike Wang – Book club
First-time novelist Weike Wang takes us inside the mind of a Chinese American PhD student in Boston
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PodcastTetranitromethane
Brian Clegg introduces a failed rocket fuel oxidiser with a very tricky structure
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PodcastPolybutene
Kit Chapman discovers the compound that blighted Nixon’s second presidential inauguration by littering the route with dead pigeons
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PodcastThe Angry Chef by Anthony Warner – Book club
Do you crave a bigger slice of science in your dietary advice? Anthony Warner gets angry about bad science in the food sector
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PodcastAflatoxins
Kat Arney investigates the cancer-causing chemicals that could be lurking in that bag of peanuts
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PodcastA Crack in Creation by Jennifer Doudna – Book club
The development of Crispr, and the ethical questions raised by new genome editing techniques
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PodcastCinnarizine (stugeron)
Neil Withers relives a choppy (and messy) sea voyage to bring us the science of anti-seasickness drug cinnarizine
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PodcastSodium dichromate
Discover the compound at the heart of a multi-million dollar legal case and an Oscar–winning role for Julia Roberts
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PodcastPhosphorus chlorides
A hugely useful group of compounds that have a distinct dual personality
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PodcastA Course in Deception by Jane Rieger – Book club
Academia has everything from altering results to murder, at least in this work of fiction
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Podcasttert-Butyl lithium or t-BuLi
A pyrophoric reagent that remains one of chemistry’s staples and the liquid salts that can tame its wild reactivity
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PodcastChlorine trifluoride
Tabitha Watson introduces a poisonous, corrosive and extremely reactive compound that will start ‘roaring reactions’ with almost anything
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