Chemistry podcasts – Page 15
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PodcastBook Club – Grunt: the curious science of humans at war
The non-weapon technologies of war, from penis transplants to maggot therapy
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PodcastBook Club – Herding Hemingway’s Cats
Six-toed cats and misconceptions in genetics are discussed in this months podcast
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PodcastPicric acid
A yellow dress, of the type worn by Jane Austen, sets Michael Freemantle exploring the chemistry of picric acid
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PodcastSpilanthol
It’s the active molecule in the plant known as electric daisies or the toothache plant but it might also make your skin smoother
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PodcastThiomersal
Kat Arney introduces the organomercury preservative associated with the current controversy around vaccines
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PodcastAmmonium carbonate
Ever taken a whiff of smelling salts? For many years, the compound that contributed the pungent pong was ammonium carbonate
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PodcastBook Club – Sorting the beef from the bull
This month we discuss the ubiquitous nature of food fraud and its detection
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PodcastAsafoetida
With a name that literally means rotten resin, asafoetida is a surprising food additive and deodorant
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PodcastMethyl isocyanate
The 1984 accident at Bhopal, India, was the worst in the history of industrial chemistry. It involved a leak of methyl isocyanate
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PodcastShikimic acid
Kat Arney introduces a biologically ubiquitous compound, important in beating both infectious viruses and invasive weeds
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PodcastTetraethyl lead
For decades, automobile fuel had a dangerous additive: Tetraethyl lead. Matt Gunther explains why a toxic compound was added to our fuel