Chemistry podcasts – Page 18
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PodcastMercury fulminate, Hg(CNO)2
Michael Freemantle examines the explosive history and chemistry of mercury fulminate
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PodcastZirconium tungstate
Generally, things get bigger as they get hotter. Neil Withers examines one of the exceptions – zirconium tungstate
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PodcastChemistry World podcast – November 2015
This month we meet chemisty Nobel winner, Thomas Lindahl, and we learn how bio-markers might be used to determine the time of death
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PodcastScientific Babel by Michael Gordin – Book club
We probe the nature of scientific language with Michael Gordin’s bestseller, Scientific Babel
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PodcastGuncotton or nitrocellulose
From an apron aflame to a popular propellant, Michael Freemantle tracks the history of guncotton
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PodcastThiamine or vitamin B
Brian Clegg introduces an essential nutrient, and the first to hold the name ‘vitamin’: Thiamine or vitamin B
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PodcastChemistry World podcast – October 2015
This month, we chart a course through chemical space and discover the potential problems of cleaning up Sellafield
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PodcastCephalosporins
A story which starts knee-deep in sewage and ends with the spread of drug resistant infections like MRSA
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PodcastA is for Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup – Book club
In the first of a brand new podcast series, we get together to discuss ‘A is for Arsenic: the poisons of Agatha Christie’
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PodcastXenon hexafluoroplatinate
Hayley Birch discovers the compound that opened up a wing of the periodic table for reactions: Xenon hexafluoroplatinate
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PodcastSodium azide
Raychelle Burks finds out how Potbelly’s patrons became poisoning patients, in the mystery of the sodium azide-laced iced tea
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PodcastMethyl salicylate
In this week’s podcast, Raychelle Burks tells us of the cool but warming effects of methyl salicylate, better known as oil of wintergreen.
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PodcastAntimony sulfide
It’s at the heart of the first chemical equation, and makes Hayley Birch think of quiche. This week’s compound is antimony sulfide
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PodcastChemistry World podcast – September 2015
In this months podcast, we discuss Ebola and malaria vaccines in the pipeline, the history of peer review, and managing the mountain of chemical data
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Podcast2,4-Dinitrophenol
Simon Cotton explains the explosive history and the dangers to health of 2,4-dinitrophenol