Chemistry podcasts – Page 18

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    Chemistry World podcast – October 2015

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    This month, we chart a course through chemical space and discover the potential problems of cleaning up Sellafield

  • Vials of cephalosporin
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    Cephalosporins

    2015-10-15T00:00:00Z

    A story which starts knee-deep in sewage and ends with the spread of drug resistant infections like MRSA

  • War poster about lewisite
    Podcast

    Lewisite

    2015-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Wouldn’t it be great to have a molecule named after you? But perhaps not this week’s compound, the chemical weapon lewisite

  • A is for arsenic
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    A is for Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup – Book club

    2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

    In the first of a brand new podcast series, we get together to discuss ‘A is for Arsenic: the poisons of Agatha Christie’

  • Argonne National Laboratory
    Podcast

    Xenon hexafluoroplatinate

    2015-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Hayley Birch discovers the compound that opened up a wing of the periodic table for reactions: Xenon hexafluoroplatinate

  • Iced tea
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    Sodium azide

    2015-09-23T00:00:00Z

    Raychelle Burks finds out how Potbelly’s patrons became poisoning patients, in the mystery of the sodium azide-laced iced tea

  • Gelsemium sempervirens flowers
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    Gelsemine

    2015-09-21T00:00:00Z

    In this week’s podcast, Matt Gunther reveals the toxic history of gelsemine

  • Wintergreen plant
    Podcast

    Methyl salicylate

    2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

    In this week’s podcast, Raychelle Burks tells us of the cool but warming effects of methyl salicylate, better known as oil of wintergreen.

  • A very old edition of Tyrocinium Chymicum
    Podcast

    Antimony sulfide

    2015-09-02T00:00:00Z

    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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    Chemistry World podcast – September 2015

    2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

    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

  • The mountains on the Blue Ridge Parkway
    Podcast

    Isoprene

    2015-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Why do the Blue Ridged Mountains inspire so many songs? Maybe it’s because of the Isoprene that gives them their blue hue…

  • Someone kneading dough
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    Gluten

    2015-08-19T00:00:00Z

    Emilie Steinmark tells us about gluten and gluten intolerance

  • 2,4 dinitrophenol powder
    Podcast

    2,4-Dinitrophenol

    2015-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton explains the explosive history and the dangers to health of 2,4-dinitrophenol

  • Vanadium oxide powder
    Podcast

    Vanadium Oxides

    2015-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Brian Clegg introduces an exotic chemical dynasty: the Vanadium oxides

  • comet
    Podcast

    Chemistry World podcast – August 2015

    2015-08-01T00:00:00Z

    In this space special, we learn how to study comets surfaces, and speak to a Nobel Prize winner about his 20-year-old prediction proving to be correct

  • Skydivers
    Podcast

    Adrenaline

    2015-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton on the compound that turns a shrinking violet into a hero: Adrenaline

  • Silly putty
    Podcast

    Polydimethylsiloxane

    2015-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Brian Clegg tells us about a silicone gel, which can sometimes be a bit silly

  • Carminic acid
    Podcast

    Carminic acid

    2015-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Raychelle Burks introduces a red dye with a prickly history

  • Lemons
    Podcast

    Citric acid

    2015-07-08T00:00:00Z

    If life hands you lemons, make lemonade – or you could make citric acid, a very useful commodity chemical according to Andrew Turley

  • graphene
    Podcast

    Chemistry World podcast – July 2015

    2015-07-01T00:00:00Z

    We ask, does graphene live up to the hype, and discuss injectable electronics that unfold in the brain