All Feature articles – Page 30

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    The fight against food adulteration

    2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Today's quality control of the food and drinks industry is thanks to pioneering work started in the 19th century

  • shiny metal
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    Salty solvents – ionic really

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Ionic compounds are usually high melting point solids. But mix together a powdered organic salt with aluminium chloride and the result is a clear, colourless, 'ionic liquid'

  • Cartoon of a virtual laboratory
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    Skeletal chemistry

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    What is the minimal core of an education in chemistry? What should someone with a passing need to understand a bit of chemistry know of our subject? And what, if heaven were on our side, should the cultivated 'man in the street' know about chemistry?

  • image - making ice cream - start
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    Making ice cream - it's physical chemistry

    2003-07-01T00:00:00Z

    An understanding of the physical chemistry of ice cream is the route to a smooth, soft, creamy dessert

  • Figure 1 - Wood's apparatus
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    The beginnings of Mössbauer spectroscopy

    2002-07-01T00:00:00Z

    In 1958 Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer, aged 29, published the results of an experiment which gave rise to the branch of spectroscopy which now bears his name.