All articles by Hayley Bennett
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FeatureWhat are you swimming in?
Swimming pool disinfection is essential for public health but carries some risks of its own
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Toiletries and cosmetics: what’s on the label?
What do all those terms on the ingredients list mean?
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Camping’s chemical elements
Top tips from the chemistry lab for roughing it well when camping
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Polymer chemistry is printing noses
Learn more about a novel application of polymer chemistry to help reconstruct the faces of skin cancer patients
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The race for fast-charging cars
Learn how chemists are redesigning batteries to create new, fast-charging options for the future electric cars
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Battle of the hand sanitisers
Are quaternary ammonium compounds just as good at killing Covid-19 as alcohols?
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Your place or mine? The local business of lithium mining
Lithium-ion batteries will power the next generation of electric cars, but how can we mine lithium with minimal impact on the environment?
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Concrete solutions to sustainable materials
Enhance your teaching of materials and explore how new types of concrete could reduce carbon emissions
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Coronavirus: should we be sanitising our shopping?
Chemists are busily working out how long Covid-19 remains viable on various surfaces – here’s what we know so far
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Poo sticks … and how to stop it
How science is saving water and time spent cleaning the loo
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Magnificent molecules
Sulfur hexafluoride
A gas widely used in electrical devices with 23,500 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide
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Magnificent molecules
Hydrochloric acid
The science behind one of the most commonly used laboratory acids
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Magnificent molecules
Ethanoic acid
Hayley Bennett reveals the science behind everyone’s favourite household acid
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