In focus – Page 27
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The Mole
Soap: can you make it with body fat and is there an explosive spin-off?
On screen chemistry with Jonathan Hare
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Avoiding the travel bug
Vaccination is our best defence against catching numerous infectious diseases while travelling abroad
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Smart energy homes
In Europe, homes and businesses use more energy than any other sector, including transport
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Frog defence against AIDS?
Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives.
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The Mole
Acid lakes: do they exist and would they dissolve a boat?
On screen chemistry with Jonathan Hare
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Dealing with nuclear waste
Nuclear power is a low-carbon technology, but it does come with a catch: it produces waste that emits harmful radiation for many thousands, even millions of years. UK chemists, however, are working to produce materials and technology to deal with this problem.
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Flu drugs - pathway to discovery
If bird flu ever starts to transmit from human to human, with no effective vaccine available our only defence will be the antiviral drugs Relenza and Tamiflu
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Mendeleev - the man and his legacy...
A look at the life and work of Russia's most famous chemist, who died 100 years ago
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The periodic tables of Mendeleev
How Mendeleev corrected the atomic weights of In, Ce and U, and thus constructed the remarkable Periodic Table of 1871
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A day in the life of a development chemist: Morven McAlpine
Morven McAlpine has spent the past two years working for ICI Imagedata as a development chemist. She talks to James Berressem about her typical day
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Moseley landmark
Royal Society of Chemistry recognises importance of x-ray studies done by Henry Moseley at Oxford University site
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Hydrogen peroxide
Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives.
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Phenols in medicine
Phenol encountered in school or college chemistry laboratories demands special respect on account of its toxic and corrosive nature. But phenol and its derivatives do have a few medicinal surprises
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CO2 - a solution in sight?
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are higher today than they have been at any time in the past 150,000 years
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Like father, like son
Stanford University's Roger Kornberg has followed in his father's footsteps by winning the 2006 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for unravelling the process by which RNA is transcribed from DNA to make proteins