All Organic chemistry articles – Page 14

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    Exhibition chemistry

    The dehydration of sucrose

    2007-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Create a smoking column of carbon

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    Phenols in medicine

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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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    Exhibition chemistry

    Making ethyne | demonstration

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Preparing ethyne and testing its properties

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    Exhibition chemistry

    Fluorescence

    2006-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Demonstrations designed to capture the student's imagination

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    Pain relief: from coal tar to paracetamol

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Analgesics, ie pain-relieving drugs, fall into two categories: those that also reduce body temperature in fevers (antipyretics), and those that act mainly on the brain - typically morphine and diamorphine/heroin. Here we consider members of the first group, particularly those once designated 'coal tar analgesics'. Paracetamol, our most popular over-the-counter pain killer, is one of these.   

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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'