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Explainer: Why is mixing cleaning chemicals such a bad idea?
WEBApr 23, 2020 — Accidental poisonings in the US have risen dramatically during the Covid-19 lockdown. They are up 20% in the first three months of 2020 compared with last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There were 45,550 calls related to exposure to disinfectant and cleaning agents, almost two-thirds of the …
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The 2021 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
WEBOct 6, 2021 — 10.42am No wait they’re running late! The announcement isn’t going to be made for another 10 minutes. These delays tend to be because the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cannot get in touch with one or more of the new chemistry laureates!
Ordering the elements | Feature | Chemistry World
WEBAmong the most active in this search were the Germans Leopold Gmelin and Max Pettenkofer, the Frenchman Jean Baptiste Dumas, and England’s William Odling and John Hall Gladstone.They all made some progress, but none produced a fully satisfactory system. All of them were handicapped by continuing uncertainty about the atomic …
The father of the periodic table | Feature | Chemistry World
WEBJan 2, 2019 — In 1905 London’s Royal Society honoured Mendeleev with its Copley medal, having already received its Davy medal in 1882. In 1906 he was nominated for the Nobel prize, but although the chemistry panel supported his candidature the awards committee ruled that his discovery was not recent enough to qualify him for consideration.
What is an element? | Feature | Chemistry World
WEBJan 10, 2019 — As chemical concepts go, you don’t get much more fundamental than the element. It’s one of the first ideas that the chemistry student encounters, often in the iconic tabulation of these basic ingredients of nature that Dmitri Mendeleev first described 150 years ago and which is being celebrated this year.
Hydrothermal vents and the origins of life - Chemistry World
WEBApr 16, 2017 — The question ‘How did life begin?’ is closely linked to the question ‘Where did life begin?’ Most experts agree over ‘when’: 3.8–4 billion years ago.
What it takes to make a new element | Feature | Chemistry World
WEBNov 30, 2016 — Oganessian’s lab is in Dubna, two hours’ drive north of Moscow. To get there means driving down a single-lane highway that cuts straight through a sea of pine forest, past a T-34 tank that marks where the Germans …
Erlenmeyer flask | Opinion | Chemistry World
WEBJun 30, 2008 — When Kekulé moved to Ghent, Erlenmeyer succeeded him as the editor of his Zeitschrift der Chemie .This plunged him into hotly-contested theoretical debates about chemistry, in which he sided against Kolbe and Berzelius, and with Kekulé, Williamson and Russian chemist Butlerov, who argued that connectivity lay at the heart of organic …