Category: 6. Chemistry

At this year’s ChemUK exhibition in Birmingham, UK, I attended a session on process safety, hosted by members of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers’ safety and reliability group. The presentations focused on engineering aspects of…

Volunteering to stay Chemsafe

I was interested to read the article about the chemical support for emergency responders.

It reminded me of similar support provided by the chemical industry in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s. At that time the…

Strain amplifies tetravalent carbon atoms’ ability to donate electrons, facilitating various non-covalent interactions, quantum chemical calculations show. ‘Usually when a carbon atom is in a tetrahedral bonding situation, which is the most…

A collection of scientific papers written by the codebreaker Alan Turing are to be sold at auction later this month, where they are expected fetch tens of thousands of pounds.

The collection of offprints include Turing’s personal signed copy of…

Plant specimen collection

This study used fresh pomegranate fruits purchased from a local market in Zabol, Iran. Following careful cleaning, the peels were carefully separated and sliced into small pieces. In order to keep the quality of the…