The Royal Australian Chemical Institute's magazine for and about the chemical science professions
The Royal Australian Chemical Institute's magazine for and about the chemical science professions
A century and a half ago, a set of symbols, carefully arranged in rows and columns, was published. The 'collection’ was incomplete and the gaps hinted at undiscovered relatives.
Where does the periodic table of elements end? Is there a final element, or are ever-increasing atomic numbers possible?
Researchers have extracted the molecules that power the majestic glowworm displays in New Zealand’s Waitomo Caves.
Professor John Moses, chemist at the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science at La Trobe University, walks to the corner of his lab and opens the lid on a large bucket of brown seeds. ‘We paid $10 a kilo for this lot of Voacanga africana’, he tells me. ‘We first bought them on eBay and now we source them from a farm in Ghana.’
Some time after I published a technical paper on the measurement of copper in wine in 1983, I was called by a winemaker who wished to discuss the...
Historic inorganic pigments are still used by painters, alongside the products of the modern chemical industry. The colours are mostly due to the...
In the past I have reported on the quality of fuel in Australia and the potential for unregulated chemicals to enter the fuel market to the...
This chemistry is not exactly fun – you will need to apply some serious concentration, but only a relatively small dose! About 600 years ago, a...
In his last, posthumously published, book Stephen Hawking wrote that the public doesn’t believe experts. As examples, he cited the Brexit...
Many students find chemistry difficult to learn because they need to think at three different levels: the macroscopic (what we can sense), the...
Limited resources of lithium mean that lithium-based batteries will not be able to meet increasing energy-storage demands. Consequently, the...
Radical chemistry has greatly affected polymer science, allowing an increasingly large diversity of polymers to be made robustly and reliably....
The glycopeptide antibiotics (GPAs, including vancomycin and teicoplanin) are highly cross-linked heptapeptide antibiotics that are assembled in...
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