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Past issue

By Dave Sammut and Chantelle Craig

From 18th-century engineering to modern illicit drug profiling, the trials and tribulations of expert witnesses are fundamentally similar.

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Chemistry underfoot

By Nanthi Bolan and Michael Crawford

The significance of soils to sustainable agricultural production is enormous, explain two members of the new CRC for High Performance Soils.

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Build your own lava lamp

By Jeremy Just
Although this isn’t quite the same as a lava lamp that you buy, it is a very exciting and visually spectacular experiment. It is very safe, using...

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Great balls of fire

By Ian D. Rae
The obituary for Jack Norman Gregory (1920–80), written by Dal Swaine and published in Chemistry in Australia, omitted the most interesting of...

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