Thursday, March 27, 2014

Discovery of Oxygen

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This tweet has been making the rounds today. RT @greatbritain : UK discovered more elements in periodic table than any other country pic.twi...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Surprising Article about Californium Chemistry

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I just saw an interesting article from the RSC at Chemistry World based on this article in Nature Chemistry about the chemistry of calif...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

Astatine: Halogen or Metal? Part 3: Electronic Structure Calculations

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For "Part 1: Background" click here . For "Part 2: Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Chemistry" click here . In th...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Astatine: Halogen or Metal? Part 2: Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Chemistry

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Click here for part 1, "Astatine: Halogen or Metal? Part 1: Background." Note to readers: To date I have attempted to keep my p...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Astatine: Halogen or Metal? Part 1: Background

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While teaching a recent general chemistry class I was asked whether astatine should be considered a halogen. I realized that throughout my ...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Chemistry Book Review: The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

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Primo Levi. From Wikipedia A few years back an event organized by the Royal Institute of London named Primo Levi's The Periodic Table ...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Professional Custom Narcotics: Real Life Breaking Bad

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There was a fascinating recent article in Medium entitled The drug revolution that no one can stop . Although rather long, the piece is a ...