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Chemistry: Covered. The latest news, research, features and opinion from across the chemical sciences. Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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    Jul 28, 2024
    A team at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s 88-inch cyclotron have shown a titanium-50 beam works to make a superheavy element, using it to produce two atoms of livermorium (element 116) by firing into a plutonium target for 22 days.
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    Element 120 may now be in reach and the hunt for it could begin ...
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    Jul 26, 2019
    We’re all familiar with a 2D periodic table, but could a 3D version tell us more about the relationship between elements? chemistryworld.com/opinion/machin…
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    Aug 11, 2024
    A research team surrounding Alex Ivanov and Santanu Roy from the @ORNL has conducted neutron scattering and computational experiments on uranium trichloride at 298K and 1173K to compare its structure in the solid and molten states.
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    Uranium trichloride exhibits transient covalency when hot
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    Apr 21, 2021
    ‘If he wasn’t there, I would have to ask someone to do those things for me, which would take away my independence’ – Joey Ramp explains how @sampson_dog helped her get back into the lab after she suffered a brain injury and extensive nerve damage
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    One researcher’s fight to open labs to service dogs
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    Apr 21, 2021
    ‘She was told people with service animals can’t work in labs’ – Researcher Joey Ramp and service dog Sampson are fighting to make lab work more accessible to disabled scientists
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    One researcher’s fight to open labs to service dogs
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    Oct 3, 2018
    Frances Arnold is the fifth woman to win the chemistry #NobelPrize – she spoke to us a few months ago about her love of walking, travel, and learning from nature #ChemNobel
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    Frances Arnold: 'I wanted to become an engineer of the biological ...
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    Jan 2, 2019
    2019 marks the International Year of the Periodic Table, #IYPT2019! We'll be celebrating by periodically publishing periodic table posts. First, Mike Sutton looks back at the man who organised the elements into the table we know today.
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    The father of the periodic table
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    Nov 16, 2018
    The end is nigh for the kilogram as we know it
    International prototype of the kilogram
    Why the kilogram is changing forever
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    Mar 6, 2019
    150 years ago today, Dmitri Mendeleev first presented his periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society. We look back on #Mendeleev’s life and how he came to make his famous discovery #IYPT2019 #OTD
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    The father of the periodic table
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    Jul 8, 2019
    You've probably heard of C–H⋯O bonds...but have you heard of June Sutor? She did some pioneering work on these crucial interactions, but has been almost forgotten. Until now.
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    The forgotten female crystallographer who discovered C–H⋯O bonds
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    Oct 9, 2019
    And the 2019 #chemnobel #Nobelprize goes to... John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino “for the development of lithium-ion batteries.” Follow our live blog:
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    Live blog: lithium-ion batteries take the 2019 chemistry Nobel prize
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    Jun 3, 2017
    A Spanish university has decorated its chemistry department building with a giant periodic table chemistryworld.com/3007512.article
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    Jan 7, 2021
    Researchers have created the first stable compound featuring a planar – rather than tetrahedral – tetracoordinated silicon atom chemistryworld.com/news/first-fla…
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    Jul 24, 2020
    Any advice for Ginny, who found these ~100 year old vials that belonged to her chemistry teacher grandfather? There's chloroform, aniline, acetonitrile, nitrobenzene, chlorobenzene & more... (@SellaTheChemist - this may be up your street!)