All articles by Andrea Sella – Page 9

Opinion
Van de Graaff generator

2011-09-29T13:41:00Z

Transport systems can be great unifiers and bringers of development
Opinion
McLeod's Vacuum Guage

2011-08-26T14:02:00Z

The simmering tensions between science and religion
Opinion
Griffin's beaker

2011-07-28T15:08:00Z

What's in a name?
Podcast
Ammonium nitrate

2011-07-27T00:00:00Z

This week's compound is causing a boom
Opinion
The Evans balance

2011-06-30T09:50:00Z

Easy to use and robust, the Evans or JM balance has been on the market in various forms since 1974
Opinion
Volta's piles

2011-05-31T11:40:00Z

Lightning is one of the great metaphors for the creative process
Opinion
Hershberg's stirrer

2011-04-28T09:09:00Z

A deceptively simple stirrer
Review
Another periodic romp

2011-03-30T08:44:21Z

Periodic tales: the curious lives of the elements
Opinion
Pardy apparatus

2011-03-29T15:02:00Z

Martin Luther Kings great 1963 speech calling for racial equality and an end to discrimination
Opinion
Warburg's manometer

2011-02-24T10:45:00Z

It is probably fair to say that for all its crucial importance to the smooth running of society, accountancy seldom generates great excitement or wide acclaim
Opinion
Craig's rotary evaporator

2011-01-31T09:18:00Z

Years ago, a non-chemist friend of mine visiting my lab asked me what a rotavap was for
Opinion
Töpler pump

2011-01-05T11:03:00Z

Too many arm curls
Podcast
Salbutamol

2011-01-05T00:00:00Z

Andrea Sella introduces an asthmatic's elixir with an athletic avenue for abuse
Podcast
Sulfur hexafluoride

2010-12-15T00:00:00Z

Andrea Sella explains the history of this potent greenhouse gas
Podcast
Silver fulminate and cyanate

2010-12-01T00:00:00Z

Andrea Sella reveals the history behind the symbol of the chemist - the stick diagram
Opinion
Gouy's tube

2010-11-29T12:55:00Z

How many physical scientists can really dance?
Review
Blogosphere

2010-10-28T11:16:31Z

The Open Laboratory 2009. The best of science writing on blogs
Opinion
Bridgman's seal

2010-10-28T10:14:00Z

The most reductive of literary critics are wont to say that there are only seven kinds of stories
Opinion
Saussure's cyanometer

2010-09-28T10:41:00Z

In 1959, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis assembled his ideal sextet
Opinion
Gooch's crucible

2010-08-27T11:40:00Z

Many years ago, a friend of mine teased me about how I, as a chemist, would probably die young of some dread occupational disease