All Chemistry World articles in October 2019
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Podcast
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe – Book club
We discuss xkcd comic creator Randall Munroe’s new book that deals out absurd – but scientifically accurate – advice for everyday problems
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Review
How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Have you ever considered the practicalities of building a swimming pool out of cheese?
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Opinion
Letters: October 2019
Your thoughts on correct terminology and what it means to be a scientist
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Careers
Structuring a crystallographic database
Matt Lightfoot on navigating a career around the Cambridge Structural Database
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Opinion
Donna Blackmond: ‘I often get my best ideas in the middle of the night’
The chirality expert on late-night notes and Harrius Potter
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Opinion
Reaching out for chemistry careers
The role of outreach in increasing chemistry degree enrolment
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Opinion
A rice kind of fingerprint powder
A new method for producing print powders goes against the grain
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Feature
Chromium: Lust for colour
Van Gogh’s yellow sunflowers owe a debt to Louis Vaquelin, the chemist who discovered the element chromium
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Puzzle
On the spot: Pocketful of trouble
What would you do if you found a mystery substance in your lab coat pocket?
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Puzzle
October 2019 puzzles
Download the puzzles from the October 2019 print issue of Chemistry World
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Feature
Atom-by-atom experiments at the edge of the periodic table
Only a few atoms of oganesson have ever been made – and they all vanished in less time than it took you to read this