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Alexandrite Effect: Not All White Light is Created Equal 23 Aug 2013 | 07:35 am
Alexandrite is a gem that exhibits an amazing property. It appears red in incandescent light and green in sunlight. Incandescent light and sunlight both appear white when we look at them but, as Alexa...
Happy Berzelius Day 20 Aug 2013 | 01:01 pm
Today, August 20th, marks the birthday of Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779–1848). I decided to write this post because, frankly, I knew nothing about Berzelius. He seems to be something of ...
Writing an Online Organic Chemistry Quiz 19 Aug 2013 | 11:24 pm
Lately, I’ve been very interested in using my university’s Learning Management System (we use Moodle, others use Blackboard or something else) to administer quizzes to my students, but as an organic c...
Alleged Data Manipulation in Nano Letters and ACS Nano from the Pease group 13 Aug 2013 | 07:56 pm
A recent paper from Rajasekhar Anumolu and Leonard F. Pease in Nano Letters entitled, “Chopstick Nanorods: Tuning the Angle between Pairs with High Yield“, had a collection of very interesting TEM ima...
Five most memorable chemistry papers 9 Aug 2013 | 06:17 pm
Ash over at The Curious Wavefunction has asked for our five most memorable chemistry papers. Here’s mine. 1) A Specific, Highly Active Malate Dehydrogenase by Redesign of a Lactate Dehydrogenase Fra....
When is a Proton not a Proton? 8 Aug 2013 | 04:15 pm
A recent article in Accounts of Chemical research discusses this very topic as well as some other interesting facts revolving around protons, their structure and their generation. What does H+ signify...
When Authors Forget to Fake an Elemental Analysis 8 Aug 2013 | 02:20 am
As first posted by ChemBark, a recent paper in Organometallics by Professor Reto Dorta at the University of Zurich is catching the ire of the online chemical community today [ , ] for a quick throaway...
#ChemSummer Carnival – Glow Sticks: How Do They Work? 30 Jul 2013 | 11:47 pm
Via Kenneth Freeman Read other entries in the How Does it Work? series! Everybody loves summer. And as the sun starts to set, and the fireflies twinkle, and bedtimes are some ancient school-day memo...
User Timelines in Twitter API v1.1 25 Jul 2013 | 01:30 am
As some people may have noticed, the Chem Twitterverse box has been broken for the past two weeks while Twitter migrated from v1.0 of their API to v1.1. It took some serious rejiggering but I finally ...
In defence of DHMO 16 Jul 2013 | 02:23 pm
Chemophobia and the use of satire such as the old DHMO joke, to tackle it seems to be the topic of the week. I’m guessing (and maybe I’m flattering myself) that my ironic piece in the Guardian, in res...
