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Chemistry World

 

November 2003


No 11

One thing leads to another

At the hands of Ernst Beckmann, two major chemical developments came from isolating some very simple compounds.


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Going with the flow

Two medical doctors have won this year's chemistry Nobel prize, while a chemist and a physicist have won the medicine prize.


Cold comfort

Want some relief for a cold? A hot spicy curry might be as good as anything, the experts tell Victoria Ashton.


Dynamite cure

Nitric oxide may have been used to treat angina in China since about 800 AD, says Anthony Butler.


Signatures of time

Richard Corfield explains how stable isotopes are helping to pinpoint geologic time.