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Jun 8
2 min

A tragic tofu tale?

By Amen Seo Whether you love it or hate it (like my partner's mum who silently shifted all the tofu pieces to the side of her plate the f...

Jun 8
2 min

The Wonderful World of Fluorescence

There is a whole big, wide, world of fluorescence out there in nature - from quinine, harvested from the bark of the South American cinch...

Apr 15
5 min

How the Covid virus propelled Germanium into the limelight

Cometh the hour, cometh the metal. Like rhenium, a mere particle in its host ores and concentrates, the quantity of germanium atoms can a...

Jan 10
2 min

Chlor-Alkali Process

By Ross Milverton The chlor-alkali process, as complicated as it sounds, is simply the separation of the chlorine and sodium atoms found w...

Jan 10
2 min

Iridium

By Ross Milverton Iridium was first discovered in 1803 by Smithson Tennant, when he was dissolving a sample of platinum in strong acid an...

Jul 29, 2019
1 min

What are the problems with nitrogen oxides in car emissions?

By Loveday Hedgcock Nitrous Oxide (N₂O) is used in hospitals as laughing gas so why are people so worried about Nitrogen oxide emissions ...

Apr 4, 2017
5 min

From Ancient Oaks to Turbine Blades – it’s a Material World

About 20 years ago I was on the phone to Ken Harris of Cannon Muskegon, who was at that time Vice President, Director of Technology, at t...

Sep 20, 2016
3 min

How the addition of Gold led to a new harder Titanium alloy with potential for use in implants

By Harry Sherwood A few months ago, my brother was playing football when he landed at an odd angle and broke his ankle really badly. Know...

May 11, 2016
4 min

Is it a metal, is it a glass?

Out here in the thicket of minor metals applications, procreating like so many iodic crystals on a hafnium wire, here is one of the lates...

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