Stories
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What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
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When wounds replace words
For the many thousands of refugees waiting in Greece, the process to establish the truth of their tragic personal histories is often extremely upsetting. But a group of medics and legal workers is working together to make the system more humane.
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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.
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When the sun goes down
Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.
Catalogue
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Fownes' manual of chemistry : theoretical and practical / [George Fownes].
Fownes, George, 1815-1849.Date: 1877- Books
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Lectures on theoretical and physical chemistry / by Dr. J.H. van't Hoff, translated by Dr. R.A. Lehfeldt.
Hoff, J. H. van 't (Jacobus Henricus), 1852-1911.Date: [1899-1900]- Journals
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Journal of the Chemical Society. A, Inorganic, physical, theoretical
Date: 1966-1971- Books
Outlines of physical chemistry / [Farrington Daniels].
Daniels, Farrington, 1889-1972.Date: 1948- Journals
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Annual reports on the progress of chemistry. Section C, Physical chemistry
Date: ©1980-2013