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Everyday Chemistry - Video: Exploding Cake

When you think of a chemist, do you think of a serious person in a white coat? But chemists love to have fun too, in their own special way. Here's a video of a special chemistry party!

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History & Future - Mass Spectrometry helps identify molecules

Over the twentieth century, the Mass Spectrometer has become an indispensable tool of many types of chemists and will continue to be important. This piece of equipment is used to identify chemical compounds by breaking them up into smaller charged particles and then detecting them. The first apparatus to be called a mass spectrometer was built by Francis Ashton in Cambridge, UK in 1918.

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Famous Scientists - Svante Arrhenius

Svante Arrhenius was one of the first chemists in the field of physical chemistry. He was the first person to discover the effect of global warming. His experiments focus on the effect of the doubling of the amount of carbon dioxide gas on the environment. Even today the issue of global warming is still debated and extensive research is conducted in this field.

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Famous Scientists - Victor Grignard & Paul Sabatier

Francois Auguste Victor Grignard and Paul Sabatier were joint Noble Laureates for chemistry in the year 1912. They were both French chemists who started their careers in different fields, mathematics and physics, but made respectable contributions to the field of chemistry later in their life.

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Famous Scientists - Ahmed Hassan Zewail

In a little town called Damanhur, Egypt, a little boy was very fond of learning science. His family dreamed that he would become a great professor some day. So they posted a small sign "Dr. Ahmed" outside his study to encourage him. He grew up to be one of the greatest chemists of our times - Prof. Ahmed Zewail.

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Famous Scientists - August Kekule

Few scientists have left a stamp on chemistry as August Kekule has. Even today, chemists celebrate his life and work like a hero. So let's learn a bit more about him!

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Famous Scientists - Fausto de Elhuyar

Tungsten is everywhere in our lives. A tungsten filament gives us light whenever we switch a tubelight or CFL on. Let's have a look at the chemists who discovered this vital element.

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Famous Scientists - James Dewar

All of us know that chemistry is the science that studies the materials that are important to our lives. But did you know that one field, physical chemistry, is particularly important? Let's meet one of the most renowned physical chemists ever.

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Famous Scientists - Ya'qub Al-Kindi

When you study chemistry at school, have you wondered how it all started? While most famous chemists are Europeans and Americans, chemistry actually started among the Arabs. Let's get to know one of the earliest ones - Al-Kindi.

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Famous Scientists - Josiah Willard Gibbs

We read a little about Hermann von Helmholtz, the founder of thermodynamics, last week. But it was really Josiah Gibbs who helped it develop into a great science, which is followed by all chemists today. Let's know more about him.

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Famous Scientists - Reinhold Benesch & Ruth Erica Benesch Find How Oxygen is Transported in Human Body

Reinhold Benesch and Ruth Erica Benesch are American biochemists who put in forty years to find out how oxygen is transported in our human body.

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