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Get Real

March 1, 2011May 22, 2012 Akshat RathiLeave a comment

You find a lady clad in a filthy ragged coat. She is holding onto something in her right hand and flipping it at a regular pace. She is mumbling, almost as if chanting, and her eyes are transfixed on something. What separates her from what she is staring at is a glass window.

The scene is not set in a Buddhist monastery in Cambodia or a busy temple in India but in a chemistry lab. The lady is a chemist wearing a stained old lab coat, holding her lucky charm and staring at the flask in her fume cupboard, in a hope that her reaction works this time.

Get Real – Chemistry World, March 2011 issue

On a high

December 8, 2010October 10, 2012 Akshat RathiLeave a comment

Tetrahydrocannabinol is the psychoactive substance in cannabis which is also known as weed, marijuana, ganja, hash, pot, mary jane or the various other names that people have given it. If you don’t get a chance to legally try marijuana, listening to the podcast might be the closest you could get to that experience.

Chemistry in its elements: Tetrahydrocannabinol, Chemistry World, 8 December 2010

Smuggling the rare

October 29, 2010May 18, 2012 Akshat RathiLeave a comment

Widespread smuggling of rare earth materials and rapidly increasing domestic demands are key factors in China’s recent moves to drastically reduce exports of the sought after elements.

Smuggling key factor in China’s rare earth actions – Chemistry World, 29 October 2010