An attractive amethyst geode sits on my desk. Geodes are rocks with an internal cavity that is filled with crystals of a mineral. In the case of amethyst that mineral is quartz, tainted with iron...
It all started with a stomach exploding in Uganda. It鈥檚 the case that鈥檚 often cited as launching the saga of a fringe diagnosis: a five-year-old boy in 1946 was being treated for a chronic...
Have you ever heard the saying "beer before liquor never been sicker"? Or 鈥渓iquor before beer, you鈥檙e in the clear鈥�? What about 鈥済rape or grain but never the twain鈥�? Well, it turns out that there...
The term 鈥渁lcohol鈥� to a chemist聽 means an organic compound that contains an OH group, but as far as the public is concerned 鈥渁lcohol鈥� refers to one specific compound, namely, ethanol. It is ethanol...
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