/oss/taxonomy/term/1443/all en /oss/article/medical-history/tale-benzene-poisoning-and-snake-snaring-its-own-tail <hr /> <p><em>This article was first published in <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/the-right-chemistry-a-tale-of-a-snake-snaring-its-tail">The Montreal Gazette.</a></em></p> <hr /> <p>Professor Carl Santesson was intrigued.</p> Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:38:54 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 9889 at /oss /oss/article/health-and-nutrition/concerns-about-cookware-chemistry <p>Like most chemists, I like to cook.  After all, what is cooking but the appropriate mixing of chemicals?  In the lab we use flasks and beakers, but how do we equip our kitchen?  Tiffany's in New York offers a silver frying pan for thousands of dollars, specialty stores sell gleaming copper pots for a couple of hundred while a thin aluminum pot can be had almost anywhere for a few bucks.  What's the difference? </p> Fri, 21 Jan 2022 19:45:13 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 9001 at /oss /oss/article/history/little-mercurial-history <p>“Since calomel’s become their boast,/ How many patients have they lost?/ How many thousands they make ill,/ Of poison with their calomel?” So ran a little verse written in 1825 by an unknown poet who was obviously disenchanted with medical practice of the day.</p> Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:30:45 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 7713 at /oss