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As a result of this common usage of chemicals the whole subject has been tainted with unpleasant connotations. And while physics and biology have their celebrity scientists extolling the wonders of bosons, bugs and big bangs, chemists are left floundering in their wake or are left completely unrepresented in the mainstream media (wheres the Guardians chemistry blog?). This is all despite the modern world having been built on the innovations of chemists. For example, most of the worlds population is sustained by the innovations of one of them. Fritz Haber invented a means to turn the nitrogen in the air into useful agricultural fertiliser (40% of the nitrogen in you comes from Habers reaction). Meanwhile the chemists who artificially prepared or purified antibiotics are responsible for a treatment that saves more lives than any other medical intervention. From the Sense About Science guide/ Making Sense of Chemical Stories. theguardian/science/blog/2014/may/19/manmade-natural-tasty-toxic-chemicals compoundchem/2014/05/19/natural-vs-man-made-chemicals-dispelling-misconceptions/ frogheart.ca/?tag=making-sense-of-chemical-stories
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:00:01 +0000

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