A few of the articles in this week's C&EN:
- This week's cover article on the overlap between oncology treatments for dogs and for people.
- Is it a surprise that there's cesium on the ocean floor near the Fukushima Daiichi site? (article by Andrea Widener)
- Jean-François Tremblay and Marc S. Reisch have C&EN's coverage on the Tianjin explosion; no mention of calcium carbide, but they do mention ammonium nitrate.
- Fun article on 3-D printing molecular models by Matt Davenport.
- Does anyone else feel like this is a field that's waiting for someone to just take it over and make a ton of money?
- As someone who has rice in their diet, this article on arsenic in rice (and the ways to remove it) by Britt Erickson is interesting...
"Does anyone else feel like this is a field that's waiting for someone to just take it over and make a ton on money?" Aren't these called "Tinkertoys?"
ReplyDeleteit could be from all those bags of molecular sieves that they were dumping around Fukushima, to remove radiocesium from seawater. Porous sodium aluminosilicates have high affinity for Cs, but then you end up with a sediment enriched in radioactivity...
ReplyDeleteTwo comments about the "arsenic in rice" issue.
ReplyDelete1) It's claimed in this article Rice Advice that Japanese consume far more rice and take in approximately 20x the quantity of arsenic, yet have a greater life expectancy.
2) Perhaps greater concern for the quantities of cadmium in rice is in order... Food Safety News