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Tag: chemistry

19JUN

A Chemist’s Guide to the Hydrogen Bond

How its understanding has changed through the years   The year was 1919. May was approaching and so was graduation season at the University of California, Berkeley in the USA. A young undergraduate student was in deep distress. One of his professors, William Bray, had assigned a paper to be submitted before the end of […]

Posted in: Featured, History, In the lab, ResearchTagged: chemistry, History, Hydrogen bond
09DEC

Chemistry Matters

Why the oldest department in IISc continues to be relevant   As one goes down the canopy-covered Tala Marg in IISc, there stands a building tucked unobtrusively on the right side. The exposed stone bricks, sharp features, and small windows harken back to a time when robustness and utility were qualities that were paramount. Even […]

Posted in: Campus Chronicles, HistoryTagged: chemistry, History, IISc history, Inorganic and Physical Chemistry
28SEP

Tale of Two Rivers

How pollutants like microplastics and fertilisers are damaging riverine ecosystems   It’s 2022, which means that if the word “river” crops up in a conversation among college students, it would most likely be in the context of a Buzzfeed quiz that seeks to categorise them into a type of river. With the vast number of […]

Posted in: Out of the lab, ResearchTagged: cauvery, chemistry, fertilisers, mahanadi, microplastics, pollution, river, spectroscopy, zebrafish

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