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The Rhubarb Connection and Other Revelations: The Everyday World of Metal Ions
By
Jacques Covès;
Jacques Covès
CNRS Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble
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Raychelle Burks
Raychelle Burks
St. Edward’s University, USA
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Paperback ISBN:
978-1-78801-094-8
PDF ISBN:
978-1-83916-850-5
EPUB ISBN:
978-1-78801-669-8
Special Collection:
RSC Popular Science eBook Collection
Product Type:
Popular Science
No. of Pages:
212
Publication date:
06 Dec 2018
Book Chapter
CHAPTER 2: Rhubarb, an Emperor and the Butler's Pride
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Published:06 Dec 2018
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Special Collection: RSC Popular Science eBook CollectionProduct Type: Popular Science
Page range:
9 - 19
Citation
The Rhubarb Connection and Other Revelations: The Everyday World of Metal Ions, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018, pp. 9-19.
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Was the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 a result of the reaction between Ca2+ and oxalate ions? With a short introduction concerning Napoleon III and his gallstones, we move on to oxalate-rich rhubarb and then to rust removal using this and other naturally occurring chelating ligands such as citric acid, introducing the concepts of coordination number and coordination geometry along the way.
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