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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 7: Molecules and Murderers – The Art of Detection and Measuring
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Published:06 Dec 2018
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Special Collection: RSC Popular Science eBook CollectionProduct Type: Popular Science
Page range:
93 - 120
Citation
The Rhubarb Connection and Other Revelations: The Everyday World of Metal Ions, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018, pp. 93-120.
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From Ferrocene, first spotted as a yellow sludge by pipe inspectors at a Union Carbide cracker, to the effects of hard water on fish, this chapter deals with the art of detection and measuring. The famous Chen–Kao Reaction and the Luminol test feature, along with the life-saving applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging – most commonly known as MRI.
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