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Chemical Tales |
This is a collection of pieces I wrote while the Beacon Reader online site existed. I wrote chemical "biographies" of compounds that were important in industry and other applications, or just interesting in their own right. I explained who discovered the chemical, its original intended use, subsequent uses, its economic value, its biological effects and health risks from exposure. This was really fun to do, but as with most fun projects, it wasn't self-sustaining.
Here are some Chemical Tales:
Toluene: the sweet smell of brain damage
Trench Warfare in Your Bathroom: chloropicrin
A Tale of Two Chemicals: DDT and methoxychlor
Don't Bogart that Dronabinol, My Friend
Lithium: Is that a Battery in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Wattle You Have? Some Healthy Tannins with your Seed Cake?
If at First You Don't Succeed, Tritan, Tritan again!
Trench Warfare in Your Bathroom: chloropicrin
A Tale of Two Chemicals: DDT and methoxychlor
Don't Bogart that Dronabinol, My Friend
Lithium: Is that a Battery in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Wattle You Have? Some Healthy Tannins with your Seed Cake?
If at First You Don't Succeed, Tritan, Tritan again!
Here are some of my rather fanciful molecule images: