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Review: The abusers and the abused

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Student Review: Lean pickings in chemistry

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Science: Artificial molecule shows 'sign of life'

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Forum: Chemists as accountants - Why do so many of them go into the City?

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Science: Chemists tame the wild side of drugs

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Science: New material makes light double its frequency

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Chemists find the easy way to make a conducting polymer

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Science: Chemists penetrate benzene's final disguise

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Science: The making of a molecule in a billion billion

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An element of unpredictability / Review of 'Chemistry of Tin' edited by Phillip G. Harrison

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Science: All-carbon molecule looms in sight

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Science: Xenon chemistry comes out of the cold

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