Chemistry Podcast: July/August 2008
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Chempod is going green this episode as we report from the latest American Chemical Society meeting where sustainability was big on the agenda. Plus gold catalysis, self-assembling molecules and the terrorism suspect who's been banned from studying school chemistry.
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