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May 20, 2019 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
In celebration of #WorldMetrologyDay, who wants to know 10 interesting facts about SI units?
1. A ball made of ultra-pure silicon – created to measure Avogadro’s constant for the mole’s new definition – is likely to be the most perfectly round object in existence.
What reaction would you put on your synthesis wish list? We’ve asked drug discovery chemists for their dream reactions. Here’s their top five. chemistryworld.com/news/the-five-…1. Fluorination.
A reaction that exchanges an H for an F in molecules with lots of other functional groups is one of med chem’s most wanted.
Mar 8, 2018 • 10 tweets • 8 min read
It's #IWD2018, so we thought we should highlight some of the incredible #WomeninSTEM we've written about recently.
First up, Melanie @SanfordLab –gardener & gymnast with a treadmill desk:
chemistryworld.com/opinion/im-a-b… 1/10
Next, Lesley Yellowlees, former president of @RoySocChem, whose favourite place to think is the shower, loves Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and says a @TakeThat gig was 'the most uplifting thing I’d ever seen'
