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Chemistry World September 13, 2013 Philip Ball	Metallic properties predicted for Astatine Astatine is the rarest naturally occurring element, and has no stable isotopes: the longest-lived has a half-life of just 8.1 hours. So no one has ever obtained enough of it to be visible to the naked eye.
Chemistry World September 13, 2013 Emma Stoye	Spicing up water purification A team of US undergraduates have shown that coriander has excellent heavy metal binding properties, which they say could help provide people in developing countries with safer drinking water.
Chemistry World September 13, 2013 Polly Wilson	Polymer regenerates all by itself Self-healing polymers that can spontaneously achieve quantitative healing in the absence of a catalyst have never been reported before, until now.
Chemistry World September 13, 2013 Anthony King	Spinning a catalytic yarn Scientists in Germany have revealed a revolutionary new support for catalysts -- cloth. They succeeded in permanently securing organocatalysts onto nylon using ultraviolet light, without any need for chemical modification.
Chemistry World September 12, 2013 Rowan Frame	Looking behind Dali's paintings A new technique for assessing the condition of work of arts without taking samples from them has emerged from a research collaboration between conservators, curators and scientists.
Chemistry World September 12, 2013 Paola Quattroni	Brain cancer severity linked with oxidation state of iron New research shows that the higher the malignancy grade of a brain tumor, the higher the iron(ii) to iron(iii) ratio in human brain tissue. The finding could point to new approaches for measuring the malignancy grade of tumors.
Chemistry World September 12, 2013 Andy Extance	Sulfur difluoride dimer exposes bonding strangeness Calculations on unusual bonding in the sulfur difluoride dimer FSSF 3 have provided evidence to help explain why some compounds don't follow long-established chemical rules.
Chemistry World September 11, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Explosive research isolates mercury azides With patience, cool nerves and steady hands, chemists in Germany have purified, isolated and characterized previously unseen azides of mercury, which are likely to explode violently under the slightest provocation.
Chemistry World September 11, 2013 Andria Nicodemou	Bacteria incriminated by their odor Researchers in Taiwan and the US have developed a device that uses the volatile organic compounds released by bacteria to identify the bacteria as they are cultured.
Chemistry World September 11, 2013 Emma Stoye	Call to overhaul liver toxicity testing Outdated assays for monitoring liver health could have caused dozens of drug candidates to be wrongly scrapped during development, according to new research.
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