Andrea Sella – Page 8
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Classic Kit: The Evans balance
Easy to use and robust, the Evans or JM balance has been on the market in various forms since 1974
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Classic Kit: Pardy apparatus
Martin Luther Kings great 1963 speech calling for racial equality and an end to discrimination
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Classic Kit: Warburg's manometer
It is probably fair to say that for all its crucial importance to the smooth running of society, accountancy seldom generates great excitement or wide acclaim
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Classic Kit: Craig's rotary evaporator
Years ago, a non-chemist friend of mine visiting my lab asked me what a rotavap was for
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Classic Kit: Bridgman's seal
The most reductive of literary critics are wont to say that there are only seven kinds of stories
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Classic Kit: Saussure's cyanometer
In 1959, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis assembled his ideal sextet
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Classic Kit: Gooch's crucible
Many years ago, a friend of mine teased me about how I, as a chemist, would probably die young of some dread occupational disease
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Classic Kit: Haldane's blood gas analyser
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who steered Ivory Coast to independence in 1959, was known as the Sage of Africa
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Classic Kit: Morton flask
Baldassarre Castiglione wrote that the perfect gentleman should 'affect in all things sprezzatura' - artful effortlessness
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Classic Kit: Dean-Stark apparatus
If there is any single substance that unites pretty much all chemists, it has to be water
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Classic Kit: Pasteur pipette
Courage is not a trait that one always associates with scientists
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Classic Kit: Vernier scale
Sooner or later, it is the fate of every scholar to be accused of pedantry
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Classic Kit: Petri dish
When I was about 16, I came across a peculiar novel in my father's study