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Just been helping my son with chemistry, and accidentally flipped the narrative. He was looking at the Haber–Bosch process for making ammonia. I asked him about what ammonia's good for, the timing of the development, the timing of World War 1...He was so suddenly interested like he's never been interested in chemistry before.Then we got onto older ways of extracting nitrates from urine, something that Germany also had an advantage in because they drank so much beer.And then to the initial extraction of phosphorus.And then to calculating that, if only one person were involved, it'd take about a decade of collecting urine to replicate Brand and Kunckel's work.Apparently the chem teacher never talks about things like this.Even though we've been talking about the importance of doing so since the 1990s, and it's supposedly REQUIRED by the national curriculum.#school #chemistry #histSci #histSciTech

L'innovazione? È giovane, sarda, darà lavoro in Calabria e sa di liquirizia - Vita.ithttps://www.vita.it/storie-e-persone/linnovazione-e-giovane-sarda-dara-lavoro-in-calabria-e-sa-di-liquirizia/"Un chimico sassarese, poco più che 30enne, Matteo Poddighe, ha creato un team iniziando a produrre un additivo dagli scarti della pianta. Da una molecola, nasce un materiale che frena il proliferare di patogeni ed è ideale per realizzare imballaggi alimentari. Alkelux, la start up che ne è nata sarà presto B Corp e programma di aprire uno stabilimento nella Piana di Sibari, dove la "Glycyrrhiza" glabra si coltiva".#MadeinSardinia #chimica #chemistry #innovazionetecnologica #innovation

@GetzlerChem Awesome. 🤩As I bought some eBooks on the topic yesterday at Humble, maybe some here find this interesting as well.https://www.humblebundle.com/books/embroidery-sashiko-and-decorative-stitching-open-road-books?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_1_layout_type_threes_tile_index_3_c_embroiderysashikoanddecorativestitchingopenroad_bookbundle

@brianb @GetzlerChem If you're looking for chem & art examples (not an artist in residence) @kristinHenry is a great source, a lot of her stuff is based on iterations of chemical ideas (some of how she generates patterns might be more applicable to your programming class than your chemistry one however).