Pipe dream

PETROCHEMISTRY

The Aframax-class tanker — 245 metres long and loaded with oilsands bituman piped in from Alberta — pulls away from the marine terminal at Burnaby, BC, moving through Burrard Inlet past Stanley Park.

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Inorganic Chemistry Division recognizes top-notch students

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
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The Canadian Society for Chemistry’s Inorganic Chemistry Division announces its graduate and undergraduate award winners. The 2015 Award for Undergraduate Research in Inorganic Chemistry (AURIC) was awarded to Jackson Knott from the University of Lethbridge. Hailing from Crowsnest Pass, Alta., Knott has worked on...

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Arsenic—a foe with many faces

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY

Wherever arsenic goes, its sinister reputation precedes it. And arsenic really gets around. While other elements may be found far more abundantly in the Earth’s crust, oceans or atmosphere, at...

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Safety catch

REGULATIONS

March came in like a lion for Port Metro Vancouver when a shipping container full of trichloroisocyanuric acid imported from China exploded, creating a massive chemical fire with toxic brown-grey...

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Grapevine

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
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Top Canadian chemists were honoured at the annual Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) awards ceremony Feb. 17 at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

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1951 Chemistry in Canada

HISTORY
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In 1901, Thomas Leopold Willson, Canadian inventor of the calcium carbide manufacturing process, created the Shawinigan Carbide Company. The facility was located near Shawinigan Falls, Que., benefitting from the surplus...

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The science network

POLICY PUNDIT

Alan Bernstein, head of the Canadian Institute for Advanced­ Research, calls for greater involvement from the private sector to ensure our nation stays abreast of rapid advances in the technology...

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