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A Single-Cell View of Metals October 2017 cchheemmiissin Auttstrrraliayy A single-cell view of metals chemaust. raci. org.au • 2018 anniversary for Australian Journal of Chemistry • Chemical warfare: protection and prevention •RACI Centenary Congress wrap-up ADELAIDE | BRISBANE | HOBAR T | MELBOURNE | PER TH | SYDNEY Pipe e p s and lt er p s f or y our labor ator y pipe ng r equir emen ts Why use T ar sons pipe tt e tip s? ȗ Univ er sal tips to fit most models of pipe tt es, including Eppendorf ®, Biohit ® (Boec o), Finnpipe tt e®, Gilson®, R ainin®, Nishir yo®. ȗ Tar sons use a medic al gr ade r esin c onf orming t o U SP Class VI. A vailable st erile and ready t o use. ȗ Made using 100% pr emium vir gin polypr op ylene, fr ee fr om he avy me tals, lubric ants and dy es - A ut oclav able. ȗ Manuf act ur ed in a f ully aut omat ed class 100K cle an r oom. 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J. Chem. 42 Cryptic chemistry 26 Protection and prevention in chemical warfare 42 Events Protection, antidotes, treatments and of course prevention are the subject of ongoing research in the face of chemical weapons attacks. members 4 30 International diplomacy requires chemistry From the President 32 From the Centenary Profile: Dr Brendon Hammer Congress 33 New Fellow views & reviews 5 Your say 34 Books 36 Economics 38 Measurement 40 Grapevine 41 Letter from Melbourne 26 chemaust. raci. org.au from the raci Counting up the Congress From the President Number of delegates 3317: including 126 The RACI celebrated its 100th birthday at the Centenary exhibitors, 3 media, 36 staff, 6 sponsors, 26 Congress in Melbourne, 23–28 July 2017. The conference was an visitors, 31 volunteers outstanding success, and right from the outset I would like to Number of Branch/Division meetings 10 Divisional + 2 thank the CEO of the RACI, Roger Stapleford for his symposia inexhaustible contributions. Roger oversaw much of the Number of affiliated conferences 8 international conferences logistics of this congress, and, as one could imagine, the Number of affiliated seminars 4: ACES, SCI, RSC Panel, organisational aspects were enormous. There were many other A2CS contributors to this congress, the Chair Professor Mark Buntine, Other meetings Decadal plan the Chairs of the respective conferences and divisions that RACI diversity and equity Women in chemistry contributed to the congress, the RACI office staff, the staff of RSC commonwealth the PCO, ICMS Australasia, the staff at the Melbourne round table Convention Centre and of course the delegates who contributed Receptions Royal Society of to all aspects of making sure the conference was intellectually Chemistry Chemical Engineering stimulating, and socially excellent. No doubt I have left SCI someone out of these acknowledgements, and I apologise, but Number of Nobel Laureates 4 the size of the Congress meant this will always happen. The Number of plenaries for our Congress 11 for the main congress amount of networking taking place was overwhelming, with Total number of plenaries and keynotes 189 Total number of invited speakers 211 formal and informal meetings being held simultaneously Total talks 1398 throughout the Convention Centre and, needless to say, bars Total posters 1401 and restaurants nearby. Total rooms 32 Total number of sponsors 16 This was easily the biggest chemistry conference organised Total number of booths 74 in Australia, being well in excess of double anything previously. Number of lunches served 11 000 The numbers elaborate on the size of the Congress (see box). Number of official dinners organised 6 large As part of the 100th celebration, a coffee table book 3 small covering highlights of the first 100 years of the RACI was launched. This book, RACI – a century of bonds , was compiled I have attended many more focused conferences in Australia, by Helmut Hügel, but had considerable contributions from many but this broad congress brought many people together who I others throughout the RACI. The book is an excellent overview have not run into for years, old friends from PhD days, work of the first 100 years of the RACI and has snippets of research, colleagues from years ago, and many ex-students whom I education, timelines etc. If you would like to acquire a book, haven’t seen for some time. Conferences are for learning new please contact the RACI (see p. 35). chemistry and forming networks, but also for the social stimulation of catching up with old friends, and on this basis, it This was easily the biggest was an incredible success. I only wish I would be around in chemistry conference 2117 for RACI Congress 200. organised in Australia, being Peter Junk FRACI CChem (president@ raci.org.au) is RACI well in excess of double President. anything previously. ADVERTISING SALES BOOK REVIEWS MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Mary Pappa Damien Blackwell Sam Adeloju (Chair) Sam. Adeloju@ monash. edu. au, Amanda Ellis, Ph/fax (03) 9328 2033/2670 damo34@ internode.on.net Michael Gardiner, Helmut Hügel, Colin Scholes, Madeleine Schultz, chemaust. raci. org. au chemaust@ raci. org. au Richard Thwaites RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS CONTRIBUTIONS David Huang Contributors’ views are not necessarily endorsed by the RACI, and no EDITOR david. huang@ adelaide. edu. au Sally Woollett responsibility is accepted for accuracy of contributions. Visit the website’s resource centre at chemaust. raci. org. au for information about submissions. Ph (03) 5623 3971 GENERAL ENQUIRIES wools@ westnet.com. au Robyn Taylor © 2017 The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Inc. unless Ph/fax (03) 9328 2033/2670 PRODUCTION otherwise attributed. Content must not be reproduced wholly chemaust@ raci. org. au PRODUCTION EDITOR Control Publications Pty Ltd or in part without written permission. Further details on the Catherine Greenwood [email protected]. au PRESIDENT website ( chemaust. raci. org. au). catherine.greenwood@ bigpond.com www.control.com. au Peter Junk FRACI CChem ISSN 0314-4240 e- ISSN 1839-2539 4 | Chemistry in Australia October 2017 your say Soil lead contamination of Sydney More reflections on Sydney Technical backyards College We thank Dr Moritz for bringing to the readers’ attention I gained my Chemistry Diploma in December 1950 after five (August issue, p. 5) our recent article ‘ VegeSafe: a community years of part-time study. The lessons and experience I gained at science program measuring soil-metal contamination, Sydney Technical College were invaluable to me for the evaluating risk and providing advice for safe gardening’ remainder of my working life. Working as a bucket-and-stick (http://bit. ly/2v45gba and summarised in the June issue, chemist for most of my career, I treasured the input of lecturers p. 34). such as Dwyer and Nyholm in inorganic chemistry and the high Our Macquarie University community science program, standards set by the remainder of the teaching staff. VegeSafe, is the only pro bono service in Australia that provides One of my outstanding memories is of working late one gardeners with free soil metal testing. This service informs evening in the industrial chemistry laboratory, preparing a gardeners of potential metal contamination in their backyard quantity of nitrobenzene. The batch size was about 10 litres and soils. Our program also offers practical advice on simple and the equipment was a 15- litre earthenware open crock with a effective remedies to minimise exposure to toxic metals in their small stainless steel electric mixer. I experienced only a slight soils where present above levels of concern. Since 2013, we exotherm but persisted in adding the acid mix. After closing have provided over 8000 free soil screening tests to over time, Val Rawson appeared and asked me what I was doing. He 2000 Australian households and community garden groups. found that the braised agitator blade had become detached. In the August issue, Dr Moritz explained briefly how the Rawson calmly told me to turn on all the laboratory water taps Australian health investigation levels ( HILs) set by the National and we tipped the mix down the drain! No need to repeat this Environment Protection Measure 1999 (NEPM) are used for experiment my boy, just write it up! contaminated site investigations in Australia.
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