• Question: What is the most important element in your work place?

    Asked by anon-226998 to Harry on 13 Nov 2019.
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      Harry Wilkinson answered on 13 Nov 2019:


      Iron.

      A lot of the people in my lab are working on the chemistry of iron to try and use it instead of Palladium, which is used for a lot of large scale chemical reactions, but is really expensive and toxic. Iron is really cheap and pretty non-toxic so it would be a lot better if we could use that instead.

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