Distillations magazine

Is chemistry’s ubiquity why we so rarely talk about its historical importance?

Now ubiquitous and vital to modern life, aluminum was once more expensive than gold, locked away in its ore without a commercially viable method to release it.

The rise of the digital age depended on integrated circuits made with new materials and techniques that could both increase performance and drive down cost.

Mendeleev’s greatest achievement was not the periodic table so much as the recognition of the periodic system on which it was based.