3.4 Capacity building in industrial biotechnology Industrial chemistry is a core sector of some of the key OECD economies. For some of these, industrial biotechnology is seen as a means of maintaining competitiveness in chemistry in the face of Asian and Middle Eastern competition [37]. Governments...
furnace This post was inspired by the Turba philosophorum lecture on the 4thFeb 2022 An athanor is an alchemical furnace, but what exactly does it mean in practise? And I really do mean practise because there is copious evidence for early modern alchemists building and using furnaces for their...