An element of controversy : the life of chlorine in science, medicine, technology and war / edited by Hasok Chang and Catherine Jackson from research by undergraduate students at University College London.
Index. Introduction / Hasok Chang -- 11. The Catherine Jackson -- pt. A. Chlorine and the theory of matter -- 1. The discovery of chlorine : a window on the chemical revolution / Ruth Ashbee -- 2. The elementary nature of chlorine / Tamsin Gray, Rosemary Coates and Marten Akesson -- 3. Chlorine and Prout's hypothesis / Jonathan Nendick, Dominic Scrancher and Olivier Usher -- 4. Looking into the core of the Sun / Christian Guy, Emma Goddard, Emily Milner, Lisa Murch and Andrew B. Clegg -- pt. B. Life, death and destruction by chlorine -- 5. Obstacles in the establishment of chlorine bleaching / Manchi Chung, Saber Farooqi, Jacob Soper and Olympia Brown -- 6. Chlorine disinfection and theories of disease / Anna Lewcock, Fiona Scott-Kerr and Elinor Mathieson -- 7. Chlorine as the first major chemical weapon / Frederick Cowell, Xuan Goh, James Cambrook and David Bulley -- 8. Ethics, public relations, and the origins of the Geneva Protocol / Abbi Hobbs, Catherine Jefferson, Nicholas Coppeard and Chris Pitt -- 9. The rise and fall of "chlorine chambers" against cold and flu / David Nader and Spasoje Marcinko -- 10. War and the scientific community / Sam Raphael, George Kalpadakis and Daisy O'Reilly-Weinstock -- 11. The noisy reception of Silent Spring / Kimm Groshong -- Epilogue : Turning an undergraduate class into a professional research community / Hasok Chang -- Index.
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