Kitchen Chemistry #4: Induction Cooking
Have you ever tried to jumpstart a car using cheap jumper leads? What happened? You probably found that the leads …
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Kitchen Chemistry #3: What Saucepans are Best?
Saucepans can be made out of lots of materials: stainless steel, copper, aluminium, glass, cast iron. Which one is best? …
Are My Chooks Eating DDT?
A listener asks: “I live in an older suburb in Perth (Freo) in the past they have used chemicals in …
MENSA or DENSA?
Heidi Hankins is one of the youngest members of MENSA, an organisation only open to those with an IQ in …
Kitchen Chemistry #2: The Best Cleaning Chemical Ever!
If thallium is the Rolls-Royce Corniche of poisons, what are some other classes of chemical measures of excellence that we …
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Kitchen Chemistry #1: DIY Cleaner/Disinfectant
You want something to wipe your kitchen bench tops with that will both clean and disinfect? Well, of course, there …
It’s a Whitewash !!
One of my earliest childhood memories was a job that I had remarking the white lines on the local tennis …
Oil Stains on Cement Driveways
A common question on my radio show is how to clean oil stains off driveways. Before describing how to clean …
A Cure for Cancer?
Everything is a chemical. That’s what fascinates me about life. And every chemical in existence either occurred naturally, or was …