Chemistry and Politics

[sawyl]

We had an interesting discussion about the Litvinenko thing last night, which pater and V found baffling. V reckoned that it was very unlikely to the Russian govt who, he reckoned, had an interest in avoiding any international embarrassment and he didn't reckon that it was business related, because Litvinenko was such a small fish.

I, on the other hand, was rather more excited by the discovery that my much neglected copy of Greenwood and Earnshaw has a whole chapter devoted to selenium, tellurium and polonium. Nice to get some use out of it again, even if it doesn't make much sense anymore...