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Initially called “Fiber K” by the DuPont chemist who invented it, it was a replacement for the rubber used in women’s foundation garments, which was weighty, hot and quick to stretch out.

As well as the cafe, Tarves features businesses such as a pub, a local shop, a chemist, and hairdressers.

Ketones appear throughout organic molecules, which is why chemists are eager to create new reactions that take advantage of them when forming chemical bonds.

I used to be a chemist, and half the people in my lab 20 years ago were from China.

In 2021, a study in Science showed that chemists could use tandem nanoscale catalysts to merge several steps of this conversion into a single reaction -- an approach that increases yield and reduces costs.