by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor When my wife and I got engaged, one of our friends gave us a very special card featuring a familiar-looking shape. Drawing on my undergraduate chemistry courses, I identified it as the face-centred cubic crystalline structure of diamond; the little “C’s” stood for carbon. This was my first introduction to the work of Rovena Tey, who may well be Canada’s only chemistry artist. A couple of weeks later I saw the designs again, in Toronto’s Arts Market. I bought a blue pin that says “Dream” and shows the structure of melatonin, a hormone molecule […]
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