Birthday is my best accomplishment here
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| “Birthday is my best accomplishment here” Lamanto Valerio celebrates 18 on page 2 >> A typical citizen is a driver Meet the New Zea- land Olympiad team page 3 >> Burn after reading Something you’d better not know about chemical weapon page 4 >> №4 July 17, 2013 7.00-8.00 Breakfast We in Russia have an idiom: when you can’t do a thing or do it with diffi culty, people will say “You’ve eaten too little porridge”. In Russian it sounds like “Каши мало ел” [car-she marla yell]. Guys, you’ll face a big challenge in MSU today, eat more porridge! By the way, while English porridge is traditionally made of oats, here in Russia we cook it with everything: rice, semolina, peas, pearl barley and millet. 8.00-9.30 Transfer to MSU
Spend some quality time on your way, prepare for the experimental tour. Russian students have a superstition: if you put a 5 rouble coin inside your shoe (under the heel), you’ll have luck at the exam. There’s no statistics on how this thing works with Olympiads, so you can check for yourself. 10.00-15.00 Experi- mental tour, MSU Both sides of the entrance to the faculty are marked with two statues of great Russian chemists: Mendeleev and Butlerov. Again there’s a superstition: touch Mendeleev’s foot to succeed in non-organic chemistry exam, for organic chemistry go touch Butlerov’s feet. 15.00-17.00 Lunch in MSU There are 37 food points over the whole area of MSU, the main building alone has 5 canteens. Enjoy not only the meal, but the atmosphere of the place, which was designed at the time when Soviet Union was launching the fi rst spaceman Gagarin and developing nuclear energy. 17.00-18.30 Transfer to Circus You’ll most probably have a chance to see the famous Moscow traffi c jams. 19.00-22.00 Circus Performance You’re lucky to be visiting one of the oldest — still the coolest — circuses in Russia. In front of it there’s an unusual monument to a great clown Yuri Nikulin with a permanent queue to take a picture. The third superstition for today — rub his nose for luck. 22.00-23.00 Transfer to Planernoye, dinner... This is where we run out of space! Today is gonna be the day | Catalyzer’s tips After claiming that playing football is a must for every male citizen of El Salvador, Salvadorans took the fi eld and indeed showed a great game. >> see page 2 Salvadorans walk the talk Salvadorans walk the talk “Getting 1 kg of cesium for birthday would be pretty cool” According to the names on T-shirts among players from Armenia, Lithuania, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Venezuela and Sweden there were real stars:
Alberto, Peru (№9) and Argentinian Del Grosso (№10). The fans were delighted to greet Real’s halfback Angel Di Maria (№7) who came to play, although very soon turned out to be an Azerbaijani Balagardash Bashirov. The same happened to the player named Jesus Christ, on whose behalf, as it turned out, a Salvadoran
Catalyzer was watching Salvadorans pretty closely. The thing is the evening before in an interview to us they’ve claimed that football is their country’s national sport and real El Salvador male citizens are great at football. Let’s say El Salvador did not let us down. No sooner said than done, in one of the games
the one to score the decisive goal, in yet another game his compatriot Edwin Ariel did the same. By noon Catalyzer jour- nalists — to their amazement — spotted a girl at the pitch. A beautiful representative of Swit- zerland named Josephine Pratiwi was chasing the ball in sandals, easily beating the guys. “Weren’t you afraid to play against her?” — we asked a virtuoso Venezuelan Johel Arteaga. “Not me, because we’re in one team, but other teams really should! — he said. — Yeah, playing football with girls is actually pretty awesome”. >> from page 1 Yesterday morning the future сhemistry gurus proved science is not their only strong point. The pre-dinner break was enough for over a half of all IChO male Olympians to show up at the pitch. Multinational teams played in the come-and-go “sudden death” mode, meaning that every match was played until the fi rst scored goal.
— Eighteen years old in Italy mean you’re of age — with all that it implies. It also means that in a year I’ll be fi nishing school and when I do, I’ll try to enter Scu- ola Normale Superiore in Pisa. — I can’t say that much changed over this year since my last birthday. But one thing is defi nitely different: I’m here at IChO. I didn’t get there last year, even though I applied and was the fourth in my country. This time I was luckier. — I love organic chemistry. There’s so much beauty in these reactions, they’re logical, yet complicated, and this all challenges me incredibly. — There is a person I admire, his name is, I mean was Alan Turing. The father of computation and the fi rst guy to realise what we can do with electronics! Only his destiny is something I wouldn’t like to repeat. — If I could get a Nobel Prize, I’d love to get it for inventing a cure for cancer. Though I don’t think it’s possible, I’m not very much into pharmaceuticals, I’m more about theory and I don’t really care how it’s applied. — My favorite chemical reaction is Flu- orine + Cesium, because it’s intense. It goes between the strongest metal and non-metal elements, it gives out no gas, it can go at low temperature and it gives the beautiful proper fl ame. — If I could get a free ticket, I’d go to Ice- land. Ice, fi re, you see, I like contrasts :) — The substance I’d like to be associated with is tungsten. Because it has the high- est melting temperature ever. It never fuses.
— I haven’t celebrated birthday for 5 or 6 years. I don’t even remember what it is to get presents, except for birthday cards. I don’t know what present I’d like to get... What? A kilogram of cesium? Haha, well, sounds nerdy, but that actually would be pretty cool!
18 years old Born: Rive, a small village Lives with his family:mother, father and a younger sister. Speaks Italian and English Studies chemistry for 3 years. Believes it to be the second purest science after physics.
Kremlin insights A Country in Brief New Zealand Every day Catalyzer picks a random delegation and goes to meet the team. Olympians shared what they discovered during the Kremlin tour. Catalyzer shares something too. The New Zealand team consists of three guys and one girl. We asked them to introduce each other. Team about Cindy: Cindy is the only girl in the team. She can play viola.
erford who was born in New Zealand postulated planetary model for atomic structure. He was the fi rst chemist to try splitting up an atom and it’s nucleus.
is pretty relaxed and he really creative in the way he solves problems. Besides, Frank drives, although he’s pretty young. Team about Frank: Frank is very smart. And has an amazing talent to sleep in different places — in the bus, in the plane, at the station — mostly everywhere! Frank fi nds differences between Moscow and his own city: Moscow University is so huge comparing to Portland, where the university is all spread-out, so the buildings can be located all over the city. And your transport seems a bit more effi cient than ours.
Keniel
plays saxophone, he’s fond of music. He dreams of inventing a time-ma- chine, because he’d like to use his time more effi ciently. He wants it to be made of radioactive compounds because this would be real fun. Keniel about his favorite substance: Lumines- cent substances because they shine in the dark and I like this blue light.
He enjoys playing badminton! He is re- ally very good at maths.
chemistry at 13 or 14 years, and it is com- pulsory until they are 16. We have 5 science classes a week and 2 of them are chemistry lessons. Alexander Matthew Turner, Australia We’ve learnt a lot about Russian medieval history today, I was sur- prised to learn that there wasn’t just one Kremlin in Moscow, there are a lot of kremlins all over Russia. Kim Kristian Kuntze, Finland It was very curious to know that Catherine the Great had about 15000 dresses and over 1500 carriages.
We’ve learnt that Ivan the Great Bell Tower is the highest building in Mos- cow Kremlin, it’s over 60 meters high. And the icon wall there is also very high and really impressive. We also noticed Russians really like gold, there are so many golden things there in Kremlin. And the size of those treasures is a bit... enormous! Priscila Vensaus, Paula Borovik, Nicolas, Nicolas Del Grosso, Lautaro Vogt, Argentina Amani Mahdiyar, Heidari Hirbod, Iran Amani Mahdiyar, Heidari Hirbod, Iran Ada Maria Krzak, Denmark The word "kremlin" itself means "a steep bank" and was used for Russian fortresses built on river banks. The most famous Russian kremlins are situated in Moscow, Pskov, Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Kolom- na, Tula, Kazan, Rostov, Astrakhan and Ryazan. The height of the Bell Tower is in fact over 80 meters. After it was built in 16-17th century, there was a longtime ban prohibiting the construction Catherine (Ekaterina) the Great (1729-1796) was a Russian Empress whose court is known for particular splendor. of buildings higher than it. So till the turn of 18th century it really was the tallest building in Moscow.
Meet Russian Chemists What kind of souvenirs did you buy? Happy Birthday! Nikolay Zinin (1812-1880) First steps in chemistry Was studying maths at the University of Kazan, when his rector, an outstanding mathematician Nikolay Lobachevsky, persuaded Zinin to do with chemistry. You could think it was a fail for a young guy to be advised not to keep on with maths by a great math- ematician of his days. But in fact Lobachevsky said: “If you’re brilliant at math, you’ll be good in chemistry, and we are now in a great need for chemists”.
In 1842 discovered the reduction of aromatic nitro сompounds into aromatic amines (Zinin reaction). Basing on it, synthesized aniline. Zinin’s syntheses became the basis for creating the industry of syn- thetic dyes, explosives, pharmaceuticals, fragrances. He discovered the hydrazobenzene regrouping when exposed to acids and called it “benzo-benzidine rear- rangement” In 1852 synthesized isothiocyanate acid allylether, сommonly called “volatile mustard oil”. Discovered ureides (1855).
Contemporaries about Zinin: “Chemistry, mineralo- gy, botany, geology, astronomy, physiology, — he was familiar with all that, and fundamentally. He had amazing memory — he would quoted whole pages of Schiller in German and in translation”. Quote: “Your Alfred Nobel just snatched the dynamite from under our noses!” Alfred Nobel, the future inventor of dynamite, was Zinin’s countryside neighbor and saw Zinin’s experiments with nitroglycerin. magnets — 12 Moscow view — 7 mugs —
4 T-shirt — 2 nothing — 4 khokhloma-style spoon, egg (Faberge imitation), matryoshka — 1 Burn after reading By Jan Apotheker, member OPCW Temporary Working Group on education and outreach, chair organization IChO 2002, Groningen All substances are fairly common. Pseudoephedrine is the active substance in some cough syrups, originally extracted from Chinese plant Ephedra. Thiodiglycol is used for water-based dyes in cloth manufacturing industry, especially in developing countries, as well as for printing inks and felt-tipped pens.
es. ˜-lactone is a widely used industrial detergent. Now check out related compounds. It shouldn’t take you too long to fi gure out how to convert compounds in chart 1 into those of chart 2. The trouble is that compounds in chart 2 are respectively:
tal meth), sarin and gamma hydroxyl butyric acid (party drug GHB). As you can guess, all four are dangerous and strictly forbidden in most countries of the world. Not only chemicals pose these problems. Whole chemical plants can be misused in much the same way. This is what has happened several times over the last 30 years, when certain countries have sup- plied to others equipment then used to produce weapons and toxins like mustard gas, sarin and VX. The problem of the dual use of chemicals (for both innocent purposes and doing harm to others) is rather ethical than scientifi c. How does the international community deal with the problem? >> To be continued in the next issue. How is chemical weapon made postcards with Fang Haitian, student, Singapore Alex Eremin, organizer, Russia Is
there anything in common between thiodiglycol, pseudoephedrine, and isopropanol or ˜-lactone?
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