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A very happy Speaking of Chemistry Thanksgiving (video)

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A Very Happy Speaking of Chemistry Thanksgiving

image: There's plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving beyond turkey, giblets and gravy. In this episode of Speaking of Chemistry, our hosts share the extraordinary chemistry behind what they're grateful for this year including a sustainable jet fuel, a molecule that helps us see better, and a drug that changed one host's life. It's all just a click away: https://youtu.be/CUpf8Hmhhng. view more 

Credit: The American Chemical Society

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24, 2015 -- There's plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, aside from turkey, giblets and gravy. In this episode of Speaking of Chemistry, our hosts share the extraordinary chemistry behind some of the things they're grateful for this year, including a sustainable jet fuel, a molecule that helps us see better and a drug that changed one host's life. It's all just a click away: https://youtu.be/CUpf8Hmhhng.

Speaking of Chemistry is a production of Chemical & Engineering News, a weekly magazine of the American Chemical Society. The program features fascinating, weird and otherwise interesting chemistry topics. Subscribe to the series at http://bit.ly/CENOnline and follow us on Twitter @CENmag.

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