Chemistry in New Zealand Journal - New Zealand Institute of Chemistry

Chemistry in New Zealand

Chemistry in New Zealand (CiNZ) is the professional journal of the NZIC. It is a quarterly publication that is distributed to members, libraries, and other subscribers with a circulation of approximately 1000. It is published in January, April, July and October each year.

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Volume 75, No.1, April 2011

Organic Microanalysis at University of Otago in its 75th Year
Arthur D. Campbell
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Chemistry in Canterbury: 1986-2010
Ward T. Robinson, Michael Edmonds and Darren Saunders
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TAML Activators: Green Chemistry Catalysts as Effective Small Molecule Mimics of the Peroxidase Enzymes
Terrence J. Collins
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Pacifichem 2010: Excerpts from a Student's Diary
Peter G. K. Clark
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Mechanistic Studies of Enantioselective N-aryl, N-alkyl NHC Ruthenium Metathesis Catalysts in Asymmetric Ring-Opening Cross-Metathesis
Renee M. Thomas and Robert H. Grubbs
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In the Year of Chemistry: From Mendeleev to Albert Einstein– The Periodic Table of the Elements and Beyond
Peter Schwerdtfeger
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We Need to Know More about Atmospheric Chemistry
Martin R. Manning
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Volume 74, No.4, October 2010

Healthy Harbour Watchers: Community-Based Water Quality Monitoring and Chemistry Education in Dunedin
Andrew Innes, Steven A. Rusak, Barrie M. Peake and David S. Warren
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Hot Chemistry from Horopito
Nigel B. Perry and Kevin S. Gould
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Rotaxanes as Molecular Machines – The Work of Professor David Leigh
Anthea Blackburn
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Hydrated Complexes in Earth’s Atmosphere
Anna L. Garden and Henrik G. Kjaergaard
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Volume 74, No.3, July 2010

The Banwell Symposium: From Small Rings to Big Things
Russell J. Hewitt and Robert A. Keyzers
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On the Origin of the Dimeric Aplysinopsin Alkaloids
Emily M. Boyd and Jonathan Sperry
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Making Sense of N-Confused Porphyrins
Anna Młodzianowska and Penelope J. Brothers
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The Mechanism of Mutation Initiated by One-Electron
Oxidation
Jóhannes Reynisson
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Light Metals Research at the University of Auckland
J. Metson, P. Lavoie, L. Perander and R. Etzion
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Antioxidant Plastics based upon Conducting Polymers
Paul A. Kilmartin
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Volume 74, No.2, April 2010

The Development of Zwitterionic Second Order Nonlinear
Optical Organic Materials
M. Delower H. Bhuiyan and Andrew J. Kay
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The Ramberg-Bäcklund Reaction 70 Years On
Joanne E. Harvey and Mark J. Bartlett
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Colour Tuneable Photoluminescent Quantum Dots for Ink-Jet Printing of Security Documents and Labels
James H. Johnston, Aaron C. Small and Noel Clark
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Glycolipids and CD1: The Crossroad between Chemistry and Immunology
Ashna A. Khan, Janice M. H. Cheng, Bridget L. Stocker and Mattie S. M. Timmer
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The 2009 NZIC Presidential Address
Magic Metals: The Special Affinity of Transition Metals for
Hydrogen
John L. Spencer
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Volume 74, No.1, January 2010

What Are These Things Called MOFs?
Shane G. Telfer
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Controlling Molecular Excitons with Coordination Chemistry
Mark R. Waterland, Shane G. Telfer and Tracey M. McLean
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The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Brian Halton
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Unexpected Metabolites in Tobacco Genetically Modified to Accumulate Selenium
Adam J. Matich, Nigel I. Joyce, Marian J. McKenzie, David A. Brummell, Daryl D. Rowan
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Recent Advances in Labelling of DNA with Organic
Chromophores
Vyacheslav V. Filichev
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Volume 73, No.4, October 2009

The Taming of the Flu? Influenza and Oseltamivir Phosphate
Michael K. Edmonds
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21st Century Chemistry and the Promiscuity of the Sex
Hormone Receptors: An Overview
Lisa A. Graham
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Nanotechnology: An Answer to the World’s Water Crisis?
Alan Smith
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Showcasing Research at YOUR University – An International Trend
Cather Simpson
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Options for Assessing the Bioavailability of Metals to Soil
Dwelling Organisms
Sally Gaw
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More Bang for your Buck: An Introduction to CHNO Explosives
Christopher M. Fitchett
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Volume 73, No.3, July 2009

Penicillins: Their Chemical History and Legal Disputes in New Zealand
Jessica Christine Lai
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The Quest for Extreme Water Repellency: Superhydrophobicity Made Easy
Graham C. Saunders
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Witches, Horses and Dead Turkeys
Denis R. Lauren
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Cycloaurated Gold(III) Complexes – Possible Alternatives to Cisplatin?
Kelly J. Kilpin and William Henderson
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Fast GC-MS and Chemometrics: Exploring Complex Mixtures
Marlon M Reis,* Mariza G Reis, Michael Agnew, Peter Cross, Shane Leath
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Volume 73, No.2, April 2009

The Origins of Organic Contaminants in Antarctica
Jacob N.W. Howe and Kimberly J. Hageman
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The Oxidation of Red and White Wines and its Impact on Wine Aroma
Paul A. Kilmartin
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A Possible Candidate for the Fight against Alzheimer’s Disease
Aamir Mukadam, Katie Bourne and Warren P. Tate
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Environmental Aspects of the Disposal of Pharmaceuticals in New Zealand
Barrie M. Peake, and Rhiannon Braund
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Inhibitors of Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases: The Next Wave of Anti-Cancer Drugs?
Gordon W. Rewcastle and William A. Denny
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Nanotechnology in Good Health?*
Hilda Coulsey and Alan Smith
*Reproduced from Chemistry International 2009, 31, No. 1 with permission.
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Bringing Inquiry-Based Learning to the First-Year Laboratory: Experimenting with Conducting Polymers
David McMorran, Dave Warren and Richard Souness
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Volume 73, No.1, January 2009

Inhibitors of Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases: The Next Wave of Anti-Cancer Drugs?
Gordon W. Rewcastle and William A. Denny
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Twisting Fate: Ring Torsions and Photochemistry in Aryl-X=YAryl Systems (X,Y = P, C, N)
M. Cather Simpson, and John L. Payton
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Studying Interactions with Biological Membranes using Neutron
Scattering
Duncan J. McGillivray
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The Oxidation of Red and White Wines and its Impact on Wine Aroma
Paul A. Kilmartin
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Development of Low-Cost Ozone Measurement Instruments Suitable for Use in an Air Quality Monitoring Network
David E Williams, Geoff Henshaw, Brett Wells, George Ding, John Wagner, Bryon Wright, Yu Fai Yung, Jennifer Salmond
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From Small Rings to Big Things: Fruit Ripening, Floral Display and Cyclopropenes
Brian Halton
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The 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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Volume 72, No.4, October 2008

Letting Your Hair Down with Party Pills
Natasha Lucas, Paul S. Fitzmaurice and Thomas A. Bassindale
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From Small Rings to Big Things: Benzocyclobutenes and High Performance Polymers
Brian Halton
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Meat and Wool New Zealand Limited
Consortia Research
Kaylene Larking
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Some Traditional Colourants of Maori and other Cultures
Gerald Smith and Rangi Te Kanawa
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Supercritical Fluid Processing of Organic Compounds
Stephen J. Tallon and Owen J. Catchpole
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In Search of Biological Activity
Paul Teesdale-Spittle
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Synthesis and Applications of Nanoparticles and Quantum Dots
Richard D. Tilley
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Volume 72, No.3, July 2008

Enantioselective Radical Reactions and Organocatalysis
Gareth J Rowlands
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Deceit and Deception in Volatile Analysis*
Adam J. Matich, Daryl D. Rowan, and Catrin Guenther
*Dedicated to the memory of Dr. Cecil B. Johnson (1937-1998).
This article is the International Year of Planet Earth designated paper for this issue of Chemistry in New Zealand.
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Education for Sustainability: What Does This Mean for Tertiary Chemistry?
Janet Davies
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From the Lab to the Factory – Considerations for Synthetic Product Development
Ghislaine Cousins
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Chairing Scientific Meetings*
Roger Fenwick and Leiv K. Sydnes
*This article, originally published in Chemistry International, 2006, 2(5), 4-8, was brought to the editor’s attention by Professor Sydnes during his recent visit to NZ. It is reproduced here with his permission.
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Laboratory Education in New Zealand
Thomas Borrmann
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Volume 72, No.2, April 2008

Developing Site-Specific Guidelines for Orchard Soils Based on Bioaccessibility – Can It Be Done?
Sally Gaw, Nick Kim, Grant Northcott, Alistair Wilkins, and Gavin Robinson
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Medical Applications of SIFT-MS in New Zealand
Wan-Ping Hu and Malina Storer
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The Quantitation of Ochratoxin A in Foodstuffs Sold in New Zealand
Darren A. Saunders, Shirley Jones, and Rudolf Schmitt
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From Small Rings to Big Things: Xerography, Sensors, and the Squaraines
Brian Halton
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BestChoice: Interactive Web-Based Learning
Sheila Woodgate and David Titheridge
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MALDI-TOF Mass spectrometry of Cyanobacteria: a Global Approach to the Discovery of Novel Secondary Metabolites
Jonathan Puddick and Michèle R. Prinsep
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The 2007 Royal Society of Chemistry Australasian Lectureship Tour - Report
Prof. Peter Schwerdtfeger
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Protecting Cultural Heritage: Reflections on the Position of Science in
Multidisciplinary Approaches
Jan Wouters
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Volume 72, No.1, January 2008

A Cleaner and Greener New Zealand Thanks to 2,4,5-T, Science, and Silicones
J A Zabkiewicz
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Biomedicals from Bone
Michael R. Mucalo and Andrew J. Worth
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Do We Expect Too Much? Reflection on Chemistry Content in Higher Education
Richard K. Coll
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Fighting Food Fraud with Science
Bea Perks
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The 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Brian Halton
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Volume 71, No.3, October 2007

Climate Change Mythconceptions: Some Incorrect, Irrelevant and Misleading Arguments Made by Climate Change Denialists
Doug S. Mackie and Keith A. Hunter
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The 3-His Motif: A New Subset of Non-Heme Mono-Iron Enzymes
Seino A. K. Jongkees and Guy N. L. Jameson
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Australian Dust: From Uplift to Uptake
Doug S. Mackie and Keith A. Hunter
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Ocean Acidification and the Changing Carbonate Speciation in Seawater – Should We be Worried?
K I Currie and K A Hunter
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So Who Was Nobel Anyway?
Brian Halton
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Volume 71, No.2, July 2007

Volume 71, No.1, April 2007

Chemical Research in the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
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Soft Matter in the MacDiarmid Institute
Kathryn M. McGrath
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Recent Chemistry of Advanced Inorganic and Hybrid Materials at the MacDiarmid Institute
Kenneth J. D. MacKenzie
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The Chemical History of Anaesthesia
Joanna Wojnar
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Volume 70. No.3, October 2006

Structure Determination of New Algal Toxins using NMR Methods
Alistair L. Wilkins and Christopher O. Miles
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Faecal Sterols and Fluorescent Whiteners as Indicators of the Source of Faecal Contamination
Megan Devane, Darren Saunders and Brent Gilpin
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The Curious Case of Phosphate Solubility
Andrew J. Pratt
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Water Oxidation by Ruthenium Dimers
Matthew I. J. Polson
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Fluorinated Analogues of Biological Molecules: Accessing New Chemical, Physical and Biological Properties
Michael Edmonds and Victoria Peddie
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Drug Discovery in the New Millennium
Steven G. Aitken
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Volume 70, No.2, July 2006

Investigating Scientific Literacy: Scientists Habits of Mind as Evidenced by Their Rationale of Science and Religious Beliefs^†
Richard K. Coll, Mark C. Lay, and Neil Taylor
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^† a publication from the NZIC Chemical Education Special Interest Group

Optical Biosensors: Making Sense of Interactions
Harvey E. Indyk
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Nanotechnology - Does It Have a Sporting Chance?
Dr. Alan Smith
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The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
Brian Halton
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The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry: New Zealand Contributions
Patrick Holland
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Volume 70, No.1, April 2006

The Use and Limits of Compositional Analysis for Discrimination and Classification of Samples
Michelle M. Barton and Gordon M. Miskelly
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Transfer RNA as a Potential Building Block for Nanotechnology
Harold S. Bernhardt and Warren P. Tate
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Are Nanoparticles Safe?
Victoria Argyle and Brian Robinson
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Overtone Spectroscopy: A Sensitive Probe of Hydrogen Bonding
Henrik G. Kjaergaard and Daryl L. Howard
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¹⁴CO₂ in the Southern Hemisphere Atmosphere — the Rise and the Fall
K. Currie, G. Brailsford, S. Nichol, A. Gomez, K. Riedel, R. Sparks, and K. Lassey
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Volume 69, No.4, December 2005

Seeing Things in a New Light: Synchrotron Science and the Australian Synchrotron Project
J.B.Metson
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Cheminanotechnology: Nanotechnology for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Richard G. Haverkamp
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Chemistry and Chemical Ecology of some of the Common Opisthobranch Molluscs Found on the Shores of NE New Zealand
Tanja Grkovic, David R. Appleton, and Brent R. Copp
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Virtual Institute for Metrology in Chemistry: Cost Effective Traceability in Chemical and Biological Measurement
John Love and Laly Samuel
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The 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Brian Halton
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Volume 69, No.3, September 2005

The Chemistry of Post-bottling Sulfides in Wine
Dr. Alan Limmer
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What do Green Tea, Grapes Seeds, and Docks have in Common?
Lucy P. Meagher, Paul Spencer, Geoffrey A. Lane, Suba Sivakumaran, Karl Fraser
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Building Innovation through Geopolymer Technology
Catherine Nicholson, Ross Fletcher, Neville Miller, Clive Stirling, Jon Morris, Steve Hodges, Kenneth MacKenzie, and Martin Schmücker.
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The Halton Retirement Symposium
Brendan Burkett and Joanne Harvey
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