Many people are not afraid of driving but are afraid of the chemicals. There is a simple reason for this: they have learnt the manoeuvres required to drive a car at driving school and usually have many years of experience with them. They understand the relationships and have them under control. Not so with chemistry. In many cases, the relationships in chemistry are unknown.

One of the main aims of the Senior Expert Chemists is to explain chemical relationships to a wide audience in an easily understandable way. The Public Relations working group has taken on this task. Senior experts have compiled topics from chemistry that are suitable for columns in newspapers.

Under the leadership of Dr Ursula Kraska, these articles are edited and offered to individual daily newspapers for publication. Under the motto: "From chemistry: what you know, what you should know", the articles are available in a standardised form, naturally machine-readable and therefore editable. If you are interested, please contact Dr Kraska (phone 06150-3353).

Currently, texts for columns can be offered on the following topics:

Adrenaline Alcohols Amino acids Ammonia Beta-Carotene Cadmium Cellulose Chinine Citric acid Dioxin Acetic acid Hydrofluoric acid Gelatine

Glycols Gold Urea Insulin Iodine Carbon Lactose Magnesium Methionine Sodium chloride Soda lye Nylon Ozone

Polyester Mercury Ruby Sulphuric acid Selenium Rare earth metals Silicon dioxide Nitrogen Thorium Uranium Vanillin Vitamin B12 Sugar

The Cellesche Zeitung and the Mittelbayerische Zeitung have previously published abridged versions of the Senior Expert Chemists' columns. These column texts are also prepared for the GDCh platform for the public "Fascination Chemistry" in the section "Chemistry everywhere".

Are you interested in explaining your knowledge in an understandable way to the readers of newspapers? Dr Kraska is looking forward to your suggestions.