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Workshop to be held on ‘radio chemistry’

VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Loyola College will organise a two-day national-level workshop on ‘radio chemistry’ from Friday. The workshop is being organised in partnership with the Indian Association of Nuclear Chemists and Allied Chemists.

Addressing a press conference here, college principal A. Francis Xavier said that the workshop was aimed at training the teachers and students in modern trends in radio chemistry.

Scientists from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Kalpakkam, would demonstrate the radio activity and determination of half life period of radioisotope, and half value thickness of lead.

They would bring Geiger-Muller (GM) counter instrument for the demonstration.

College vice-principal Rex Angelo said that the workshop was the first of its kind in the State.

It was to create awareness about nuclear chemistry among the students and impress upon them that they too could win laurels like the Indian-born scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan by winning the Nobel Prize, he said.

Department of Chemistry head B.V. Rao said that lecturers and students from colleges in the city, Tenali, Guntur, Visakhapatnam and other places would be attending the workshop. It would have limited entry. About 200 people, 100 each day, would be accommodated for following the deliberations and demonstrations, he said.

Faculty member Y.H. Rao, D.B.K. Kumar and others also spoke.

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