The natural world is a tapestry of known, new and yet to be discovered chemicals.

The smallest living things, microbes, land and sea plants, sea animals and minerals from the ground are sources of new families of compounds with useful properties. These lead to treatments for diseases, substances which are light yet immensely strong and materials which efficiently transmit electricity and communication signals for broadband and other uses.

'Nature's chemical diversity' explores how chemists find new compounds with useful properties in land and sea plants, sea animals and minerals from the ground. Two of the topics relate to mining, with the one about bauxite being specifically about WA.

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