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Why start a Chemical engineering blog?

I started this blog site for chemical engineering students all over the globe, as I am one myself, to be fun and to ask the stupid questions as well as teaching myself as I work on the blog site.

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    Thank you Albert for the comment.

    The blog is still very new and I will put alot more effort into it as soon as my exams come to a end and thank you for the additional course information.

    Also very glad to see that people are actually reading my blog

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    Ruan Pretorius

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