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https://www.elskedoets.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Met-Merel-op-zakenreis-in-Amerika-4-1024x768.jpg1024768“Chemistry, it’s all about chemistry you know. Molecules are everywhere: nature, the animals, the body: it’s life.” There was no stopping now. I’m not talking about the taxi that we were riding with. Unstoppable was our cab driver Dimitri once he got talking about chemistry. He was attending college in America and dreamt of becoming…