Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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