Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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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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Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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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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