The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
18
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
117
Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
42
If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
114
Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
408
One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
20
A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
57
At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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