Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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