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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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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