The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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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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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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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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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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