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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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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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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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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