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The powerful, unstable explosive found in children's toys
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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The cap guns that kids use and poppers that they throw at the ground aren't just annoying. They contain one of the most unstable diy compounds that anyone could lose a hand to. The worrying concoction, called Armstrong's mixture, is one of the
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Luminol makes pennies glow (but not for the reason you think)
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
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Luminol got famous on TV for uncovering both crimes and poorly sanitized hotel rooms, but it can be made to glow for more innocent reactions. To set up the experiment, grab about 10 milligrams of powdered luminol and add 10 milliliters of a 10%
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Itch by Simon Mayo - review
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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PetrovaFossil Itchingham Lofte is a normal fourteen year old boy. Well, I say normal most boys his age collect football cards, or even stamps; Itch collects elements from the Periodic Table! From aluminium to calcium, oxygen to phosphorus, he has
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Stop giving chemicals a bad name, says Royal Institution Christmas lecturer
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
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Dr Peter Wothers delivers one of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. Photograph: Paul Wilkinson/BBC/Royal Institution/Paul Wilki The scientist who will give this year's Royal Institution Christmas lectures has hit out at misuse of the word "
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Carbon monoxide prompts evacuation of KCK daycare
Kansas City :: MO :: USA | 5 months ago
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Six children at a Kansas City, Kan., daycare were taken to a hospital for observation this afternoon after elevated levels of carbon monoxide were detected in the building.Twenty-one children and four adults were evacuated from the building at
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Prior to ICU deaths, oxygen supply firm cut s...
New Delhi :: India | 5 months ago
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Prior to ICU deaths, oxygen supply firm cut staff at Ambedkar Hospital '+google_ads[i].line2 +' '+google_ads[i].line3 + ' Private contractor installed gas pipeline systems at Lok Nayak, GTB and DDU hospitals The private contractor that had installed
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Take caution eating fish from Sweitzer Lake
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | 6 months ago
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Sweitzer Lake near Delta was built for public recreation, and during the summer, water sports, including fishing, are the order of the day. The lake, however, has elevated levels of selenium, and anglers are cautioned against eating the fish from the
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Electric generator that is operated by urine.
Lagos :: Nigeria | 6 months ago
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Four entrepreneurial teenagers from Nigeria have invented an electricity generator that is operated by urine. Fourteen-year-olds Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin, and 15-year-old Bello Eniola showed their creation at the Maker
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How many plants would you need to generate oxygen for yourself in an airlock?
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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We've learned that there are two problems with being in an airlock...In a ten by ten foot room, you should be fine for three days...The easiest way to keep yourself alive in an airlock would be to stock it with plants...This is a harder problem to
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How the Bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide in Your Bathroom Could Have Been Submarine Fuel [Secret History]
Berlin :: Germany | 7 months ago
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How the Bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide in Your Bathroom Could Have Been Submarine Fuel That little brown bottle that you have in your bathroom cabinet, the one that bubbles on cuts, once held the key to a revolutionary new form of submarine. This sub,
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