Monday, 30 January 2012

chemistry

  • A pure element can take many forms. For example, diamond and graphite both are forms of pure carbon
  • The human body contains enough carbon to provide 'lead'  for about 9,000 pencils.
  • The only two non-silvery metals are gold and copper.
  • The IUPAC name for water, H2O, is dihydrogen monoxide.
  • Although you may consider gold to be rare, there is enough gold in the Earth's crust to cover the land surface of the planet knee-deep.

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