The eight 'Noble metals' ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, osmium, iridium, platinum and gold do not rust.

t.Submitted by:
Richard

Chalk is
made of trillions of microscopic skeleton fossils ofplankton (a tiny sea creature.)Submitted by:
Sam - Los Angeles, California, United States

Tabletop "volcanoes" can be created using 'Vesuvian Fire' compound Ammonium dichromate.Submitted by: Emily (Awesome) - Helena,
Montana, United States

Just one atomic layer thick, the 'miracle material' Graphene is a better conductor of electricity and heat than any material.Submitted by: Vera - Sydney, Australia

A bucket full of water contains more atomsthan there are bucketfuls of water in the Atlantic Ocean.Submitted by: Megan
H - United States

Graphite can be transformed into

diamond by applying a temperature of 3000C and pressure of 100,000 atm.Submitted by: Hyde Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A rubber tire is actually one single giantmolecule.Submitted

by: Moi - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dynamite contains
peanuts as an ingredient.Submitted by:
Manaal - Dubai, United Arab

The coldest state of matter Bose-Einstein Condensatesuperfluid defies gravity and instead of flowing down, it flows upward.Submitted by: Moi - Toronto, Ontario,
Canada

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Talc is the softest known substance.Submitted by:

Laine - United States

The element Californium is often called the most expensive substance in the world (as much as $68 million for one gram.)Submitted by: Major Problem

Gallium is a metal which melts on palm of the hand, due to its low melting point (29.76 C).Submitted by:
Karanpal Singh - Amritsar, India

Aluminium is the most common metal in the Earth's crust (8 percent of its weight.)Submitted by: Moi - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Twenty percent of

Earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon forest.Submitted Unlike any other element,helium does not solidify.Submitted by:
Abhi - India by: Jassim - Salem, India

The noble gas Xenon lasers can cut through materials that are so tough even diamond tipped blades will not cut.Submitted by:
Josh Davies - Llanelli, Wales

Hot water freezes faster than cold water (the Mpembaeffect.)Submitted by: Moi Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Gold and Copper are the only Astatine is the rarest element on
Earth (approx 28g in the Earth's entire crust.)Submitted by: Shubhu - Rourkela, India The six states of matter are: Plasmas, Gases,Liquids, Solids, BoseEinstein Condensatesand Fermionic Condensates.Submitted by: Adarsh - Jamshedpur,
India & Amina Kunting - Antipolo, Philippines

two non-white metals.

The burning sensation we get from chilli peppers is because of a chemical called Capsaicin.Submitted by: Cam - England. The lighter was invented before the match (in 1816 by J.W. Dobereiner).Submitted by: Leah
Hopson - Denver, United States

Air becomes liquid at about minus 190

degrees Celsius. Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.

Each time lightning strikes, some Ozone gas is produced, thus strengthening the Ozone Layer in the Earth's atmosphere.

Honey does not spoil.Submitted

by: Ashalaya - Racine, Wisconsin, United States

Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be moulded with the hands. Water expands by about 10% as it freezes. It is estimated that a plastic container can resist decomposition for as long as 50,000years. If you slowly pour a handful of salt into a totally full glass of water it will not overflow. In fact, the water level will go down. Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance. Liquid air looks like water with a bluish tint.

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in

the Universe (75%). There's enough gold in the Earth's crust to cover the entire land surface knee-deep. An average adult body contains around 250g (1/2lb) of salt.

The metal with the highest melting point is tungsten, at 3410 degrees Celsius (6170F). One inch (2.5cm) of rain is equal to 10 inches (25cm) of snow.

Mosquitoes like the scent ofestrogen, hence, women get bitten by mosquitoes more often than men do. An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 80 km (50 mi) long. Natural gas has no odour. The smell is added artificially so that leaks can be detected.

Oxygen is the most abundant element in the Earth's crust, waters, and atmosphere (about
49.5%) The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter J. Hydrofluoric acid will dissolve glass. A bee sting is acidic and a wasp sting is alkali. To treat a sting by one of these you should use the opposite type of chemical. The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 'lead' pencils.

Quaoar was discovered in 2002. Roughly half the size of Pluto, Quaoar is classified as a "Kuiper Belt object". The Apollo program was a manned U.S. space program that eventually put 12 men on the Moon. The first Apollo mission to circle the Moon was Apollo 8,and the first to land was Apollo 11. Apollo 13 never landed because of an accident en route that required the

spacecraft to return to Earth after swinging around the far side of the Moon. The last Apollo mission to land on the Moon was Apollo 17. Becauseo of Pluto's irregular orbit, Neptune was actually the farthest planet from the Sun between 1978 and 1999. There are many theories about the birth of our solar system. The Tidal Theory(or Chamberlain-Moulton Theory) suggests that a passing star pulled dust and debris from the forming Sun, leaving a string of debris that eventually formed the planets. The planets make up only 0.135 % of the mass in our solar system. The Sun dominates, accounting for 99.86 % of the entire solar system's mass. DISTRIBUTION OF MASS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Object Sun Planets Satellites Comets Asteroids & Minor Planets Dust & Gases Percent of Mass 99.86 0.135 0.00004 ~0.00003 ~0.0000003 >0.0000001

Comets have three main parts: the nucleus, the coma, and the tail. The coma consists of gases and dust around the nucleus. Discovered by James Christy in 1978, Pluto's moon is named Charon. With a diameter of 1,172 kilometers (728 miles), Charon is just under half the size of Pluto. Due to this very small difference in size, some scientists consider Pluto and Charon to be a double planet. Mercury & Venus are the only planets in our solar system without moons. Saturn has the most moons, with more than twenty. Discovered by James Christy in 1978, Pluto's moon is named Charon. With a diameter of 1,172 kilometers (728 miles), Charon is just under half the size of Pluto. Due to this very small difference in size, some scientists consider Pluto and Charon to be a double planet. Comets have three main parts: the nucleus, the coma, and the tail. The coma consists of gases and dust around the nucleus.

1963 boasted the first woman in space: Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova inVostok 6 (U.S.S.R.). Syzygy is the condition when three celestial bodies are arranged in a straight line--as, for example, when the Sun, Moon, and Earth are aligned during solar and lunar eclipses. An anemometer is used to measure wind speed. The first mechanical anemometer was invented in 1450 by Italian artist and architect Leon Battista Alberti Nimbus means "rain" when added to a cloud's name. Atoms are most tightly packed in a solid. Austrian physicist Christian Johann Doppler (18031853) discovered that a wave's frequency changes when the source and observer are in motion relative to one another. This is known as the Doppler effect. The gestation period for an hippopotamus is 8 months. The mother will then go off by herself to have the 27-50 kg. baby which may be born either on land or underwater. The Richter Scale is logarithmic, which means that each successive whole number represents a 10-fold increase in power. Thus, an earthquake that measures 8 would be 10,000 times stronger than an earthquake that measures 4. In 2004, on the island of Flores in Indonesia, a team of Australian and Indonesian researchers discovered the remains of a hobbit-sized human,one that stood no more than a meter tall. Remarkable, these researchers determined that this new species of human lived as recently as 13,000 years ago, shattering the long-held belief that Homo sapiens have had the planet to themselves for the past 25,000 years. The idea of the atom was first introduced by Leucippus of Miletus around 450 B.C.. Leucippus and his pupil, Democritus, theorized that all matter was composed of atoms, or bits of matter too small to be

seen. The word "atom" comes from a Greek word, "atomos", meaning uncuttable, because Leucippus believed that atoms were the building blocks of all materials and therefore could not be broken down any further. In 1983, the first genetically engineered organism, a tobacco plant designed to be resistant to certain herbicides, was grown in Wisconson. Of these animals, the Freshwater Oyster has the longest recorded life span at 80 years. The longest recorded life span for a termite is 50 years; for a chimapanzee, 50 years; and for an Indian elephant, 70 years. A baby has more bones. As they grow, some of their bones fuse together. Atavism is an apparent "throwback" characteristic of an organism that reveals a trait of an earlier ancestor. Sperm Whales have the heaviest brain of any living animal. The average Sperm Whale's brain weighs more than 20 pounds (9 kilograms) which is about 4 times heavier than the average human brain. The Flu killed 43,000 American servicemen mobilized for World War I, representing nearly 40 percent of U.S. military casualties. Your kidneys filter fifty gallons of blood every day, producing about 1.5 liters of urine! Unlike most other fish, a shark has no bones! Its skeleton is made of cartilage, a material somewhat softer and more flexible than bone. Many plants and animals are capable of producing visible light. The scientific term for this phenomenon is bioluminescence. Oxygen is the most common element in the human body, making up almost 63% of the average human.
COMPOSITION OF THE HUMAN BODY

Boy:I broke up with her. His Best Friend:What happened? Boy:Shes just too much for me. His Best Friend:What makes you say that? What did she do wrong? Boy:Well, ...for one.. She only cared about her appearance. Always had to look good, always took forever to get dressed! So insecure.. His Best Friend:So, you broke her heart because she wanted to keep your eyes locked on her? She wanted you to see that you have the prettiest girl under your sleeve and not think otherwise? I see.. Boy:Oh.. Well.. Shed often call me or text me asking where I am, who Im with, telling me not to smoke, not to drink. Shes so clingy! His Best Friend:So, you broke her heart because she cares about your well being? Because she cares about you a lot? And her greatest fear is losing you. I see.. Boy:But.. Uhh.. Well, shed always cry when I say something slightly mean. She cant handle anything. Shes a crybaby! His Best Friend:So, you broke her heart because she has feelings? And because she just wanted to hear you say you love her? I see.. Boy:I.. Well! You know, shed get jealous easily. I could barely talk to other girls! Shes so annoying! I had to hide it from her. His Best Friend:So, you broke her heart because she just wanted you to commit to her? She thought you were faithful, but you lied so she could find out later and hurt even more? She just wanted the guy she loves the most to love only her. I see.. Boy:Well, she.. His Best Friend:You broke up with her because shes good for you? She just wanted the best for you? Shes broken now because you were selfish. Are you proud? Boy:I broke her heart.. Because I couldnt see what was happening.. What happened to me? His Best Friend:You lost the girl that loved you like no one else could. You see? You didnt want her when all she ever wanted was you. THATS what happened..

Element Oxygen Carbon Hydrogen Nitrogen Sulfur Phosphorus Other

Percentage of Human Body 62.81 19.37 9.31 5.14 0.64 0.63 2.10