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...search of human skulls--highly prized as room ornaments. As a chemical laboratory it was the scene of a near tragedy when Charles William Eliot, then an undergraduate, touched off an explosive mixture in an iron kettle. The explosion shattered the kettle and a large fragment almost struck the chemist...
...great 18th-Century British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish (discoverer of nitric acid, the chemical composition of water, etc.) was so unsociable that he "was known to flee from a company of strangers uttering a queer cry like a frightened animal"; he was also so unworldly that when asked for a handout for a sick employe, he offered...
...great chemist August Kekulé discovered the theory of the benzene ring in a dream about snakes, in which one of the snakes seized its own tail and the image whirled scornfully before his eyes...
Home drying of food costs almost a third less than canning. According to University of Tennessee's Chemist G. A. Shuey, properly dried foods keep most of their food elements and a good part of the vitamins, except vitamin...
...grey-eyed, thin, inquisitorial, cold, churchwarden, town councilor, Home Guardsman, petty grafter, a tyrant to his young and pretty wife; Renata, 38, brown-haired, self-seeking, moodily vengeful; Ransom, pickpocket, fugitive, a World War I veteran recovering his self-respect in the Battle of Britain; Mannheim, a German refugee chemist, possibly a spy, square, dark, smuggled out of Germany...