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Highly flammable & once used for photographic film, it was the first commercial synthetic plastic

Emeralds & aquamarines are forms of this mineral

Dmitry Mendeleyev & Julius Meyer independently proposed a principle that led to this table

Brimstone is another name for this light yellow nonmetallic element

It's the branch of chemistry that studies compounds containing carbon

Chemists use this whirling device to separate solids from liquids or one liquid from another

It's 1 or 2 or more atoms of the same element that differ in atomic weight

The Columbia, one of these between Valdez & Anchorage, Alaska can move about 65 feet per day

In 1909 Dutch botanist Wilhelm Johannsen first proposed this name for the unit of heredity in living things

The largest living reptile is probably the saltwater species of this animal, which may weigh more than a ton