Its texture and chemistry set it apart from all previous objects picked up off the surface of Earth but known to originate on the Red Planet.

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They bought Brinker a chemistry set when he was 10.

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One was a kitchen chemistry set for growing crystals and the other a simple electronics kit, based partially around parts of a Snap Circuits set, that has kids building an electromagnet and lighting up an LED.

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Assuming you don't take your chemistry set to the deli, your best bet for finding beers of character and solid IBUs is still to explore labels from the historic lager heartland of Germany and the Czech Republic.

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The researchers twigged that this phenomenon could be used to measure density and, as they report in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, they set about this task by erecting a stack of two off-the-shelf neodymium magnets separated by a vertical vial of paramagnetic fluid.

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The Global Chemistry Experiment is a set of experiments developed by IUPAC and UNESCO for pupils of different ages to analyze the quality of water and learn how to treat their local water sources.

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The 150, 000 applicants each year must first pass exams in chemistry, physics and mathematics before they can sit for a second set of grueling analytical tests.

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