24 days of Chemistry facts and stuff!

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FACT FIFTEEN:
Fish scales are a common lipstick ingredient!

Day 15 of Compound Chem calendar:
https://www.compoundchem.com/2018advent/2018advent15/
(Today's people: Ida Noddack, Gerty Cori, and Kathleen Londsdale!)

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FACT SIXTEEN:
Unlike most substances, water expands when you freeze it!

Day 16 of Compound Chem calendar:
https://www.compoundchem.com/2018advent/2018advent16/
(Looks at: Percy Julian, Wallace Carothers, and Linus Pauling)

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FACT SEVENTEEN:
Liquid Nitrogen boils at 77K (-196 degrees Celsius)

Day 17 of Compound Chem calendar:
https://www.compoundchem.com/2018advent/2018advent17/
(Looks at: Asima Chatterjee, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Glenn Seaborg)

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FACT EIGHTEEN:
There's enough carbon in the average human body to provide graphite for about 9000 pencils!

Day 18 of Compound Chem calendar:
https://www.compoundchem.com/2018advent/2018advent18/
(Today: Rosalind Frankin, Mildred Cohn, Edith Flanigen (the last of which is still alive!) )

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FACT NINETEEN:
One ingredient in dynamite is peanuts!

Day 19 of Compound Chem calendar:
https://www.compoundchem.com/2018advent/2018advent19/
(Explores: Stephanie Kwolek and Robert Burns Woodward)

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FACT TWENTY:
Capsaicin is the molecule responsible for the heat you feel when eating a chilli! While the molecule acts as an irritant to mammals (including humans), birds lack the receptor responsible for the effect and are immune to the burning sensation from exposure.

Day 20 of Compound Chem calendar:
https://www.compoundchem.com/2018advent/2018advent20/
(Today's people: Gertrude Elion, Mario Molina, and Barbara Askins (the last two are still around presently!))

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FACT TWENTY ONE:
Talc is the softest known substance!

Day 21 of Compound Chem calendar:
https://www.compoundchem.com/2018advent/2018advent21/
(Looks at: John B. Goodenough (yes, that's his name!), Tu Youyou, and Harry Kroto! )

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FACT TWENTY TWO:
If you expose a glass of water to space, it doesn’t freeze; it boils. The water vapor would, however, turn into ice soon afterward.

Day 22 of Compound Chem calendar:
https://www.compoundchem.com/2018advent/2018advent22/
(Looks at: Jacqueline Barton, Frances Arnold, and Sumio Iijama!)

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FACT TWENTY THREE:
Coca-Cola originally contained Cocaine, hence it's name!

Day 23 of Compound Chem calendar:
https://www.compoundchem.com/2018advent/2018advent23/
(Today's people: Ada Yonath, Pratibha Gai, and Andre Geim! )

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FACT TWENTY FOUR:
The Amazon rainforest produces about 20% of the Oxygen in the atmosphere!

Day 24 of Compound Chem calendar:
https://www.compoundchem.com/2018advent/2018advent24/
(Explores: Jennifer Doudna and Yuri Oganessian )

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