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1
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When was the first Solvay Conference?

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24-27 October 1927

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When did Max Planck propose the quantum?

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1900

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When did Werner Heisenberg propose the uncertainty principle?

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1927

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4
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When did Newton split up light into its component colours?

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1666

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5
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When did William Herschel discover IR radiation using a mercury thermometer?

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1800

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When did Johann Ritter discover UV radiation with silver nitrate?

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1801

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7
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When was Wien’s displacement law proposed?

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1893

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8
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Who discovered Boltzmann’s constant and named it after Boltzmann?

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Max Planck

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9
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When was the photoelectric effect published?

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17th March 1905

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10
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When did Einstein get the Nobel Prize for the photoelectric effect?

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1921

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11
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In which year did Newton die?

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1727

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12
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In which year was James Clerk Maxwell born?

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1831

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In which year did Oersted discover that current deflects a compass?

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1819

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14
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In which year did Faraday show that electricity and magnetism were the same thing?

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1864

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15
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Who first discovered the photoelectric effect?

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Heinrich Hertz

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16
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When did J J Thomson introduce the plum-pudding model?

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1903

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17
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In which year did Bohr introduce the quantum to the atom?

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1913

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18
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When did Rutherford and Soddy discover transmutation in Montreal?

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1910

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19
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When did Rutherford and Geiger confirm that alpha particles were helium nuclei?

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1908

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20
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When did Rutherford propose the nuclear model?

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March 1911

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21
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When did Frederick Soddy propose isotopes?

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1910

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22
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Who discovered that the periodic table should be ordered by Z not A?

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Neil’s Bohr

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23
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Who suggested that angular momenta of electrons were in units of h bar?

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Nicholson

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24
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In which year does Rutherford move to Cambridge to replace Thomson as director of the Cavendish Lab?

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1919

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When do Planck and Nernst travel to Zurich to convince Einstein to come to Berlin?

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1913

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26
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When was the German manifesto to the cultured world?

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4th October 1914

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27
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When does Einstein complete General Relativity?

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1915

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28
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When did Einstein suggest stimulated emission?

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1916

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29
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When was the Principe expedition?

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February 1919

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30
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When did Bohr publish a book to reconstruct the entire periodic table?

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March 1922

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31
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When did Compton confirm quantisation of x-rays by scattering

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1923

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32
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When did Compton receive the Nobel Prize for the scattering of x-rays?

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1927

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33
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When was de Broglie’s wave-particle duality paper published?

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1923

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34
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When did Davisson and Germer provide evidence of electron diffraction?

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January 1927

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35
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When was the electron microscope invented?

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1931

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36
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When did Davisson and George Thomson get the Nobel Prize for showing that electrons behave as waves?

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1937

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37
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When did J J Tomson get the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the electron?

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1906

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38
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When did Max von Laue confirm that x-rays were short wave em waves?

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1912

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39
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When did von Laue get the Nobel Prize for diffraction of x-rays?

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1914

40
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When did Wolfgang Pauli publish the exclusion principle?

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1925

41
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When did Pauli receive the Nobel Prize for the exclusion principle?

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1945

42
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When did Heisenberg abandon the idea of electrons orbiting the nucleus?

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April 1942

43
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When did Heisenberg travel to Helgoland to develop a matrix approach to the quantum?

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June 1925

44
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When did Pauli reproduce the line spectrum of hydrogen using matrices.

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November 1925

45
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When did Schrodinger publish his version of quantum mechanics and his wave equation?

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January 1926

46
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When did Heisenberg use wave mechanics to account for the line spectrum of hydrogen?

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July 1926

47
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When did Heisenberg interrupt Schrodinger at a lecture in Munich?

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23rd July 1926

48
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When did Schrodinger and Bohr argue over quantum jumps?

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October 1926

49
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When did Einstein write to Born and make the “God dies not play dice” statement?

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December 1926

50
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When was Paul Dirac appointed Lucasian Professor of Maths at Cambridge?

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1932

51
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When was the 6th Solvay Conference?

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1930

52
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When did James Chadwick discover the neutron at Cambridge?

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1932

53
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When did Cockcroft and Walton construct the first particle accelerator at Cambridge?

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1932

54
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When did Schrodinger write to Einstein about the famous cat?

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December 1935

55
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When did Einstein write to Roosevelt about developing an atomic bomb?

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2nd August 1939

56
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When did Einstein become an American citizen?

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1940

57
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When was Plancks son hanged, suspected of plotting against Hitler?

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February 1945

58
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When did Einstein die?

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18th April 1955

59
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When did Bohr die?

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18th November 1962

60
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In which year does Murry Gell-Mann predict quarks?

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1964

61
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In which year do Penzias and Wilson detect the cosmic background radiation?

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1964

62
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In which year does John Stewart Bell produce his theorem on quantum mechanics?

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1964

63
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In which year did Bell get his physics degree from Queen’s?

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1948

64
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In which year was John Stewart Bell born in Belfast?

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1928

65
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In which year did physicists use Bell’s work to prove Bohr right and Einstein wrong?

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1981

66
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In which year did Bell die?

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1990

67
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In which year did physicists manage to teleport a particle?

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1997

68
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When was evidence for the Higgs boson announced?

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4th July 2012

69
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What is the mass of the Higgs boson?

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125GeV

70
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What were the first coins made from?

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Gold and silver (electrum)

71
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When did Fritz Haber get the Nobel Prize for synthesising ammonia?

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1920

72
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What is aqua regia, which alchemists discovered could dissolve gold?

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A mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid.

73
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When did Menghini discover iron in the blood using a magnet?

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1745

74
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When was the spectroscope invented?

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1859

75
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When was it discovered that coal and iron could make steel?

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1747

76
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Who discovered the inert gases?

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William Ramsey

77
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Who first reported atomic fission?

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Ottoman Hahn in Nazi Berlin.

78
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When was the first version of the Periodic Table published by Mendeleev?

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1869

79
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When did Mendeleev die?

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1907

80
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What did sulphur used to be known as?

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Brimstone

81
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What is thought to be the world’s smelliest molecule?

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Methyl mercaptan

82
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When did Henning Brand discover phosphorus?

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1669

83
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When was chlorine gas first used as a weapon?

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1915

84
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When did Scheele isolate chlorine?

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1774

85
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What did hydrochloric acid used to be known as?

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Muriatic acid after muria, the Latin for brine.

86
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What is saltpetre?

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A nitrate of sodium or potassium

87
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When did Bernard Courtois discover iodine?

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1811

88
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When did Joseph Prierly identify fixed air (carbon dioxide)?

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1767

89
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When did Lavoisier publish a paper suggesting that metals gain weight when they rust?

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1773

90
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When did Henry Cavendish discover hydrogen and knew that water was hydrogen plus something else?

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1766

91
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When was Lavoisier beheaded?

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5th May 1794

92
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When did Alessandro Volt make the first battery from copper and zinc?

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1800

93
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When did Pierre and Marie Curie isolate Polonium and Radium?

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Polonium 1898
Radium 1902

94
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When was the first New Jersey Radium girl court case?

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1925

95
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When did Marie Curie die?

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1934

96
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What is the wavelength of the orange glow of sodium street lamps?

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589nm

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