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C.R.T. is an instrument that showed that there was an invisible force, electrons, that exist in our world and by using magnets you could bend that force.
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We humans have always breath air but one chemist wanted to know more. What is air made of and how to study it.
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Discovering Oxygen
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Upon the discovery of oxygen, chemists wanted to know all about it. So they study it in every way and perfecting their studying habits.
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New Air Oxygen
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Chemist August Kekule created a written model to visualize the chemical structure of atoms.
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Ring Link Atoms
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The discovery of the periodic table gave scientist a way to teach the element so that students could understand it better.
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Periodic Table
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The discovery of radiation, a big break through, found uses for them all over world and out of this world. Be careful though radiation can kill.
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Radioactive Uses
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In 1846 Vienna, childbed fever ran rampant causing death among many pregnant patients. Consequently, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis began an experiment where his doctors washed their hands resulting in a decrease of patient death thus leading to Germ Theory.
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Germ Theory
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Einstein's study of relativity lead to the now famous equation e=mc squared.
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E=MC2
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After the discovery of atoms chemist discovered that atoms only combined in a certain way.
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Combining Atoms
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Darwin's extensive studies in the Galapagos Islands lead to his theory of natural selection, adaptation, and extinction.
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Natural Selection
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The discovery that every atom, when burned, has a different color. Scientist could now know what was in a subject by the color it burned.
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Atoms Signature Light
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Chemists wanted to understand the atom. How it is made and how it interacts with other atoms.
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Electrons Form Bonds
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The discovery of atoms and their atomic weight. A break through in chemistry giving scientist a written form of elements and their relationship with each other.
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Atomic Weight
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Electricity was the new fire of its day and scientist of all kinds were finding out ways to use it.
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Electricity Transforms
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With his construction of his own microscope, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered microorganisms, namely the protozoa, which are single celled pond organisms. Because of his work, he is considered the first microbiologist.
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Microorganisms
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Plastics was a great discovery, chemist could now reproduce products with better quality with minimal in pack to the earth.
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The discovery of these extinct giants have changed science forever
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Extinction of the Dinosaurs
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Pasteur discovered how to "pasteurize" to keep things germ free.
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Germ Theory Origins
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The discovery that a healthy diet with the necessary vitamins prevented many diseases without really that much effort.
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The Discovery of Vitamins
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While aboard the HMS Beagle Charles Darwin would begin to fully realize his theories
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Stanley Miller, conducted experiments in his lab to try to create the conditions that may have started life on earth
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Origin of Life
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The underground intense heat that powers old faithful, is akin to the type of conditions that according to scientists may have began life
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Yellowstone's underground Volcano
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Diabetes would still take countless lives if it weren't for this unique drug.
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The Invention of Insulin
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Vaccinations were the first practice in medical history that humans had personally intervened with in the disease process.
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The Beginning of Vaccination
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Cancer cells may already be inside us on the cellular level, just waiting to be activated.
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When Researchers discovered these underwater marvels they were even more astonished to find life living among the 700 degree temperatures
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Hydrothermal Vents
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In 1974 Paleontologists discovered the most fully intact hominid to date, and they named her Lucy
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Opabinia, one of the underwater creatures discovered in the Burgess Shale, having five eyes and a trunk like appendage was unlike any animal today
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Charles Walcott accidentally stumbled across this historical find that after fully executed contained over 65,000 specimens
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Burgess Shale Discovery
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Created by a miles long Meteor, the KT Boundary marks the end of the Dinosaurs
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Early in the eighteenth century scientists first began to classify animals.
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Classification of Species
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Penicillin was one of medical sciences biggest breakthroughs.
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The Discovery of Penicillin
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