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    towns of northern Chile". Washington Post. Retrieved 27 May 2019. S. H. Baekeland "Några sidor af den kemiska industrien" (1914) Svensk Kemisk Tidskrift...
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    around iron all my life ever since I was a kid. I was born and raised in iron ore country, where you could breathe it and smell it every day. Gates appeal...
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    synthetic plastic was Bakelite, invented in New York in 1907, by Leo Baekeland, who coined the term "plastics". Dozens of different types of plastics...
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    plan, codenamed Operation Wilfred, to mine Norwegian waters and stop iron ore shipments from Narvik to Germany. Due to disagreements, Wilfred was delayed...
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    the world together: my father Walter Reuther, the liberal warrior. Lake Orion, Mich.: LivingForce Pub. pp. 383. ISBN 9780975379219. OCLC 57172289. Halberstam...
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    Option: Behind the Scenes Diplomacy Between Dimona and Washington, (Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press, 2005), p. 44 Cohen, Avner (3 May 2019). "How a Standoff...
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    Brownian motion in a way that definitively proved atomic theory. Leo Baekeland invented bakelite, one of the first commercially successful plastics....
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    ISSN 0024-3019. Retrieved 15 Mar 2010. Miller, Jay (1988). The X-Planes. New York: Orion Books. pp. 43, 128–9. Aldrin, Buzz; McConnell, Malcolm (1989). Men from...
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    (1967)] Science of education and the psychology of the child (New York: Orion Press, 1970) [Psychologie et pédagogie (1969)]. Intellectual evolution from...
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    motion in a way that definitively proves atomic theory. 1907 Leo Hendrik Baekeland invents bakelite, one of the first commercially successful plastics. 1909...
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    walls. Later architects designed the church to project the constellation Orion. The High Court of Justice, Chandigarh (1951–1956) Secretariat Building...
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    Navarro-Valls, Joaquin (2 April 2005). Il Santo Padre è deceduto questa sera alle ore 21.37 nel Suo appartamento privato [The Holy Father passed away at 9:37 this...
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    with synthetic resins made by Leo Baekeland, for whom Bakelite was later to be named. Originally intended by Baekeland for a synthetic varnish, the new...
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    Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor. Britain: Orion Business. ISBN 978-0-7528-2090-3. Berners-Lee, T. (2010). "Long Live the...
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    the world together : my father Walter Reuther, the liberal warrior. Lake Orion, Mich.: LivingForce Pub. p. 63. ISBN 978-0975379219. OCLC 57172289. "Ford...
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  • Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873) February 23 – Leo Baekeland, Belgian-born American chemist (b. 1863) February 24 – Fanny Clar, French...
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    airbases around Chu Lai and Da Nang, later to take on most of the fight as "[m]ore and more American troops were put in to replace Saigon troops who could not...
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  • flight of a rotary-wing aircraft is carried out by Paul Cornu. 1907: Leo Baekeland invents bakelite, the first plastic made from synthetic components. 1907:...
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  • journal. Guest speakers included important international figures like Leo Baekeland, Carl Duisberg, and Jōkichi Takamine.: 11  In 1904, the New York Section...
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  • – Backus–Naur form Karl Baedeker, German business man – Baedeker Leo Baekeland, Belgian inventor – Bakelite William Baffin, British explorer – Baffin...
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    "Leo Hendrik Baekeland". Science History Institute. June 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2018. Bowden, Mary Ellen (1997). "Leo Hendrik Baekeland". Chemical achievers :...
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    invented methods of refining California gold that involved combining the ore with zinc, and the two men agreed to combine their inventions into a single...
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    Genth was first to describe and characterize a number of new minerals, often ores of tellurium. Among those still recognized today are: melonite, calaverite...
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    as expert witness in many court cases involving poisoning, value of iron ore, pollution of river water and other chemical questions.  This article incorporates...
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    Turkey, for Turkey's government, and he discovered deposits of coal, chrome ore, and the famous emery deposits of Naxos. In Turkey he discovered liebigite...
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    Search for Circularly Polarized Infrared Radiation from the OMC-1 Region of Orion." Astrophys. J. 2005, 624, 821–826 Breslow, Ronald (2011). "The origin of...
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  • the US Bureau of Mines, concerned with extraction of radium from carnotite ore. He subsequently studied the chemical effects of radiation, including on...
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