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In the Spotlight	Tue, Aug  15,  2000
U.S. Golden Dollar There are many golden coins being minted and circulated, the U.S. Golden Dollar and several denominations of the Euro among them. At gold's current price, authentic gold coins would be mighty small in size. Metal alloys are larger and cheaper.
Semiochemistry Moths are not only attracted to flames. They and other insects (and, indeed, other animals and plants) all elaborate semiochemicals that attract friends and, when circumstances warrant such, alert comrades. HMX and RDX Military dynamite, plastic explosives, and atomic bombs make use of the explosive power of these compounds. Industry and wartime applications rely upon their extremely high detonation velocities and pressures.	Did You Know? How large a virus would appear if our solar system stretches in size to that of the Milky Way? JavaScript Length Comparator

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Periodic Table of the Elements
Click on an element and discover its history, sources, properties, atomic configuration, compounds, uses, isotopes and handling. Get to know the full names of the elements and their symbols.

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On-screen conversions of English/metric units. Length (meters, feet, miles ..), Mass (grams, pounds, tons ..), Pressure (pascals, pounds/sq in, atmospheres ..), Temperature (Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin), Volume (liters, cubic feet, quarts ..)

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Chemical composition of common items such as coins, glass, metal alloys, and recyclable (and non-recyclable) plastics. Also: the sun, earth, clouds and air.

Poison List
Just how poisonous is that snakebite, or that pesticide stored in the garage, or, more seriously, those components of chemical and biological warfare agents? Both naturally occurring and synthetic materials presented.

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JavaScript Magnitude Calculators
How small would a housefly become when you shrink to the size of a virus? Or, what's the mass of a mouse in a world where you are the mass of Mount Everest? Try these proportionality calculators.

Chemical Structures Archive
Complete list of those molecules discussed and illustrated within this Web site. Contains toxins, drugs, enzyme substrates and other interesting compounds from bacteria, plants and animals.

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All articles featured on this site were written by Alan Bruzel. My subject areas include: molecules either organic or inorganic, concepts either well known or provisional, and chemical tidbits either ordinary or arcane.