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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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