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Luo Han Guo originally grew as a wild fruit, but it is assumed that this fruit has been used for well over a thousand year. It is shown on the record that monks from the Sian-Fong temple knew how to harvest the fruit. Luo Han Guo has been used in
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American physician Arthur E. Smith developed the first disposable syringe in 1949, using glass, according to the article "Needle Trade" written by Jackie Rosenhek and published in "Doctor's Review" in March 2009.
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In 1940, Astatine was discovered by a group of scientists. These scientists were Emilio Gino Segre, Dale R. Corson, and KR MacKenzie. The name comes from the Greek word meaning unstable.
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Nobelium was actually discovered by a group of four scientists in 1958. They were working at Berkeley. There names are A.Ghiorso, T.Sikkeland, G.T. Seaborg. and J.R.Walton. To find more information click here: http://www.corrosionsource.com/handbook/
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Mammoth cave was said to be discovered by the Houchin family in 1797. The exact family member who discovered the cave entrance is not really known. It is most likely Francis Houchin. You can find more information here: http://www.shannontech.com/
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This common idea is not true. In 1956, before CFC's were widely used, the now famous scientist, Dobson, measured ozone over Antarctica and found about 20% less than he had expected. The levels he saw back then were 4-5 times more than what is
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I don't know that a single person discovered space weather, but Lou Lanzerotti has been very active in saying we should think of space weather.
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Methane was discovered between 1776 and 1778 by Alessandro Volta. This began to come to fruition as he studied marsh gases that came from Lake Maggiore.You can find more information here: http://en.wikipedia.
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Chemist Rutherford discovered the Atom and sub atomic particles. He bombarded gamma rays on thin sheet of Gold and noticed readings to prove existance of them. However they were named later.
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To understand how particles nearly three times the size of ribosomes, present in thousands of copies per cell, could have gone undetected until just a few years ago, one must consider that conventional stains for EM, such as the heavy metal salts
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