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Houston
Joined January 2012
In Chinese, every chemical element has a one-character name.
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Using Mathematica to visualize molecules ChemicalData["Creatine", "StructureDiagram"]
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Hereafter, when they come to model heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield the The mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances, how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o’er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. Paradise Lost, Book VIII
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New Unicode symbols for asteroids
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Periodic table by Franklin Hyde
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"After the alphabet and the tables of multiplication, nothing has proved quite so useful in my professional life as these six little expressions." J. P. Den Hartog in the preface to his book Strength of Materials
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