chemical
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MMA is a highly reactive chemical, a monomer that can be used to make polymers of hard, durable, lightweight and transparent plastics.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
Containment and recovery operations are under way after a chemical tank in Longview, Wash., collapsed, leaving one person dead and nine missing.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
A failing tank holding 7,000 gallons of a highly reactive chemical at a Garden Grove aerospace plant forced 50,000 evacuations and nearly triggered a catastrophic explosion.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
The tank failure in Longview, located in Cowlitz County about 130 miles south of Seattle, was the second notable incident involving a chemical tank at an industrial site in recent days.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
To the biochemist Phoebus Levene, one of Avery’s colleagues at Rockefeller University, the comically plain chemical composition of DNA—four bases strung along a chain—suggested an extremely “unsophisticated” structure.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing chemical
Matter and Energy 1: Atoms and Molecules
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Chemical Reactions - Introductory
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"Handle with Care"
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