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  2. Wax - Wikipedia

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    Wax candle. Waxes such as paraffin wax or beeswax, and hard fats such as tallow are used to make candles, used for lighting and decoration. Another fuel type used in candle manufacturing includes soy. Soy wax is made by the hydrogenation process using soybean oil.

  3. Gilbert N. Lewis - Wikipedia

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    Gilbert Newton Lewis ForMemRS [1] (October 23 [2] [3] [4] or October 25, 1875 – March 23, 1946) [1] [5] [6] was an American physical chemist and a dean of the college of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley.

  4. History of chemistry - Wikipedia

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    The earliest gold metallurgy is known from the Varna culture in Bulgaria, dating from c. 4600 BC. [6] Silver, copper, tin and meteoric iron can also be found native, allowing a limited amount of metalworking in ancient cultures. [7] Egyptian weapons made from meteoric iron in about 3000 BC were highly prized as "daggers from Heaven". [8]

  5. Metallic bonding - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, plasmons are hard to excite on a bulk metal. This is why gold and copper look like lustrous metals albeit with a dash of color. However, in colloidal gold the metallic bonding is confined to a tiny metallic particle, which prevents the oscillation wave of the plasmon from 'running away'. The momentum selection rule is therefore ...

  6. History of molecular theory - Wikipedia

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    Lewis-type Chemical bond. In Lewis' own words: An electron may form a part of the shell of two different atoms and cannot be said to belong to either one exclusively. Moreover, he proposed that an atom tended to form an ion by gaining or losing the number of electrons needed to complete a cube.

  7. Discovery of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    The earliest gold artifacts were discovered at the site of Wadi Qana in the Levant. [11] Recognised as an element by Guyton de Morveau, Lavoisier, Berthollet, and Fourcroy in 1787. [1] 47 Silver: Before 5000 BC ca. 4000 BC Asia Minor: Asia Minor: Estimated to have been discovered in Asia Minor shortly after copper and gold.

  8. Metals of antiquity - Wikipedia

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    The earliest gold artifacts were discovered at the site of Wadi Qana in the Levant. [13] Silver is estimated to have been discovered in Asia Minor shortly after copper and gold. [14] There is evidence that iron was known from before 5000 BC. [15] The oldest known iron objects used by humans are some beads of meteoric iron, made in Egypt in ...

  9. History of candle making - Wikipedia

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    Candle moulding machine in Indonesia circa 1920. Candle making was developed independently in a number of countries around the world. [1]Candles were primarily made from tallow and beeswax in Europe from the Roman period until the modern era, when spermaceti (from sperm whales) was used in the 18th and 19th centuries, [2] and purified animal fats and paraffin wax since the 19th century. [1]