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Jai Ganesh

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Chemical Quotes - I

Chemical Quotes - I

1. I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. - Antoine Lavoisier

2. Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best. - Jeff Bezos

3. Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms. - Karl Landsteiner

4. In chemical terms, radium differs little from barium; the salts of these two elements are isomorphic, while those of radium are usually less soluble than the barium salts. - Marie Curie

5. The Green Revolution was criticised by social activists on the ground that the high-yield technology involving the use of mineral fertilizers and chemical pesticides is environmentally harmful. - M. S. Swaminathan

6. We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched. - David Suzuki

7. Nobody had anticipated that chemicals was the direction in which Reliance was headed. I did chemical engineering because it was supposed to be the future. - Mukesh Ambani

8. In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? - Humphry Davy.

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