From 1898-1910, the German drug company Bayer marketed diacetylmorphine as an over the counter drug under their trademark name Heroin. The name was derived from the Greek...
Super Glue, the brand name for the fast-acting adhesive cyanoacrylate was discovered accidentally in 1942 by Dr. Harry Coover and Fred Joyner of Kodak Laboratories during experiments to make a...
Talc is the softest known mineral and is listed as 1 on the Mohs hardness scale. It is a mineral composed of hydrated magnesium silicate with the chemical formula H2Mg3(SiO3)4 or...