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This unit of weight is abbreviated mg.

Hans Lippershey, who invented this instrument in 1608, called it a "looker"

To stop staining, Farah makes men's slacks coated with this, usually found on cookware

The first modern ones of these, called Lucifers, were invented in 1827 & struck on sandpaper

Cesium was the first element found by this process using the band of colored light produced by a prism

Nearly 25 percent of U.S. teens now own one of these phones, so there's no excuse for not calling home

Automaton is sometimes just a fancy name for one of these mechanical beings

When a plane travels faster than the speed of sound, it creates this thunderous noise

An empty Goodyear blimp weighs over 12,000 lbs.; when they fill it with this gas, it weighs only 100 to 200 pounds

The Celsius temperature scale is also called this, meaning "divided into one hundred parts"