1. Why was element 43 named technetium?
Element 43 was named technetium, meaning "artificial". At first, Emilio Segré, one of the discoverers of technetium, was under the pressure by the University of Palermo, where he worked, to name the newly found element "panormium". Walter Noddack, who also claimed to have discovered it insisted to have the name "masurium" given to it. In the end, technetium seemed the best fitting. After all, it was the first man-made element, making it "artificial".
2. What are two other scientific discoveries that occurred by mistake besides this cited?
Upon doing my research, I found out that two scientific discoveries that occurred by mistake were viagra and penicillin. Viagra was originally meant to be a pill to combat angina, a precursor to heart attacks. Instead, it gave the people treating it a very hard time, if you know what I'm sayin'. Penicillin is much more accidental. Sir Alexander Fleming, who recently came back from vacation, discovered a mold growing on one of his samples. Her later learned that what he had accidentally discovered was penicillin.
3. Why isn't Linus Pauling, a brilliant chemist, as famous as Watson and Crick?
It's obvious why Linus Pauling isn't as famous as Watson and Crick. Linus Pauling, despite being a brilliant chemist, totally messed up the idea of a DNA strand. He calmed wholeheartedly that DNA was a triple helix, something that Watson and Crick later came disagree. Watson and Crick are obviously more famous than Linus Pauling because they did give the correct shape of DNA, a double helix.
4.Research two interesting facts about phosphorous that relate to urine and matches
Wow. I just learned that phosphorus was first extracted from urine and that red phosphorus makes matches strike. Interesting....
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