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"In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face."
— Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything)
— Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything)
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