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Mendeleev predicts missing members of the periodic table decades before atomic structure is understood. Future discoveries of gallium, scandium, and germanium provide an inconvenient amount of evidence.
Investigators find luciferin, luciferase, and absolutely no pentagrams. The names sound demonic, but the chemistry is pure bioluminescence. Scientists clarify that “Lucifer” meant light-bearer before things got complicated.
Authorities remain baffled by how a reactive metal and a toxic gas became a substance routinely sprinkled on baked potatoes.