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Answer
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The cities of Venice and Waterford were once famous for making this
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Glass
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What stave churches are constructed from
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Wood
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The first watch made using this crystal was released by Seiko in 1969
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Quartz
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Gas that the Hindenburg zeppelin was filled with when it caught fire in 1937
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Hydrogen
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Material made by tanners, who traditionally used urine and dung in the process
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Leather
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Hat makers may have gone "mad" due to exposure to this toxic metal
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Mercury
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This bouncy substance made from tree drippings caused the Amazonian city of Manaus to be fabulously wealthy in the late 19th century
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Rubber
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What the Statue of Liberty is made from. It took a couple decades for the statue to turn from orange to green.
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Copper
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Lightbulbs were improved in 1904 when filaments were first made using this durable metal with the chemical symbol W
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Tungsten
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In the Roman Republic, free born men wore rings of this utilitarian material. Over time, the practice died out and people (who could afford it) wore gold rings instead.
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Iron
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The most abundant metal in the earth's crust, it used to be worth more than gold because it was difficult to refine
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Aluminum
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Known as "inheritance powder", poisonings using this substance were difficult to detect until the Marsh Test was invented in 1836
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Arsenic Trioxide
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Substance found in the heads of certain whales that was used to make candles
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Spermaceti
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Traditionally, college professors wore jackets made of this rough woolen material, named for a British river
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Tweed
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The Aztecs made many decorative objects from this blue-green stone
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Turquoise
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Type of ceramic invented in China and not produced in Europe until 1708
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Porcelain
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Bird and bat poop deposits that were highly valuable as fertilizer until the early 20th century
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Guano
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Forged documents claimed that Saddam Hussein was trying to import the yellow cake variety of this element, leading to the Iraq War
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Uranium
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The world's first synthetic fiber, created by DuPont in 1935. During WWII, women stopped wearing stockings made from it due to wartime shortages.
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Nylon
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Drug lord Pablo Escobar gave people a choice between two metals. The first was silver (a bribe). The second was this (a bullet).
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Lead
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