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Chemistry
Hell Bent for Lanthanum is a 1960 American Western film about an innocent chemist (Carl Gustaf Mosander) who is forced to go on the run to try and clear his name by isolating a new element (Lanthanum) from cerium nitrate.
Secret Reagent Man is a British-American television series about a spy (Patrick McGoohan) and a musician (Johnny Rivers) who team up to advance chemistry worldwide. Periodically guest starring Dmitri Mendeleev.
Patch Atoms is a 1998 American biographical comedy-drama documentary research project headed by theoretical physicist Robin Williams.
"Lipid" is a song by American rock band and industrial chemistry group Devo.
The Chromo-Pee Olympics is an international sporting event in which participants attempt to urinate in five contrasting colors.
Ionic Bondi Beach is a popular beach and the name of the surrounding suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, famed for its chemical bonding, both the bonding of oppositely charged ions, and the bonding of two atoms with sharply different electronegativities.
"Mendelevium on a Jet Plane" is a song by John Denver and a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
John Barleycorn Must Titrate is the fourth studio album by English chemical research laboratory and rock band Traffic.
The Secret of PERC is a 1982 American animated fantasy industrial chemistry training film about a strain of rats which have been genetically engineered to tolerate high levels of tetrachloroethylene (also known as PERC).
Flubber is a 1961 American science-sports documentary film of quantum gravity theorist and amateur athlete Brain Hard, whose spectacular and repeated failures at the Olympics "have set back research into gravity waves at least a generation."