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- Grade 11 and 12 Mathematics (Moderator: geoffrey)
About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
Human stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve small pieces of metal such as razor blades or staples.
Though the United States has largely rejected the metric system, it is used for currency, as in 100 pennies = 1 dollar. Previously, the British currency system was used, with measurements such as 12 pence to the shilling, and 20 shillings to the pound.