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Alfred Nobel

a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist, best known for inventing dynamite, a powerful explosive, and bequeathing his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes

hour

a unit of time that is equal to 3,600 seconds

observe

the act of gathering information about the natural world through the senses

iodine

a chemical element with the symbol I and atomic number 53

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