Accidental Discoveries That Changed the World (Video)

Enjoy this first episode of the ACS series "Legends of Chemistry"

Written byAmerican Chemical Society
| 1 min read

Throughout the history of science, many major discoveries came accidentally. Sometimes they came from recognizing potential in an unexpected product or even a failed recipe's waste. Other times, discovery came out of pure desperation from a seemingly dead-end experiment. This week, Reactions celebrates those happy accidents that ended up changing the world in the first episode of a new sub-series, "Legends of Chemistry."

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