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paired stories, first series
6: bad accidents
a: Karen Wetterhahn
vocabulary quiz
paired stories, first series
6: bad accidents
a: Karen Wetterhahn
vocabulary quiz
chemical
coma
create
dose
environment
exposure
handle
harm
ignorance
industrial
layer
lethal
liquid
penetrate
protection
recognize
resistant
soluble
supply
vision
| 1 | able to cause death |
| 2 | amount of something you take into your body |
| 3 | not solid, not gas |
| 4 | not affected, not allowing other things to enter |
| 5 | know what something is because you have seen it before |
| 6 | the ability to see |
| 7 | being unconscious ('asleep' in other words) for a very long time |
| 8 | hurt, damage |
| 9 | nature; the non-human world |
| 10 | connected with making things in factories — or with doing business |
| 11 | breaking down into small pieces when put in water (sugar, for example) |
| 12 | enter something (often by force or by breaking through a covering) |
| 13 | scientific word for a particular 'substance' (mercury or lead for example) |
| 14 | something that stops things from attacking or hurting you |
| 15 | time during which you are affected by something (that is touching you) |
| 16 | amount of something that remains |
| 17 | not knowing |
| 18 | bring something new "into existence"; make |
| 19 | work on something with your hands |
| 20 | flat section of something with other flat sections above or below |
