She memorized the periodic table of chemical elements.
chemical elements = materials composed of a single type of atom
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If an organism fails in that action, it dies; its chemical elements remain, but its life goes out of existence.†
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Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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How many chemical elements are there on Earth?†
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Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road, 1963
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In short, it will list the chemical elements that serve as the basis for all the many mixtures and compounds of human suffering.†
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Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924
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Since the battle of Borodino and the pillage of Moscow it had borne within itself, as it were, the chemical elements of dissolution.†
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Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, 1869