'McNuggets' sold to American fast food lovers contain dimethylpolysiloxane, an anti-foaming agent used in Silly Putty.

U.S. McNuggets also contain a petrol-based chemical called tertiary butylhydroquinone (tBHQ) as well as dimethylpolysiloxane.

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Both researchers independently discovered that reacting boric acid with silicone oil would produce a gooey, bouncy material with several unique properties

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Some 40,000 passengers were stranded Saturday at the start of the French holiday season when all trains from one of the main stations in Paris were cancelled after lightning cut power supplies.

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The latest official figures show that the North West has experienced its driest six months since 1929 - and is just weeks away from a hosepipe ban.

Yet the South East, which is normally the first to suffer droughts, has escaped with rainfall levels close to average.

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Nuke the BP oil leak! Undersea blast could plug it, say physicists

In the 1960s, Russia used nuclear explosions to staunch leaking gas wells, with varied results, as Mr Mikhailov admitted.

'Radioactive material was still seeping through cracks in the ground and spreading into the air,' he said. 'It wasn't worth it.'

But he still firmly believes that the nuclear option is BP's best bet.

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Produced by Italian state broadcaster RAI TV, the documentary charges U.S. warplanes illegally dropped white phosphorus incendiary bombs on civilian populations, burning the skin off Iraqi victims.

One U.S. soldier charges this amounts to the U.S. using chemical weapons against the Iraqi people.

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