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Mercury reacting with aluminum.

Dehydration of sugar in sulfuric acid.

Snake venom meets blood.

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Alpha particle trails from radioactive decay of Radon 220.

Burning mercury II thiocyanate.

Burning Lithium.

A lightbulb burning out.

Electrical treeing.

Catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide.

Blood meets hydrogen peroxide.

Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction.

Aluminum and iodine.

Tin crumbling after being cooled to lower than 13 degrees Celsius.

Sodium acetate crystallization.

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4-hydroxybenzaldehyde crystallizing out of water.

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