Scoville rating	Type of pepper
15,000,000 - 16,000,000	Pure capsaicin
9,100,000	Nordihydrocapsaicin
8,600,000	Homodihydrocapsaicin and homocapsaicin
2,000,000 - 5,000,000	Standard US Grade pepper spray
855,000 - 1,041,427	Naga Jolokia
876,000 - 970,000	Dorset Naga
350,000 - 577,000	Red Savina Habanero
100,000 - 300,000	Habanero Chile
100,000 - 325,000	Scotch Bonnet
100,000 - 200,000	Jamaican Hot Pepper
50,000 - 100,000	Thai Pepper, Malagueta Pepper
30,000 - 50,000	Cayenne Pepper, Ají pepper
10,000 - 23,000	Serrano Pepper
7,000 - 8,000	Tabasco Sauce (Habanero)
5,000 - 10,000	Wax Pepper
2,500 - 8,000	Jalapeño Pepper
2,500 - 5,000	Tabasco Sauce (Pepper)
1,500 - 2,500	Rocotillo Pepper
1,000 - 1,500	Poblano Pepper
600 - 800	Tabasco Sauce (Green Pepper)
500 - 1000	New Mexico pepper
100 - 500	Pimento , Pepperoncini
0	No heat, Bell Pepper

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2. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.

3. Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will “swipe your grub.”

4. Name your dog “Dog.”

5. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions “to keep them tuned up.”

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So much for “diamonds are forever.” Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have taken diamond, the hardest known natural material on Earth, and melted it into a puddle.

Diamond isn’t easy to melt, which is why the scientists used Sandia’s Z machine, the world’s largest X-ray generator, to subject tiny squares of diamond, only a few nanometers thick, to pressures more than 10 million times the atmosphere’s pressure at sea level.

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