warmer water, so this study will tell us more about greenhouse warming of the oceans.Thanks to the ... the U.S. Army's incinerator in Utah, plans to burn up the chemicals in high temperature furnaces. ... a bomb's aluminum casing is difficult to burn without filling the air with gases that can cause cancer.Recycling valuable parts and metals of bombs is vital in today's world, when the supply ...
volcanoes are deadly. They kill us and our livestock, force us out of our lands, and alter our weather. In 1815 the Indonesian ... still hot.If a volcano below Antarctica's ice erupts, it could burn much of the ice layer but might not explode into the air. Yet if ... for recently the count of active volcanoes has gone up. In the South Pacific, the oceanographic research ship Melville's sonar ...
but overpopulation ensures that space on the planet is running out Dumping garbage where people don't live—deserts, ice fields, ... seems to turn yellow and friable in a few weeks). It's stupid to burn the stuff and add to the already dangerous air pollution, but ... garbage incinerators costing $100 million each that may send out 3,000 tons of toxic ash per day.If dumping and filling ...
medicines coated this way could be delivered into a tumor without hurting the rest of the body on the way. Exploration is under way ... aspects of fullerenes used as cages.There's been a lot of shouting about "buckytubes." These are thought to be fullerenes that ... that thrill science fiction buffs. Some day humans won't have to burn rocket fuel to get off Earth and keep going. Maybe we'll ...
over 90 percent of the sky. The data is being examined to find out whether the X-ray sources are objects previously unknown or ... Sun have been found, one fairly close (only eight times further out than Alpha Centauri).Very dim galaxies found recently contain few ... picture of this reality seems overwhelmingly violent. Stars burn, collapse, explode destructively. Some galaxies are colliding ...
simple life forms are more able to concentrate certain elements out of very low-grade sources than any human technology can. For ... However, seaweed can do it. It filters the rare iodine out of vast quantities of sea water, and then human beings can harvest the seaweed, burn it, and isolate iodine from the ash. Seaweed is our iodine-miner.There is a bacterium called 'Thiobacillus ...
and, indeed, such a huge strike is thought by many to have wiped out the dinosaurs 65million years ago.Lesser collisions have happened ... bit can't do much damage. Instead of having a huge crater gouged out, we'll be treated to a brilliant meteor display as the small pieces burn up in the air.(c) 1989, Los Angeles Times ...
age of mummy wrappings. Ages up to 45,000 years can be worked out and the technique is of infinite use to historians and ... necessary was to take a small bit of the linen of the shroud, about the size of a postage stamp, clean it and burn it. Carbon dioxide (made up of carbon and oxygen atoms) is then formed, and this can be converted into carbon itself by getting rid of the oxygen atoms. The ...
common event once forests came into existence about 400 million years ago. They did burn, so that animals were aware of fire, from which ... of much older campfires in certain caves in South Africa, about 35 miles west of Pretoria.In ... the remains of bones that seem to have been burned. Fresh bones are marrowfilled and fatty. If they are burned using an ordinary woodfire, the bones will burn ...
beginning in 1982, some people began to wonder whether an allout nuclear war might not produce similar effects. Imagine thousands ... fires was trapped over some valleys in Northern California and Southern Oregon by a inversion layer. Smoke accumulated there for ... 30 degrees Fahrenheit.The cause of this phenomenon was the burning over the period of a month of 80 squares miles of forest. ...
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