Word: byproduct
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...York City Sanitation Commissioner Anthony Vaccarello. "Garbage is the sow's ear that can be turned into a silk purse," adds Michael Dingman, president of Wheelabrator-Frye, a maker of environmental-control equipment. Such glowing descriptions of refuse, which is more conventionally considered a smelly, unsightly and unwanted byproduct of urban life, underscore the increasing popularity of trash as fuel in a U.S. facing growing shortages of energy...
...Wheelabrator-Frye converts and burns 1,200 tons of garbage daily, producing the steam equivalent of 12 million to 17 million gals, of oil a year for a nearby General Electric plant. A Milwaukee plant is designed to devour 1,600 tons of garbage a day and feed the byproduct fuel to the Wisconsin Electric Power...
Fluoride ions work into the crystalline structure of the tooth surface and make the structure a more perfect and thus more stable crystal. The tooth is therefore less susceptible to decay by acid attack. (Tooth decay is largely caused by acid dissolution of enamel. Acid is a byproduct of food decay...
...which affects perhaps 2 million people around the world, had to be directed at stopping the characteristic sickling, or distortion, of the red blood cells that occurs after they unload their cargo of oxygen. But how? During cocktail-party chatter, Lab Director Cerami learned from a colleague that a byproduct of urea-a chemical called cyanate-can prevent sickling. Tests on both animals and humans confirmed this, but the cyanate also had toxic side effects on the nervous system. So the Rockefeller scientists suggested adding the cyanate directly to the blood. That idea has led to the experimental development elsewhere...
Many experts draw a careful line between the ordinary criminal and the terrorist. Explains Rand's Jenkins: "Terrorism is violence aimed at [those] people watching. Fear is the intended effect, not the byproduct. That distinguishes terrorist tactics from muggings and other forms of violent crime...