Word: byproduct
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drug and law enforcement officials also fear that Turkey's decision last week to resume planting opium poppies after a two-year prohibition will soon cause another deadly byproduct, "Turkish white" heroin, to appear back on the streets of New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles...
Critics of nuclear power plants have long warned of the danger of contamination from Plutonium 239, a highly dangerous byproduct of nuclear fission that has a half-life of a quarter million years. But asbestos has a nearly infinite half-life and unlike Plutonium 239, the air-borne fibers cannot be buried in salt mines far below the earth's surface to remove them from populated areas. The danger is ubiquitous, increasing and well-nigh invisible...
Easy Hijacking. The first man-made element ever to be manufactured in a quantity large enough to be seen with the naked eye, plutonium was used in the more devastating A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki. It is also a natural byproduct of the 20th century alchemy that occurs inside all nuclear reactors using uranium. But plutonium is difficult (and thus expensive) to handle; it is so toxic that the inhalation of only a few specks of dust is sufficient to cause cancer...
Meanwhile, some feed-lot operators have discovered that they can turn a helpful profit from a product that is literally under their noses. Among other feed-lot operators, Ohio Feed Lot Inc. of South Charleston, Ohio, has been selling 50-lb. sacks of fertilizer made from "purified animal byproduct"-a euphemism for manure. At about $2 per sack, says O.F.L. President John Sawyer, selling the manure is "sometimes more profitable than selling beef...
Rockefeller's influence is still felt in Exxon. He began selling overseas when the industry was still a handful of wells in Pennsylvania turning out a product that was refined mostly into kerosene burned in lamps (gasoline was then an unwanted byproduct). Early on, Stan dard Oil boasted that