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Plants occasionally do the analyzing themselves. Many dissolved minerals are poison to some plants and healthy food to others. A certain wild pansy (Viola calaminaria, et zinci) thrives on the waste dumps of zinc mines where little else can survive. The presence of other plants points to copper, lead or petroleum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prospecting Above Ground | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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