Word: carbonated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meteorites also contain carbon compounds that suggest an even more fascinating possibility. They could have been produced, says Urey, by primitive life forms that survived their violent passage from the earth and multiplied rapidly in the lunar waters during the few millenniums that the moon...
...algae seems to have carried on photosynthesis, the process by which plants change water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbohydrates, at least 400 million years before anyone thought the process existed...
...Using carbon-14 dating techniques, the team concluded that the early Americans may have used primitive tools -- more primitive than any others discovered in the New World -- and hunted ice age mammoths and mastodons, as well as early forms of the camel and horse...
...Them Out." When the cabin wall ruptured, escaping pressure sucked the flames across the astronauts-first Grissom, then White, finally Chaffee. Dense smoke and carbon monoxide rapidly filled the cabin. Though the astronauts suffered burns, it was asphyxiation that killed them. So intense were the heat and smoke billowing from the cabin into the "white room" near the craft that rescuers were repeatedly driven back and their gas masks, designed to protect against toxic fumes rather than smoke, were quickly exhausted...
...also a rather exclusive one: both Costa and his predecessor are former army generals whose power rests as much on military support as on constitutional provisions. Yet last week, as he was inaugurated in the capital of Brasilia, Costa showed by word and deed that he will be no carbon copy of outgoing President Humberto Castello Branco...