Word: carbone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word prospectus proposed the melding of Britain's 14 largest iron and steel companies into a state-owned National Steel Corporation, which would employ 220,000 (70% of the industry's total) and control 90% of the nation's output of pig iron, crude carbon steel, heavy steel products, sheet and tin plate. Its aim was unequivocal: to scramble the industry so thoroughly that it could never be returned to private hands again...
...Bundie hurried toward Grays Hall, dozens of Chem 20 students were entering the organic chemistry laboratories on the second floor of Mallinckrodt for one of their twice-a-week labs. But this not to be an ordinary session in the wonders of carbon compounds...
...doctors were doing their bit to urge more safety features in autos. The demonstration was just one more in a growing chorus of demands that Detroit do something both to curb the rising highway accident toll and to cut down its annual contribution of 92 million tons of carbon monoxide to air pollution...
...that probably held oxygen, but the cable attaching him to the spaceship was thick enough to contain a good-sized oxygen tube. It may be an umbilical cord supplying oxygen from the spaceship's tanks, besides carrying wires for communication and telemetering. The tube could also carry away carbon dioxide from Leonov's breathing, water vapor from his perspiration and excess heat. The oxygen cylinders on his back may have been for emergency...
...give paleontologists any faint clue to what that life was like. Most rocks that date from those early years have been deeply buried for so long and subjected to so much heat and pressure that all organic traces they once contained have been turned to shapeless specks of carbon. One notable exception is a hard, black, ancient rock found near Gunflint Lake in western Ontario, which somehow escaped this rough treatment. In the magazine Science, Paleontologist Elso S. Barg-hoorn-of Harvard and the late Geologist Stanley A. Tyler of the University of Wisconsin describe the remains of microscopic organisms...