Word: carbone
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ACTIVATED-CARBON FILTRATION. These systems are the most popular and the most effective in reducing so-called aesthetic contaminants like chlorine and sediment. Filters made of carbon in solid block form, as opposed to granules, are also highly effective in reducing lead. Systems range from inexpensive pour-through carafes to filters that are mounted on faucets, on countertops or under the sink. Cost...
HIID also often works internationally on specific cross-border issues such as environmental cleanup and preservation. Theodore Panayotou, an 11-year veteran of HIID who specializes in economic and environmental issues, says he has recently been working to coordinate carbon gas emission policies between the United States and certain South American countries...
...have purchased a few items on the Net. The sites were never advertised as being "safe" for transactions; however, in my opinion, it would be easier for someone to obtain a receipt or carbon copy of a "conventional" credit-card transaction or for a dishonest employee to steal your credit-card number than to go to the trouble of invading your "privacy" on the Net. And only a small percentage of people on the Net have the knowledge of how to tap someone's credit-card account illegally. EDWARD L. WENTZ III Oak Ridge, North Carolina...
...also gained international acclaim by leading the first group to develop an epoxide-forming reaction. An epoxide is a ring-shaped organic molecule consisting of an oxygen atom and two carbon atoms bonded together...
...digital beings will set off down the same sort of evolutionary path our species has traveled, only at electron speed. And if that happens, what then? We may find ourselves face to face with an artificial intelligence so thoroughly immersed in the silicon realm, so distant from our curious, carbon-based concerns, that we cannot even hope to converse with...