Word: carbonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carbon Copies...
...when I came back to Harvard, I was so unused to having people judge my actions objectively, according to their efficiency or morality, that I found it very hard to relate to people. I had forgotten that people found it strange when I made carbon copies of my class notes or dropped a girl I was taking out because she was beginning to care too much about...
...passengers that there had been a wreck. In another, they saved the day by starting an earthquake with supersonic waves. This week, they unnerved a murder-for-hire chieftain by making him believe in ghosts; first by projecting a likeness of Phelps's face into a cloud of carbon dioxide in a darkened room, then by propping up the unconscious body of one of the killer's underlings and using a face mask-a favorite IMF ploy-to make him look like Phelps. The killer shoots at the face, but as he walks nearer, the mask dissolves...
...years ago, scientists have duplicated the creation of many of the basic chemical building blocks of life. But one compound essential to the continuance of life has never been found in the primeval atmosphere of the laboratory: chlorophyll, which enables plants to use the energy of sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into the food that plants and animals need. Now the missing compound may well have been created, further encouraging scientists to believe that they are on the right track toward understanding how life arose spontaneously when the world was still young...
Once the porphyrins accumulated along with other basic life chemicals in the primitive oceans, the NASA scientists theorize, they interacted with magnesium ions in the ocean, leading eventually to the formation of chlorophyll. Before the appearance of chlorophyll, long-chain, carbon-based molecules could reproduce themselves only by using other of the limited building-block materials in the oceans. With chlorophyll available, some long-chain molecules were able, by photosynthesis, to produce their own life material out of plentiful water and carbon dioxide, thus availing themselves of an endless supply of building materials and ensuring that life would proliferate...