Word: carbonization
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...NASA engineers are also portrayed in this can-do light. At one point in the movie, as Odyssey begins of fill with carbon dioxide, a group of engineers is gathered together, and a heap of what appear to be spare parts is thrust before them...
...long after, the group parades through the corridors of the Manned Spacecraft Center triumphantly, wielding a device, made solely from those parts, capable of removing the carbon dioxide from the capsule's atmosphere. It's the sort of moment that makes the audience want to stand up and cheer...
...nation U.N. World Climate Conference that ended last week in Berlin, a lobbyist for the "Global Climate Coalition," a consortium of U.S. coal, gas and oil producers, bustled about confidently, warning against "dramatic, excessive" carbon dioxide controls and against "stifling" economic growth with "irrational new emission caps." The conference saw global warming differently, perhaps influenced by the Rhode Island-size hunk of shelf ice that broke off Antarctica recently. Jokers outside the conference peddled cans of Official Heisse Luft, or hot air, but the nations gathered wits and courage, and voted to begin negotiating precise CO2 limits...
...achievement. The performers condensed the plots of all three movies into a blitzkrieg show lasting just over one hour. "It was delightful," says Bezreh. With novelties like a Planet Alderon that exploded into an audience-showering rain of candy and complementary freeze-pops during the Hans Solo-frozen-in-carbon scene, the show drew an enthusiastic crowd...
While Nelson developed some of the theory behind these new techniques, Lieber has been working to synthesize new materials, including carbon nitride, a substance perhaps harder than diamond, which could be used for protective coatings and new cutting tools, according to the Harvard Gazette...