Word: carbonization
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...soccer ball named after a Harvard dropout and made from, and shaped like, a carbon molecule will be marketed in the United States beginning next month...
...soccer ball has been dubbed "Fullerene C-60" as a tribute to the architect's innovative dome design. The late R. Buckminster Fuller, an eminent architect who was twice forced to leave the College, created the geodesic dome--which resembles both a soccer ball and a carbon molecule in shape...
...carbon molecule, which was discovered in liquid form in 1985 and in solid form in 1990, was named the "Buckyball," also in honor of Fuller. "It's named after him because of the similarityof his architectural structure," said Lowell D.Lamb, a member of the team that discovered thesolid form of Carbon 60 at the University ofArizona. "It's the third form of pure crystallinecarbon other than graphite and diamond...
Bush's lack of leadership was astounding and embarrassing for American representatives at the Rio conference. His administration remains the biggest obstacle to an international agreement to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions...
...increase in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards which would raise fuel efficiency standards 20 percent by 1996 and a further 20 percent by the year 2001. Such regulations would, according to energy experts, save two million barrels of oil per day and eliminate 300 million tons of carbon dioxide by the year 2008. However, Quayle and his council rejected the proposal, arguing that it would force the automobile industry to produce lighter and smaller cars that would result in greater traffic fatalities...