Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race looked like a carbon copy of '78," McCurdy said. "Switchenko looked tired in the middle and you thought he was going to drop out any second, but he never slowed...
...brilliant bit of deduction about the planet Venus. At the time, many scientists still regarded Venus as a kind of sister planet of the earth with a benign climate. But radio emissions from the planet were hinting at puzzlingly high temperatures. Sagan pointed out that a Venusian atmosphere of carbon dioxide and water vapor would trap solar heat, create a "greenhouse effect" and raise surface temperatures far above those of the earth. His prediction was soon confirmed by Soviet landers. The planet's surface temperature proved to be about 480° C (900° F), high enough to melt lead...
...wrong aboard the Prinsendam is to be determined by a Dutch investigation. Preliminary accounts indicate that a fuel line may have broken, causing diesel oil to spurt on hot pipes and burst into flames. The fire knocked out the electrical system, shutting down the fire-fighting pumps. Crewmen sprayed carbon dioxide from handheld extinguishers, but could not keep the flames from spreading to other parts of the ship through an air shaft...
...nicotine but carbon monoxide that has been proven to harm the unborn child and low-tar cigarettes do not decrease the amount of carbon monoxide inhaled." Bennett said...
...Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960; of a blood clot in the lung; in Los Angeles. A participant in the World War II Manhattan Project, Libby helped develop the gaseous-diffusion method of separating uranium isotopes. In the mid-'40s, he discovered that a radioactive isotope of carbon was a tiny but measurable part of all living matter and, decaying at a predictable rate, could be used to assign an age to dead organic archaeological and geological remains. An advocate of nuclear testing, he served on the Atomic Energy Commission from 1954 to 1959 and also headed the Eisenhower...