Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They shatter a wine glass with a high pitch sound, use a ripple tank to demonstrate wave interactions and blast off across the lecture hall in a carbon dioxide-propelled rocket. Who are the people who perform these spectacular demonstrations during science lectures...
...meet its global warming commitments even if it wanted to. The government's Energy Information Agency this week released its 1999 Annual Energy Outlook, which suggests that complying with the Kyoto Protocol -- recently signed by the U.S. -- will be almost impossible. The agency projects that by 2010, U.S. carbon gas emissions will have increased 33 percent from 1990 levels; Kyoto requires that they be 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by then. But fulfilling the Kyoto requirements may not even be the administration's intention. "They signed the Kyoto treaty as a freebie," says TIME science editor Phillip Elmer-DeWitt. "They...
...Evans, Abbott and James Lawrence professor of chemistry, heads the laboratory. According to Evans, the chemical in the bottle should have been stored in a refrigerator, but the label did not specify the temperature of storage. As a result, the chemical was stashed away and, as it decomposed, liberated carbon dioxide built up pressure in the bottle...
...Harvard team failed to answer a problemasking them to devise a program to list possibleconfigurations of carbon atoms in organicchemistry molecules...
Addendum for the technologically challenged: to bcc, or blind carbon copy an e-mail in Telnet, hit Control R, which brings up a rich header. Put your own email in the "To" box, and then put the other people under "Bcc." Oh, and a last note to Wondering in Winthrop: the next time you're having a party, my email is sridhar...