Word: clays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Last year we had an amazing array of cultural activities," said one of the conference's organizers, third-year law student Tracy-Elizabeth Clay. "It was very emotional--we ended up hugging and crying...
...first conference last spring was a huge success, Clay said, attracting more than 105 participants from as far away as Colorado, Arizona and Michigan...
...Clay said her goal this year is to get more HLS students to attend. Students and professionals arrived from all over the nation, but the HLS attendance was surprisingly low last year, Clay said...
Still, Taborsky remained intrigued by the clinoptilolite challenge and continued tinkering with the clay after hours--eventually stumbling onto what he thought might be the answer. Ever inquisitive, he had been heating the clay and charting its behavior to determine how much its absorption diminished with increasing temperatures. One day, while looking at his graphs, he discovered that above 1,500 [degrees] F the clinoptilolite starts rejecting calcium...
...that temperature, Taborsky concluded, the small pockets in the clay that absorb calcium close down while the ones that accept ammonia remain open. By spring 1988, he had gathered enough data to make his case to Carnahan and a Florida Progress representative, who told him that his idea could be "worth millions...