Word: copper
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Problems have plagued Diablo Canyon for years. Soon after construction began, geologists discovered that the plant was being built near the Hosgri fault line. Their findings prompted an overhaul of its structural design. In 1976 P G & E had to replace miles of copper tubing when scientists found that sea life near the plant had been killed by toxic runoff from its piping. Then in 1981 construction came to a halt because some blueprints were discovered to have been reversed...
...case you have wondered: magenta, cyan (blue), yellow and black are the basic printing "colors" that are combined to produce almost all other hues, hence the term four-color. Metallic glosses, such as gold, silver and copper, are called fifth colors...
...Acid rain is terribly destructive to bronze sculpture. It reduces metallic bronze to blue green copper sulfate and black copper sulfite," explains Marjorie B. Cohn, a Fogg conservator...
Peru's economy began to slide in 1980 under the pressure of a world recession and low prices for the country's copper and lead exports. Belaúnde further undermined the economy by borrowing excessively from other countries and failing to curb money-losing state enterprises. The gross domestic product declined 12% last year, the worst performance in Latin America. Inflation hit 125%, unemployment 8.3% and underemployment 51%. The Peruvian sol declined 130% against the dollar during 1983. The country's foreign debt is $13 billion, about two-thirds of its gross domestic production. Bela...
...high concentrations of ozone and get more rain, which washes chemicals onto the trees. "Most people think of remote mountains as ideal vacation spots that are very clean, but they're not," declares Johnson. Many isolated areas in the mountains of New England have abnormally high levels of copper, zinc, nickel and cadmium. And the Green Mountains of New Hampshire, seemingly pristine, in fact rival big cities when it comes to lead pollution...