Word: eglinton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected, the lunar rock showed no indication of any life or concentrations of organic compounds. "This is the cleanest stuff you can find anywhere," commented the University of Bristol's Geoffrey Eglinton, one of 79 foreign participants at the conference. Nor did anyone find any trace of water-past or present; this prompted one scientist to comment that the moon was a million times as dry as the Gobi Desert...