Word: ethanol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...completely contained within the hoodexcept for the bit which leapt out and ignited acontainer of ethanol," Solomon said. "It's notlike the building was devastated or anything...
...approximately 11 a.m....nitric acid and ethanol were inadvertently combined and the solution splattered on them," according to a Harvard Medical School press release...
...mixture of nitric acid and ethanol creates fumes which are a corrosive irritant. Nitric acid, a strong caustic acid, tends to bubble and splatter whencombined with certain other chemicals...
...appeals court overturned an Environmental Protection Agency regulation requiring that 30 percent of cleaner-burning gas be made up with ethanol, a corn-based oxygen additive that allows fuel to burn with less pollution. Ethanol is considered a more environmentally friendly product than alternative oxygenates butTIME science writer Eugene Lindensays, "This is not an anti-environmental ruling. It only challenges the EPA's right to dictate how those goals are achieved." Farmers had estimated that the required level of ethanol use would bring them up to $1.5 billion, but Linden suggests that there are other ways the government can encourage...
...involved in choosing the dozen presidential scholars coming for lunch as in wrestling with the wording of minor speeches. He was reluctant to let even minor White House proclamations go out without review. He recently barked at an aide who tried to release a statement on ethanol, saying he had to run it by two Midwestern Senators -- personally. "It's almost a throwback to the old ( days when Presidents did everything themselves," said an official. Added another: "He tries to keep all these balls in the air. He could get away with it in Little Rock. He was smart enough...