Word: gaseous
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...Iran and met with the American ambassador in La Paz; he talks of controlling the Santa Cruz “oligarchs” that reign over Bolivia’s wealth, but also about respecting international laws when renewing contracts with foreign investors in La Paz’s gaseous gold: natural...
...caller smells a gaseous odor emanating from the Center for Government and International Studies on Tuesday, Jan. 24. HUPD suspects a possible gas leak and phones University Operations and Cambridge Police Department for assistance. But in the end, no evacuations were needed. Apparently, it was just a bunch...
...intensity of the flicker told the scientists how small the planet was- too small to be a gaseous blob like Neptune- and therefore probably made of rock and ice; the timing told them it?s about three times further from its star than we are from the sun. Its surface temperature is probably below ?360 degrees F, much too frigid to sustain life...
...moon?s small mass and low gravity that prevents it from keeping hold of even a tenuously thin atmosphere. But oxygen needn?t exist only in gaseous form above the ground. It can also be entrained safely in certain kinds of rocks. Gather the rubble and either treat it with chemicals or blast it with heat, and you can free up unlimited quantities of oxygen both for breathing and for rocket fuel...
...Conveying the sweep of 20th century art, with its many manifestations, is a tricky business. "History without chronology can become volatile," warned Le Monde's Harry Bellet in an otherwise favorable review of the Pompidou show, "and the 'Big Bang' strongly risks staying in a gaseous state." But volatility can be good, according to Robert Rosenblum, a New York University art historian and Guggenheim curator. "There has been such exposure, in fact, overexposure to 20th century art," he says, "that museums have to shuffle the deck around from time to time for people to see things...