Word: molybdenum
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...think that's something that we can't ever hope to achieve and I don't see any reason for it. We can't become self-sufficient in zinc, or molybdenum, or bauxite or oil. But we can have an adequate assured supply from overseas, and an adequate reserve supply in this country, an adequate conservation program so that we don't waste fuel any further. And we must make a shift toward coal, whose quantity is almost unlimited...
...years, Andrus served in the Idaho state senate before running unsuccessfully for Governor in 1966. The next time around, he ignored the minuscule local Democratic machine and concentrated on opposing mining interests who wanted to despoil the White Cloud Peaks−a federal recreation area−n search of molybdenum. After his election, he continued to pound at his preservation theme, winning a long and bitter fight to protect a 2,000-sq.-mi. "primitive area" from lumbering interests. Going against the wishes of local power companies, he opposed construction of a giant coal-fired electrical generator not far from...
This bizarre-sounding theory, called "directed panspermia"* by its authors, results partly from uneasiness among scientists over current explanations about how life arose spontaneously on earth. Crick and Orgel note, for example, that the element molybdenum plays a key role in many enzymatic reactions that are important to life. Yet molybdenum is a rare element, much less abundant than, say, chromium or nickel -which are relatively unimportant in biochemical reactions. Thus, because the chemical composition of organisms "must reflect to some extent the composition of the environment in which they evolved," the authors suggest that earth life could have begun...
Some radioactive materials used in medical diagnosis have extremely short half-lives. For example, Molybdenum-99, manufactured in the Boston area, loses half its effectiveness in 67 hours; its derivative, Technetium, has a half-life of only six hours...
...country's first securities market. Munroe, who was once a broker in Beverly Hills, is convinced that overseas investment in Viet Nam is about to take off. "By 1975, there should be a rush to invest," he says, "in everything from rice, fruit and fish to rubber, timber, molybdenum and oil. There are tremendous long-range business opportunities. It's like frontier California; there's a great potential for growth...