Word: waterless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the waterless John is flushed, this specially refined mineral oil and wastes go into a separator tank. There, urine and solids sink to the bottom, then are sent to a holding tank, where they are eventually burned in an almost pollution-free, 1200° F. incinerator that leaves a residue of sterile ash. The oil itself is filtered, chlorinated and returned odorless to the toilet tank to be used again. And again. Over a year, just 5% of the mineral oil is lost in the process...
...often affect industrializing nations. The country is suffering from high unemployment (an estimated 1,000,000 are jobless in the East Central state alone). Most basic services -roads, telephones, water and power -are in chaos and disrepair; the luxurious Ikoyi Hotel outside of Lagos, for instance, is often waterless for days at a time. Goods rot on their way to market because of highway snarls, and according to a recent survey, the chances of completing a telephone call in Lagos are only...
Could life evolve on planets unlike the earth - say on a completely waterless world? Experiments performed by Goesta Wollin and David B. Ericson of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory suggest that it could indeed, although without water any organisms would probably be totally unrecognizable...
...water, the scientists exposed them to ultraviolet radiation and found that they combined to produce small quantities of some of the amino acids essential to life. Says Wollin: "Perhaps liquid ammonia, with its physical and chemical properties so similar to water, could serve as a solvent medium for waterless life...
...spite of their heated arguments about the moon's origin, history and composition, lunar scientists usually agree on one point; that the moon is a bleak, waterless place, a million times dryer, as one researcher put it, than the Gobi Desert. That idea was challenged last week, as two Rice University scientists disclosed that they had detected the first evidence of water on the moon...