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    carbon


    1. The cars fumes (carbon monoxide) will settle into the tunnel and kill them


    2. The cycle for reproduction is 30 to 60 days and is triggered by the presence of he host’s warmth and the carbon dioxide given off by respiration


    3. When the planet’s forests deplete the soils of nutrients, they begin to die off, releasing their stored carbon into the atmosphere


    4. All this carbon builds up in the atmosphere, creating a “greenhouse effect” and causing a rise in the earth’s temperatures


    5. When the forests again take root, they absorb the carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, and the ice age diminishes


    6. and Hell reduced to carbon ashes? The inventiveness of the torturer? Elevation to an


    7. "Introduce carbon dioxide to the cabin and have a fingerprint, those are the most sophisticated biometrics


    8. So pretty much anything that contains oxygen – carbon monoxide,


    9. The first squall of wind carried away two carbon fibre masts of The Kaliantiakos and left just the foremast standing


    10. One could see it had glass strings, thirty six of them, so thin they would have been dangerous without the carbon fiber reinforcements that gave them a smokey appearance

    11. Almost a carbon copy of the recently deceased big man except that the new leader’s swastika was tattooed on his face


    12. The cattle population had been decimated and there were no cars to fill the atmosphere with carbon monoxide


    13. They wrote a receipt out in a small carbon book and gave Nate a copy


    14. However, it seems organic matter is more susceptible to the TE field due to the presence of carbon and water


    15. Scott stood back and watched it as its metal frame began to fold up, first at the four hinge points and then the carbon frame collapsed in on itself like an old-style inner tube, and again folding until what was left was a rectangular box, ten by three centimetres deep


    16. It was a carbon copy of his own bridge on the Elysian, very basic, minimal instrumentation and no decoration whatsoever


    17. It has been found through experimentation that when plants grow in an environment, where ultra-violet light is filtered out and where carbon dioxide content in the air is increased, they flourish and bear more fruit than under normal conditions today


    18. And finally, it"s anybody"s guess how many millions he has made to date in his championing of Global Warming (Climate Change) as caused by anthropogenesis, that is: due to carbon emissions by developed countries


    19. One can"t help wondering how large his own carbon footprint is, considering the gas-guzzling SUV he drives, as well as his not infrequent flights on private jets


    20. Instead, the device would build itself using nano-constructors (microscopic replicating machines that converted silicon, carbon and metal into circuitry)

    21. I can tell you that besides a suicide by carbon monoxide, nothing smells as badly as a drowned body


    22. avoid this problem, we have selected a brisk African tea decaffeinated naturally using the carbon dioxide method


    23. By leaving the tea leaves in water and adding liquid carbon


    24. Keep in mind that it will increase your power consumption and carbon footprint


    25. “Who could have guessed, even with the most accurate data to use in our projections, that Hartle would meet, attempt to seduce, and make enough of an impression, that she has been asking about him,” said Espin, vertical pupils black as carbon, pince-nez dangling from a hand as he read his large-script device


    26. A ‘heads of government’ meeting in Copenhagen failed to bring forward a binding agreement that would reduce carbon emissions, believed to be the cause of global warming


    27. Continuing news bulletins didn't help his attitude, with reports that the worst aspect of manmade pollution may not be carbon in the atmosphere, but methane


    28. Up until that time, LP had thought Bill McKibben's theories on climate change, based on the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, had some foundation


    29. to any studies or examinations that had taken place nor to any scientists that had identified carbon


    30. course , the environmentalists will soon sue to have all carbon dioxide emitters regulated and who

    31. EPA"s rules to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were cited as impediment


    32. they issuing rules and regulations? Carol Browder announced that she was going to declare carbon


    33. Many are based on their acceptance of the idea global warming exists, that the small amount of carbon


    34. When less performance was required, a condition of richness of fuel supplied was in evidence wherein incomplete oxidation (burning) left a residue of carbon that slowly coated the burning chamber and exhaust piping, shortening the lifetime of the engine that supplied the umph of performance


    35. An engine left running on idle over a long period of time then would develop carbon clogging that at some stage would begin to interfere with performance in the median range where it was set for average efficiency and performance, something akin to cholesterol buildup in the body


    36. The ocean contained huge amounts of carbon in coral and algae, and dissolved CO2


    37. Carbon dioxide made up 0


    38. Pratt then went on with many more studies showing the disconnect between temperature and carbon dioxide concentrations


    39. Was the push an all-out effort to get the carbon fines and sanctions going by the time the sun-earth cycle began its cooling phase in order to be in a position to take credit for the drop in temperature? Said another way, without a global taxing body in operation, when the cooling started, this political movement would suffer and possibly die, bringing about some other income redistribution scheme,


    40. He flew in a private jet and to offset this pollution and the energy consumption in his three homes (fourteen thousand–plus square feet) he paid for carbon credits to a firm, it turned out, he partly owned!

    41. This could take years to arrange - typewritten letters, carbon copies, bulky photocopies of documents, and airmail – expensive, time-consuming and beyond my means to cope with on my own


    42. warming due to carbon dioxide


    43. The carbon credit scam is being investigated for what it is


    44. It may have a few carbon stains from the burning process, but that’s it, and even this could easily be wiped off with a cloth


    45. At first, everything burns black, and then later, when the carbon binds with oxygen to form carbon dioxide, flames will remove all water and carbon from the bones, leaving snow white bones


    46. Some bones will have dark carbon stains and this is normally caused by the use of cancer medication which is alleged to alter the bone composition


    47. “The process lowers the carbon footprint”


    48. Smokestacks smoked, carbon dioxide belched forth, millions of animals produced flatulent gases including CO2, and the “carbon footprint” was enlarged


    49. Their findings include the astonishing revelation that only about 5 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, of such concern to the warming brigades, are produced by human activity


    50. Yes, trillion! The rest of the carbon dioxide emissions, 90-95%, come from such sources as volcanoes, dying vegetation, and flatulent animals (We await a remedial proposal for that one)














































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    Synonyms for "carbon"

    carbon carbon copy atomic number 6 c carbon paper image manifold photostat issue duplicate copy

    "carbon" definitions

    an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds


    a thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper


    a copy made with carbon paper