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  • Anyway, the other group that Semitsa has done so much on is called the organo-phosphorus group.

    Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

  • Some of them are well known, or rather ill-known, because of the environmental hazards they have caused, such as organo-mercury and organo-lead compounds.

    Press Release: The 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973

  • The otter's return is attributed to the ban on organo-chlorine pesticides in the 1970s and its designation as a protected species.

    River clean-up brings otters back from brink of extinction Stephen Bates 2010

  • Instead it has campaigned against certain organo-chlorines, like dioxin, and sought – successfully – to stop chlorine being used to bleach wood pulp in Ontario and British Columbia because of the pollution it was causing in rivers and lakes.

    Dear Stewart Brand: If we can't trust your claims on DDT, why should we trust you on anything else? George Monbiot 2010

  • Alfonso X (1221-1284), King of Castile and León, began his reign in a highly characteristic manner, by bringing together the staff of the University of Salamanca and explicity demanding que aya un maestro en organo (that there should be an organ teacher).

    Archive 2009-07-01 Lu 2009

  • In April 1952 he wrote to a friend, I am both bound over for a year and obliged to take this organo-therapy for the same period.

    Szasz on the Turing Tragedy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Hive Ships are constructed of living organic matter, a pathogenic biological polymer containing organo-metallic compounds.

    Wraith Ship Biology | I Rate Science Fiction Doctors 2009

  • Buhay ninuno sa modernong pating, ang isang bagong uri ng hayop ng multo pating ay natuklasan , nakapreserba sa isang museo, at ito ay sekswal na organo sa kanyang noo.

    ideonexus.com »2009» Septiyembre 2009

  • These photosynthetic prokaryotes and analogous eukaryotic microalgae, which commenced growing in the Pool when it first formed about 4000 years BP, trap and bind detrital sediment and thereby create organo-sedimentary microbialites or microbial mats, which have mineralized to form stromatolites in Hamelin Pool.

    Shark Bay, Australia 2008

  • Haeckel's Phylogeny Recapitulates ontolohiya ay maaaring hindi totoo, sa walang-katapusang galak ng Creationists, ngunit ang pag-unawa kung bakit ito ay hindi tunay na bubukas ang pinto sa pag-unawa sa kung paano ang iba't ibang uri ng hayop ay maaaring simulan ang lahat ng naghahanap ng katulad ng embryos at gayon pa man ang kanilang mga organo bumuo sa iba't-ibang specializations.

    ideonexus.com »2,008» March 2008

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