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(PhysOrg. com) -- Scientists have gained new insight into the makeup of ancient meteorites called Carbonaceous Chondrites, in research published in the October edition of the journal Earth Science and Planetary Letters.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Carbonaceous organic matter (derived from plants, etc.) in the soil will burn off in the temperature range of 400-700 °C, provided sufficient air is allowed in to convert it to carbon dioxide gas.
Chapter 5 1984
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Carbonaceous matter that fell in 1840, in Tennessee; Cranbourne,
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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Carbonaceous and vegetable matter, on calcination 1.8 2.1 4.0
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In the present communication, it is proposed to lay before the profession a series of remarks, which I have been enabled to put together, with a view to elucidate the cause and progress of that very peculiar pulmonary disease, incident to coal-miners, which I shall denominate BLACK PHTHISIS, or Ulceration induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar
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Carbonaceous shale — Altered clay beds containing considerable brownish bituminous material.
Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico : 1937
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Carbonaceous period, in N. America and Europe, the productions were much more like than they now are {396}.
The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Charles Darwin 1845
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Titled "Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites" and authored by NASA scientist Richard Hoover of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, it makes the audacious claim that a meteorite that slammed into France in the 1800s has clear evidence pointing to space-dwelling microbes.
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The same plant also occurs in the whitestone quarry [an overlying bed] in the form of Carbonaceous impressions.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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Carbonaceous chondrites are extremely important to scientists as they were formed from material that existed in the solar system's planet-forming disk of gas and dust.
Latest Articles Discovery News 2010
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