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    from gamma. He suggests that the pronunciation /k/ > /ɡ/ was due to contamination from the also similar-looking 'K'. Eventually, both velar consonants...
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    Brinckerhoff evaluated the continuing risks associated with asbestos contamination in the town and surrounding areas, classing the danger to visitors as...
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    completed. The tailings pile left untouched until the late 2010s. Trace amounts of uranium contamination were found in the Colorado River. The tailings were at...
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  • Norsk Hydro, the majority owner of Alunorte, denied responsibility for contamination outside of its facility. In 2021, residents of the state of Pará filed...
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    "Contamination of birds with Fulmar oil" (PDF). British Birds. 67: 297–301. Mlíkovský, J. (1992). Population status and food of the White-tailed Fish...
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    plastic, as well as other factors, likely contribute to contamination of chicks. Thousands of Short-tailed shearwater fledglings are attracted to artificial...
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    The long-tailed shrew or rock shrew (Sorex dispar) is a small shrew found in Atlantic Canada and the Northeastern United States. This shrew is slate grey...
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    Arsenic contamination of groundwater is a form of groundwater pollution which is often due to naturally occurring high concentrations of arsenic in deeper...
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    Mining can cause erosion, sinkholes, loss of biodiversity, or the contamination of soil, groundwater, and surface water by chemicals emitted from mining...
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    with the tailings. Exhausted open pit mines may be refilled with tailings. In all instances, due consideration must be made to contamination of the underlying...
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    approximately half of atmospheric mercury emissions. Atmospheric mercury contamination in outdoor urban air at the start of the 21st century was measured at...
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    resulting clouds of smoke and dust, heavily polluted with radioactive contamination. The trees died from this radiation. The explosion and fire at the Chernobyl...
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    supplements as "possibly safe", provided they are free of microcystin contamination, but "likely unsafe" (especially for children) if contaminated. Given...
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  • takes the form of a fly, and is the manifestation of the decay and contamination of corpses (nasa) (Bundahishn. 28:29). When a death occurs, Nasu inhabits...
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  • Kimberlite tailings are waste materials left after the recovery of diamond from diamond source rock. The material has a particle size ranging from 20 mm...
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    foods. Pasteurization and sufficient cooking kill Listeria; however, contamination may occur after cooking and before packaging. For example, meat-processing...
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    coal waste spill 1966 United Kingdom Acerinox accident radioactive contamination 1998 Spain Agriculture Street Landfill United States Ajka alumina plant...
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    Church Rock uranium mill spill (category Tailings dam failures)
    state of New Mexico on July 16, 1979, when United Nuclear Corporation's tailings disposal pond at its uranium mill in Church Rock breached its dam. The...
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    Commission about her safety concerns, she was found to have plutonium contamination in her body and her home. While driving to meet with a New York Times...
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    Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project was created by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) to monitor the cleanup of uranium mill tailings,...
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    transmit various diseases to humans and animals, mainly through water contamination. The genus name Myocastor derives from the two Ancient Greek words μῦς...
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    destruction of property. However, although they are responsible for the contamination of food and other types of damage, they do not transmit disease. House...
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    Baogang Tailings Dam, also known as the Baotou Tailings Dam or Weikuang Dam, is a tailings dam in Inner Mongolia, China, on the outer ring of the city...
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  • Mercury contamination in California waterways poses a threat to both the environment and human health. This naturally occurring heavy metal may be released...
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  • Louisiana Kudzu in the United States Loss of Louisiana Wetlands Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows Rabbits in Australia Red imported fire ants Reduction...
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  • (winner) Notes: In the entrée round, Chef Duverney committed cross-contamination by cutting her cooked hens on the same cutting board where she put her...
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  • the largest being a $10.3 billion settlement paid by 3M for water contamination in 2023. Studies have shown that companies have known of the health...
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    conventional explosives in two had exploded on impact, spreading radioactive contamination, while a third was found relatively intact in a riverbed. The fourth...
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  • The mine shafts itself also create a source of potential radioactive contamination through radon gas emissions from the mine openings. The territorial...
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    their napes. Immature eagles of this species typically have white on the tail and often have white markings on the wings. Golden eagles use their agility...
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