Word: rust
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...After the Crimson’s sojourn into the Lone Star State, I’m worried,” Torre wrote. “Maybe, I fear, I have seen more than just some early-season rust, or a pure statistical anomaly. I can’t help but fear that at this rate, the season could still turn out to be downright offensive...
Maybe, I fear, I have seen more than just some early-season rust, or a pure statistical anomaly...
...Harvard sailors struggled to a 2-3 mark, finishing the weekend second to Tufts. And it became clear that, though the mud could be cleaned off, after a three-month hiatus and barely two practices, the nation’s No. 1 team still showed quite a bit of rust...
Lovley's dual pursuits of scientific exploration and natural surroundings led him straight to the discovery of a group of remarkable microbes he named Geobacter, which breathes rust instead of oxygen, thrives in polluted earth and can even generate electricity. When Lovley first found Geobacter in silt beneath the Potomac River in 1987, he had no idea how capable it was. "I never thought it would go this far," says Lovley. "But Geobacter can do so many things...
Geobacter's secret is its unique metabolism: the microbes expel electrons outside their cell walls without needing to convert them to water, as human cells do. Geobacter needs only an outside compound--usually iron oxide, or rust--to accept the excess electrons. Lovley discovered how to coax Geobacter into not only dumping electrons onto uranium waste but also consuming petroleum by-products. Geobacter has already effectively decontaminated a uranium mine in Colorado and an oil spill in Minnesota...