Word: sunlight
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Complete defoliation could also cause laterization, the destructive process that occurs in some tropical soils when removal of vegetation exposes them to erosion and sunlight. In South America, lateritic soil has baked into rock-like hardness and become useless with in five years after it was cleared for farming. As yet, there is no evidence of laterizing of similar soils in Viet Nam after defoliation, probably because the ground cover is never completely destroyed and grass and weeds reappear...
...earth 4.5 billion years ago, scientists have duplicated the creation of many of the basic chemical building blocks of life. But one compound essential to the continuance of life has never been found in the primeval atmosphere of the laboratory: chlorophyll, which enables plants to use the energy of sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into the food that plants and animals need. Now the missing compound may well have been created, further encouraging scientists to believe that they are on the right track toward understanding how life arose spontaneously when the world was still young...
Although diffused sunlight may have obscured the beams from East Coast stations, the two Western beams were recorded by Surveyor's camera. To make certain that the dots were indeed Alley's lasers and not transmission static, scientists turned the beams on and off, while Surveyor snapped away. On the sequence of Surveyor shots that resulted, the dots obediently appeared and disappeared...
Every frame is dominated by the dizzying North African heat; with blinding sunlight and sweat-drenched bodies, Visconti comes close to prostrating his audience as he builds Meursault's unexpected, meaningless murder of an Arab on the beach. It is stifling, too, in the courtroom where Meursault is condemned, as much for his disengagement from society's proprieties and his refusal to pretend pieties he does not feel as for the crime itself...
Find the right sport to hang a fragile abstract painting (18 x 18) against a wall, out of direct sunlight, not in a dining hall. It must be in a Harvard building, in a secure public place, other than the Carpenter Center Auditorium or Student Lounge at William James. Suitable prize. Henry Berg. x2378...