Word: uranium
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...addition, geologists point out that Chad is likely to have untapped oases of oil beneath her burning desert sands. They suspect that a rich uranium belt that underlies the Central African Republic stretches into Chad as well. France may be eyeing such resources for the development of her atomic stockpiles...
...years ago, much of the earth still seemed as desolate and inaccessible as the moon. Now the wastes of Antarctica have been surveyed and found replete with coal; modern cities are sprouting in Siberia. Roads penetrate Africa's rain forests, leading to lodes of tin, bauxite and uranium. Arabian deserts are crisscrossed with oil pipelines; even the ocean depths may soon be farmed and mined...
...adrenalin is a stimulant to the heart, 79% that whooping cough cannot be inherited, 91% that chromosomes determine sex. Young adults did well in fact analysis and math calculations. But only 26% recalled that the periodic table shows the relationship of chemical elements, and a scant 3% correctly picked uranium-lead dating as an accurate method of determining the age of ancient rocks. Far oftener than any of the other groups, the 26-to-35s admitted their shortcomings and answered "I don't know...
...small, lemon-sized rock from the Ocean of Storms resembled an ordinary piece of granite, but it was, in fact, unlike any earthly specimen-or any of the other lunar material brought back by Apollo 12. It contained 20 times as much radioactive uranium, thorium and potassium as comparable amounts of other moon material and was the oldest lunar specimen yet obtained. Radioactive dating tests made by Caltech Geologist Gerald Wasserburg indicated that the rock was formed 4.6 billion years ago-around the time that the moon and the planets arc believed to have been created. Scientists hope that further...
...nationalistic mood, largely directed against what Canadians see as growing U.S. domination. Trudeau has no intention of driving out existing capital, and he considers much of the mood mere "chauvinism." Even so, he moved swiftly last month to block the sale of Denison Mines Ltd., Canada's biggest uranium producer, to a U.S.-controlled firm, and to limit foreigners to one-third ownership of uranium companies. That formula may become standard in many fields...