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21 February 2010 8:17 PM | Tagged: health nitrogen oxygen news
Nitrogen Blog
Nitrogen is a chemical element that has the symbol N, atomic number of 7 and atomic mass 14.00674 u. Elemental nitrogen is a colorless, odorless, tasteless and mostly inert diatomic gas at standard conditions, constituting 78% by volume of Earth's atmosphere.

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09 December 2009 11:37 PM | Tagged: financial
Members of the House Financial Services Committee have received, on average, $138,422 in campaign contributions from the financial services industry so far this year -- more than twice what non-committee members have taken in. And ten committee members who are cosponsors of two industry-friendly amendments received an average of about $200,000 from the financial sector.

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09 December 2009 2:59 PM | Tagged: aussie sports stall world cup bid
Australia's hopes of hosting the 2018 or 2022 World Cup have been hit by concerns from other sports which would run at the same time as the tournament.Fifa regulations state that World Cup venues cannot run rival competitions at the same time as the

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09 December 2009 8:39 AM | Tagged: aussie football codes complicating world cup bid
SYDNEY it's time to get thisstuff organized.'Australia, England, Japan, Russia and the United States, plus joint bidsfrom Spain-Portugal and Belgium-Netherlands are chasing either 2018 or 2022.Indonesia, Qatar and South Korea will concentrate on 20

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09 December 2009 8:07 AM | Tagged: bhp sells nickel quantum
Mining giant BHP Billiton has sold its distressed Ravensthorpe nickel mine to Canadian copper miner First Quantum Minerals for $340m. The West Australian mine was mothballed in January amid plunging nickel prices and a blow-out in project costs.

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09 December 2009 4:29 AM | Tagged: oz blog australias world cup bid footballsavvy secret weapons
There's less than a year until 'D Day' for the 2018/2022 World Cup Bid, with the hosts being announced amid much FIFA fanfare on 2 December 2010.  Which means that the FFA have less than a year left to convince FIFA that, despite being a relati

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08 December 2009 9:07 PM | Tagged: eu staff strike bid percent pay rise
BRUSSELS - European Union staff said on Tuesday that they will strike next week for their right to pocket an inflation-busting 3.7 percent pay rise which member states say shows double standards. Employees of the European Council -- the body that r

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08 December 2009 4:07 PM | Tagged: bourbons bid boost south