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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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20 December 2009 2:27 PM | Tagged: world
LEGAZPI, Philippines - The Philippines' most active volcano could erupt within days, officials warned Sunday after detecting a drastic surge in earthquakes and eerie rumbling sounds in surrounding foothills. Tens of thousands of villagers have been evacuated as a precaution. Scientists raised the alert level for the Mayon volcano to one step below a major eruption after 453 volcanic earthquakes w

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20 December 2009 12:17 PM | Tagged: us
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A weekend nor'easter buried much of the U.S. East Coast on Saturday and Sunday, disrupting public transport and air travel and hampering holiday shoppers on the last weekend before Christmas. Up to 22 inches of snow was expected by Saturday night in the Baltimore-Washington area, more than any snowstorm to hit the region since February 2003, as the storm system moved north

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20 December 2009 11:27 AM | Tagged: world
One of the worst storms in decades blanketed much of the eastern United States with more than a foot of snow Saturday, grounding flights and bringing traffic to a standstill for millions on the final weekend of the busy holiday shopping season. In the bull's eye of the deadly weather, Washington -- a city more used to political storms than deep snow drifts -- set a December snowfall record of 16

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20 December 2009 12:37 AM | Tagged: us
WASHINGTON - A blizzard-like storm rocked the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Saturday, crippling travel across the region and causing hundreds of thousands of power outages. Five deaths appeared to have been caused by the storm system, which stretched from the Carolinas north to New England and also spread into some Midwestern states. The 13 inches of snow that had fallen in the nation's capital b

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20 December 2009 12:37 AM | Tagged: us
Despite being separated from their families, astronauts heading to the International Space Station next week are excited to be spending Christmas in space, a crew member said Saturday. Invoking a famous cartoon shown in the United States during the holiday season, American astronaut Timothy Creamer said the crew would not let a trip to the cosmos spoil their mood and planned to exchange gifts as

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19 December 2009 3:47 PM | Tagged: world
Iraq will sign preliminary contracts, from Sunday, with oil companies that bid successfully last week for seven fields, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad told AFP. The contracts will then be submitted to the cabinet for final approval. On Sunday, the consortium comprised of Anglo-Dutch firm Shell (60 percent) and Malaysia's Petronas (40 percent), will sign a pre-contract for the development of M

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19 December 2009 12:57 PM | Tagged: world
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian militants said on Saturday they had carried out their first attack on an oil pipeline since an amnesty offer because the absence of President Umaru Yar'Adua was delaying peace talks. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said its fighters, armed with rocket launchers and machineguns, carried out a warning strike against a Royal Dutch Shell There