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On the Trails: Using animal excretions as resources

...guano, summarizing what was known, in 1950, about the distribution of guano deposits around the world and their chemical composition. I suspect it will be a long time before that achievement will be matched.? Mary F. Willson is a retired...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2013-01-11/trails-using-animal-excretions-resou
Outdoors
My turn: Hydraulic fracturing in Alaska

...proprietary and industry will not divulge the exact chemical composition, although diesel fuel seems to be a known ingredient...energy companies to provide full disclosure of the chemical composition of the hydraulic fracturing fluids. Some people...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-01-18/my-turn-hydraulic-fracturing-alaska
Opinion
Grant allows state museum to buy XRF spectrometer

...beam at an object. It then measures the resulting movement of electrons, from which it can deduce the object's chemical composition. The XRF works especially well at identifying heavier elements with more electrons. These materials include...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-05-10/grant-allows-state-museum-buy-xrf-spectro
Art
First Friday art openings

...at an object, and then measures the resulting movement of electrons, from which it can deduce the object's chemical composition. Bring your coins, jewelry and other metal objects to be x-rayed. Analysis will not harm your object in any...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2011-09-01/first-friday-art-openings
Art
Outside editorial: FBI has responsibility to correct its mistakes

...ballistic tests were not applicable. The assumption was that bullets from the same lead batches have the same chemical composition. But that assumption was debunked by the 2004 National Academy of Sciences study that found the FBI exaggerated...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/113007/opi_20071130020.shtml
Opinion
Plant resins: Sticky stuff exuded for security

...sense, resins do not include gums, latex, waxes or mucilages. Resins differ from the other exudates in their chemical composition, detailed in Jean Langenheim's tome titled "Plant Resins: Chemistry Evolution Ecology Ethnobotany." The...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/121109/out_534564362.shtml
Finding a home under the ice

...mucus on their skin. The established hypothesis of homing in salmon states that they are homing in on a unique chemical composition or distinctive odor of each watershed. This odor is said to come from local differences in soil and vegetation...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/111700/Com_Ice.html
Comm
Juneau legislators busy filing bills before session starts

...substances. Those are commonly known and sold as "Spice" or "K-2," Kloster said, though the bill lists the chemical composition rather than the trade names. Kloster said there have been numerous reports of incidents with those pseudo drugs...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/010911/loc_767647224.shtml
News
Partnership takes on cleanup of old mine's oil tanks

...storm water that has passed over the north tank over the last few decades was essentially clean. Because of its chemical composition, the bunker fuel inside the north tank was sandwiched between two layers of water, Janes said. Elizabeth Bluemink...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/100405/loc_20051004012.shtml
News
Rocket launching aimed at gaining insight into auroras

...turbulence and their effect on the chemical composition of the upper atmosphere...instruments that will measure chemical composition and turbulence as it travels...said, and will also measure chemical compositions at those points. Meanwhile...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/010702/sta_auroras.shtml
News

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