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Turoszów Coal Basin The powers of 10
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How Invisible Aerosols Connect in Earth's Atmosphere
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Even something as simple as breathing can get complicated.
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Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada: wildfire
Smoke rising from a wildfire raging outside Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, May 2016.
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Turoszów Coal Basin
Turów coal-fired power plant near Bogatynia, in the Turoszów Coal Basin, Poland.
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The powers of 10
Examples from biological and mechanical realms illustrate various “orders of magnitude”...
Illustration: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.; photographs:(microelectromechanical devices) Courtesy Sandia National Laboratories, SUMMiT™ Technologies; (quantum corral) courtesy IBM Research Center, unauthorized used not permitted; (red blood cells) Susumu Nishinaga/Science Source; (human hair) Manfred Kage/Peter Arnold, Inc.; (dust mite) Andrew Syred/Science Source
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