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  2. Carbon dioxide - Wikipedia

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    The body produces approximately 2.3 pounds (1.0 kg) of carbon dioxide per day per person, [72] containing 0.63 pounds (290 g) of carbon. In humans, this carbon dioxide is carried through the venous system and is breathed out through the lungs, resulting in lower concentrations in the arteries .

  3. Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    With radiocaesium binding less with humic acid, peaty soils than the known binding "fixation" that occurs on kaolinite-rich clay soils, many marshy areas of Ukraine had the highest soil to dairy-milk transfer coefficients, of soil activity in ~ 200 kBq/m 2 to dairy milk activity in Bq/L, that had ever been reported, with the transfer, from ...

  4. Top Gear challenges - Wikipedia

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    The presenters' cars were then put to test around the Top Gear track, which included beating the Stig's lap in the Vauxhall Astra diesel, clearing a crash site in less than two minutes, and then stopping the Stig in a police chase (the latter driving a BMW 7-Series) "Without using £125,000 worth of Volvo, the RAF, and 16 health and safety forms."

  5. Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Native species include deciduous trees such as oak, ash, hazel, birch, alder, willow, aspen, rowan and hawthorn, as well as evergreen trees such Scots pine, yew, holly and strawberry trees. [136] Only about 10% of Ireland today is woodland; [ 12 ] most of this is non-native conifer plantations , and only 2% is native woodland.

  6. Woolly mammoth - Wikipedia

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    Females reached 2.3–2.6 m (7 ft 7 in – 8 ft 6 in) in shoulder heights and weighed between 2.8–4 t (2.8–3.9 long tons; 3.1–4.4 short tons). A newborn calf weighed about 90 kg (200 lb). The woolly mammoth was well adapted to the cold environments present during glacial periods, including the last ice age. It was covered in fur, with an ...