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Ammonia Leak Cause Death And Mass Evacuations In China
Beijing (AFP) Nov 01, 2006 Twenty thousand people were evacuated in central China after a leak of poisonous ammonia gas at a fertilizer factory left one dead and six critically injured, state media reported on Wednesday. A factory worker died at the site after a pipe burst at the factory, owned by the Huangmailing Phosphorus Chemical Industry Group Company, in Hubei province at about 7:50 am (2350GMT Tuesday), Xinhua news agency said. Three other workers were critically ill along with a fire-fighter, a 16-year-old girl and a pregnant woman in a nearby village in Dawu county, it said. Schools and houses nearby were immediately evacuated while fire-fighters sprayed water into the air in shifts to clear the gas. However, the water then flowed into the Huanhe river creating "super-high" levels of ammonia and nitrogen and threatening supplies downstream, Xinhua said. The leak was shut off at 8:40 am and residents were returning home by the evening, although the smell of ammonia still lingered in the air. Chemical leaks are a frequent occurrence in China as factories, some of them crumbling from years without maintenance, strain to meet the demands of a fast-paced economy.
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Milwaukee WI (SPX) Oct 30, 2006Hoping to find new ways of addressing environmental pollution, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has developed some novel ways to observe what happens inside a cell when it comes in contact with contaminants or when toxic substances touch soil and water. An object's molecules and electrons are always in motion, vibrating and wiggling. |
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