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- II The Airborne Toxic Event .†
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- It must be pretty toxic or pretty explosive stuff, or both.†
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- It's called Nyodene Derivative or Nyodene D. It was in a movie we saw in school on toxic wastes.†
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- The airborne toxic event.†
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- I don't see myself fleeing an airborne toxic event.†
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- Toxic event, chemical cloud.†
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- Toxic event, chemical cloud.†
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- A woman identified as a consumer affairs editor began a discussion of the medical problems that could result from personal contact with the airborne toxic event.†
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- It was the black billowing cloud, the airborne toxic event, lighted by the clear beams of seven army helicopters.†
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- It was a terrible thing to see, so close, so low, packed with chlorides, benzines, phenols, hydrocarbons, or whatever the precise toxic content.†
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- The road curved away from the toxic cloud and traffic moved more freely for a while.†
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- It was said that we would be allowed to go home first thing in the morning; that the government was engaged in a cover-up; that a helicopter had entered the toxic cloud and never reappeared; that the dogs had arrived from New Mexico, parachuting into a meadow in a daring night drop; that the town of Farmington would be uninhabitable for forty years.†
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- He was talking about the airborne toxic event in a technical way, although his voice all but sang with prophetic disclosure.†
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- My guess is they'll get some crop dusters up in the air at daybreak and bombard the toxic cloud with lots more soda ash, which could break it up and scatter it into a million harmless puffs.†
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- He's telling them what he knows about the toxic event.†
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- At the front of the hall a woman was saying something about exposure to toxic agents.†
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- This is Nyodene D. A whole new generation of toxic waste.†
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- Forced out of our homes, sent streaming into the bitter night, pursued by a toxic cloud, crammed together in makeshift quarters, ambiguously death-sentenced.†
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- I told him I'd spent two and a half minutes exposed to the toxic cloud.†
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- It's no wonder they call this thing the airborne toxic event.†
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- The toxic event had released a spirit of imagination.†
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- Toxic, toxic, heading here.†
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- Toxic, toxic, heading here.†
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- Again the voice spoke, like singsong patter on a department-store loudspeaker, amid the perfumed counters and chiming bells: "Toxic, toxic.†
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- Again the voice spoke, like singsong patter on a department-store loudspeaker, amid the perfumed counters and chiming bells: "Toxic, toxic.†
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- Through the stark trees we saw it, the immense toxic cloud, lighted now by eighteen choppers-- immense almost beyond comprehension, beyond legend and rumor, a roiling bloated slug-shaped mass.†
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- I wanted them to pay attention to the toxic event.†
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- The toxic event was still in view, chemical tracers shooting in slow arcs out of its interior.†
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- Technicians were being lowered in slings from army helicopters in order to plant microorganisms in the core of the toxic cloud.†
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- These organisms were genetic recombinations that had a builtin appetite for the particular toxic agents in Nyodene D. They would literally consume the billowing cloud, eat it up, break it down, decompose it.†
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- No one seemed to know how a group of microorganisms could consume enough toxic material to rid the sky of such a dense and enormous cloud.†
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- No one knew what would happen to the toxic waste once it was eaten or to the microorganisms once they were finished eating.†
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- You think there's no chance a bunch of organisms can eat their way through the toxic event.†
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- The airborne toxic event is a horrifying thing.†
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- Ever since the air borne toxic event, the sunsets had become almost unbearably beautiful.†
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- The dogs have sniffed out only a few traces of toxic material on the edge of town.†
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- Every day on the news there's another toxic spill.†
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- Perhaps deja vu and other tics of the mind and body were the durable products of the airborne toxic event.†
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- I had my second medical checkup since the toxic event.†
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- People with electronic equipment appeared to be trying to detect radiation or toxic fallout.†
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- Could be the toxic residue in the atmosphere is diminishing.†
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- Toxic material in the air or water.†
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- Ever since the airborne toxic event, our neighbors, the Stovers, had been keeping their car in the driveway instead of the garage, keeping it facing the street, keeping the key in the ignition.†
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Definition:
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(toxic) poisonous or harmful