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Since cosmic radiation alters surface composition, Curiosity can drill into rock to extract pristine material from below.
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Dredging: excavation, digging, scraping, draglining, suction dredging to emove sand, silt, rock or other underwater sea-bottom material.
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To make such planets, a star needs solid material pieces of rock interspersed with iron that can collide and stick together and not just gas.
ECONOMIST: Planetary formation
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If disaster strikes and a LFTR springs a leak, the spill cools to an inert lump of rock, chemically locking all the nuclear material inside.
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But popular groups not quite big enough to make the "Rock Band" playlist are also preparing material for the do-it-yourself upload store, including Creed and Evanescence, each of which has sold tens of millions of albums in the past decade.
WSJ: MTV Games Seeks Buzz for 'Rock Band'
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The rock world generally expects artists to compose their own material.
NPR: Sun Kil Moon: 'Tiny Cities'
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Marsalis, JLCO's music director, said he was impressed by the amount of time the rock trio spent rehearsing the complex arrangements in order to master material outside their comfort zone.
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For instance, at George Tech they're trying to turn garbage into lava rock so it can be used for everything from paving roads to construction material for buildings.
CNN: Fuelling our future
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Each material has a unique "seismic velocity, " which helps determine the difference between rock and oil.
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Carbo Ceramics is a leader in making what's called ceramic proppant, which is the synthetic material, sand-based often, with chemicals that are injected into the fractured rock to hold open the cavities so the natural gas goes up into the piping that captures it.
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The guitar riffs could be in a variety of garage-rock or even dance songs the group has flirted with both styles but are pounded into Fall material by drum patterns that rarely change.
NEWYORKER: Plug and Play