Buildings smoldered from fire and gas leaks bubbled up through brackish floodwater, occasionally catching fire and burning on the water surface.

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The dial-controlled technology and lower temperature made the oven easier to manage and allowed slices to be reheated without risk of burning bits of cheese on the cooking surface, which fouls the taste.

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"After hundreds of years orbiting the sun, they will enter our atmosphere at 90, 000 mph, burning up 50 miles above Earth's surface, " NASA said.

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When it came to the surface there might have been in-situ burning going on, there might have been mechanical skimming, there might have been dispersants being applied.

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And then you subtract from that the burning that has been done with the platform and the oil on the surface with the controlled burn, for example -- the application of dispersants, skimming operations and in situ.

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