Only if alpha were a smidgen smaller when the light passed through the gas cloud could such a pattern have been produced.

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The pattern partly reflects access to gas heating, with much of northern Scotland off the gas grid.

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Just as in a container, molecules in an inter-galactic gas cloud absorb certain wavelengths and leave a pattern of dark lines on a quasar's spectrum.

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The electronic nose is an array of nano-scale gas sensors--the maximized surface area of the nano-particles allows the most gas to pass over them--along with pattern recognition technology that can create a digital fingerprint (or noseprint, as the case may be) of specific smells.

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The well-established pattern of such development suggests that the natural gas discoveries to date represent only a fraction of the total recoverable resource.

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The dramatic migration pattern can be chalked up to the rapid development of an oil- and gas-rich shale formation in the western part of the state.

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