One day in 1995 in Allen Good's laboratory in Edmonton, Alberta, a student made a serendipitous mistake: she forgot to add nitrogen when she watered some experimental canola (rapeseed) plants.

1995年的一天，在位于艾伯塔省埃德蒙顿的艾伦·古德实验室里，一个学生犯了一个偶然发现的错误：她在给实验用的油菜(油菜籽)浇水的时候，忘记了添加氮元素。

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A city of western Alberta, Canada, northwest of Edmonton. It is a trade center in a farming region. Population, 24, 2 '3.

加拿大亚伯达省西部城市，位于埃德蒙顿西北，为农业地区的交易中心。人口24,2 ' 3。

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Alberta is located in the Mountain Standard Time Zone. 12 o 'clock at Noon in Edmonton is 2 p. m. Eastern Standard Time.

阿尔伯达位于山地标准时时区。埃德蒙顿中午12点即东部标准时间下午2点。

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Getting there took hours upon hours of flight time, one thousand miles north of now oil-boom-town Edmonton, Alberta, flying over an unending expanse of trees, lakes and rocky mineral-laden terrain.

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In a breakthrough development in 2000, scientists in Edmonton, Alberta devised a way to transfer cell clusters called islets from the pancreas of a dead person to that of a diabetic such that the islets still produce insulin.

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During the spill, three shifts of employees monitoring the pipeline from the command center in Edmonton, Alberta, received multiple warning alarms, but dismissed them as being caused by column separation, or bubbles of vapor in the pipeline, according to the NTSB investigation.

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