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The researchers looked at the different types, or isotopes, of oxygen atoms trapped in the samples and, using a well-established technique, were able to infer water temperatures at the time the organisms built their shelly parts.
BBC: Dinosaurs felt the heat
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To find out how warm the earth was before that, climatologists have had to resort to indirect methods, such as measuring tree-rings, or counting the different isotopes of oxygen in layers of polar ice.
ECONOMIST: The hole story of global warming
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Thus, it reasonably bars the export of HEU for use as reactor fuel or as targets to produce medical isotopes except on an interim basis to recipients who provide assurances that an alternative nuclear fuel or target will be used in their facilities whenever possible.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Kyl and Schumer move to monitor uranium exports