BIO220H1 Lecture Notes - Water Cycle, Hectare, Guano
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The connection between nuclear weapons and ecological research. The idea was that the conflict was so severe that the idea of nuclear war was inevitable. The fear was that the fallout, the nuclear radioactive isotopes would absorb into crops. The idea is that the effects of radionuclide (atom with unstable elements) fallout. The hydrogen bomb had furthermore replaced the atom bomb, severing the issue. There was a widespread paranoia or fear behind this, motivating the politics, economic and social structures of many countries. A pine forest in long island was radiated gamma rays, looking at the consequences of this. One fortuitous side effect is that radioactive tracers allows for tracing chemicals through natural communities. Manhattan project was the hallmark big science project. Many large organic molecules are constantly being broken down, synthesized and consumed. Chemical elements undergo cycles, instead of being created or destroyed they are instead moved around into different compartments.
