It is also used in heat-treating, smelting, and refining metals. ... Waves, breaking along the shore, filled the holes with brine. ... Land absorbs and releases heat from the ! ... But the oceans absorb and release the sun's heat slowly. ...

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Imagine summer is coming, the sun is hot, the waves are up, and there is a sign saying, ""beach closed to contaminated water."" ... For every degree we lower our heat in a 60-degree to 70-degree range, we save up to 5% on heating costs. ...

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This allows more warm surface water to flow eastward, which brings with it more rain, which leads to a further decrease of pressure in the east because the latent heat of condensation warms the air...and the cycle Atmospheric Consequences of El Niño influencing weather patterns worldwide During an El Niño year, tropical rains usually centered over Indonesia shift eastward, influencing atmospheric wind patterns world wide. ... (This intensification is represented by the increased amplitude of the wave in the right panel below). ...

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ACID RAIN ACID RAIN "Statues dissolving and guns rusting, children choking and soil becoming poisoned, trees withering, rocks blackening. And the trout float belly-up" (Pawlick 184). These are some of the disastrous effects caused by acid rain. In North America this cancer eats into the very hea...

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