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Sun 94 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Isolate atomic waste

Can you pleae exaplain to me what the underlined parts mean?

1.The repository site must be capable of isolating atomic waste for 10000 years.

2. He claims that he has rock -hard evidence that ground water was once as .

3..calcite , that plunge through the mottled, greay bedrock of Yucca Mountain. Ground water will rise again in the next 10000 years. It is as certain as death.
  

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sun 94 of isolating atomic waste keeping it completely contained, and away from the habitat and living things. calcite , that plunge through the need context. refers to something that can penetrate the rock.

— Avangi

  • sun 94 of isolating atomic waste keeping it completely contained, and away from the habitat and living things.
  • calcite , that plunge through the need context.
  • refers to something that can penetrate the rock.
  • Sounds like a mineral.
  • - some calcium salt.
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sun 94 of isolating atomic waste
keeping it completely contained, and away from the habitat and living things.
sun 94has rock -hard evidence
like "hard facts" - indisputable evidence; solid proof
sun 94.calcite , that plunge through the
need context. refers to something that can pen
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Avangi explained it all nicely. I'll just add that the calcite in your quote probably refers to "dissolved calcite", which transported by ground water percolate through the bedrock.
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Thanks, Ivanhr.

I wanted to look it up, but had to cut out. Your "solution" makes perfect sense. [Y] (pun intended)

- A.
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