"A lot of soil science, at the moment, is done to about 30cm, partly for practical reasons as coring to a metre is difficult, " she said.

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In Washtenaw County and Ann Arbor, Michigan a 1, 4-Dioxane, in groundwater and surface soil contamination from Gelman Science, persists after nearly 20 years of cleanup activities and has now spread in groundwater to an area over three miles long and a mile wide.

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Another analysis, also published in the journal Science, looks at the amount of the isotope beryllium-10 in the lunar soil.

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But without thinking in advance and making use of modern science, authorities in almost all countries in the East as well as in the West burry waste in soil.

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