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  • 131Biofuels-The Next Great Source of Energy? — ▪ 2008 by Clarence Lehman  A boom in the production of biofuel was under way in 2007, especially in the United States, where in January about 75 refineries for producing the biofuel ethanol from corn (maize) were being built or expanded. This… …

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  • 132BARRIER REEF, THE GREAT —    a slightly interrupted succession of coral reefs off the coast of Queensland, of 1200 m. extent, and 100 m. wide at the S., and growing narrower as they go N.; are from 70 to 20 m. off the coast, and protect the intermediate channel from the… …

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