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I have a salt water pool (sodium chloride). These pools are equipped with an electric cell that turns the salt in the pool into chlorine. Since the chlorine evaporates... - Collaboration to Battle Prion-Related Diseases
NRC is joining forces with a national research network to help defeat infectious agents that cause disease through the misfolding of proteins called "prions."
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New NRCan Website Shines the Spotlight on World-Class NRCan Science.
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In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which sent an estimated 4.9 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico during three months in 2010, nature...
