Ship Florida

An "amazing amount of trash", mostly plastic objects, is stranded on the Atlantic coast of Florida during onshore winds, particularly in winter (55). While some of this debris was of United States origin (from local sources or from entrainment in the Florida Current of wastes from shipping), the remainder was of Venezuelan, Columbian, and Jamaican origin. Debris from the easternmost Caribbean and the northern coast of South America could be transported to the Atlantic coast of Florida by the Guiana and Antilles Currents in about four months. Alternatively, debris from the southern or southwestern part of the Caribbean could be carried by the Caribbean Current via the Yucatan Channel and Straits of Florida to the Atlantic coast of Florida in as little as two months. 

The U.S. Coast Guard plays an important role in intercepting ships and boats used to bring drugs ashore, such as in Florida. 

Five modules of the Telkes tilted single-effect still, totaling 500 sq. feet, will be constructed by the Curtiss-Wright Corp. and shipped, unassembled, to the Florida station. The tilted single-effect still is essentially a black absorbent fabric supported at an angle by an impermeable sheet of plastic or metal and surrounded by a transparent cover above and an opaque cover below. 

The Bjorksten plastic envelope-type still will be built of several modules totaling 600 sq. feet. It will consist of an almost vertical, black-fabric absorber-evaporator surrounded on all sides by a transparent plastic envelope. The concept of this still is similar to that of the Telkes still, except that there is no impermeable film on the underside of the absorber the entire cover is composed of plastic film. Bjorksten Laboratories will construct the modules and ship them, unassembled, to the Florida station. 

The reaction happens quickly All the fuel in the solid rocket boosters is used up in about two minutes. When all of the propellant is used up, the boosters separate from the shuttle and fall back to Earth and into the Atlantic Ocean, where a ship picks them up and tows them back to Florida so they can be reused. About 71 % of the upward thrust needed to get the shuttle into orbit comes from the solid rocket boosters. 

To reveal the extent of the adulteration problem, three national surveys were conducted by the Florida Department of Citrus from June 1979 through February 1980. The samples (FCOJ and SSOJ packed outside of Florida) were obtained from the retail market by Department of Citrus field personnel and shipped to our laboratory for analyses. In the second survey, 26 of 55 FCOJ samples tested were identified after analysis from container codes as packed in Florida—none had revealed any type of adulteration. 

University of Florida researchers. The sample was bagged and shipped in a refrigerated container to our laboratory where it was stored in a freezer until used. 

Limited data indicate that the total production costs for all Florida mines in 1995 was about 17/short ton ( 18.74/tonne) of concentrate. During 1995, average prices for all grades of phosphate rock f.o.b. central Florida were 22- 24/short ton ( 24.25- 26.45/ tonne). In 1995 Florida phosphate rock shipped f.o.b. from Tampa cost 32- 34/shortton ( 35.27- 40.78/ tonne) for 68-BPL rock and 36- 38/short ton ( 39.68- 41.89/tonne) for 72-BPL rock-... 

The ammonia liquid arrives at the Tampa Bay Port by ship and is unloaded into either the Royster refrigerated ammcxiia storage terminal or a newer International-Mineral Company terminal on the Florida west shore. The Tampa Bay office arxi pumpir station is located about 5 km east of the two terminals. 

One of us (MAD) wishes to acknowledge support for this work by the University of Florida, Division of Sponsored Research, through a research assistant ship. We also wish to thank Professor Y. Okamoto for making available to us the synthetic procedures for the preparation of trityl methacrylate. 

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