Ticking Bombs

When Sneath was invited to speak at a well-funded conference at the Hunt Botanical Library in Pittsburgh, he was so far from recognizing the ticking bomb set by Cuvier that... 

What should be in a crisis management plan for handling a workplace violence incident In their book Ticking Bombs Defusing Workplace Violence in the Workplace, Steve Albrecht and Michael Mantell provide the following list ... 

Albrecht, S. and Mantell, M. 1994. Ticking Bombs Defusing Violence in the Workplace. Burr Ridge, IL Irwin Professional Publishing. 

Discovered by Gregor in 1791 named by Klaproth in 1795. Impure titanium was prepared by Nilson and Pettersson in 1887 however, the pure metal (99.9%) was not made until 1910 by Hunter by heating TiCk with sodium in a steel bomb. 

Donoghue, A. (2000), A Software Licensing Time Bomb That May Soon Start Ticking, Computing, May 4. 

In the 1960s, Africa was the continent of hope. Unlike China and India, where population bombs ticked toward detonation, Africa faced no apparent Malthusian limits. It had plenty of land to support its population. 

In that sense, contamination by synthetic organic chemicals is like a water quality time bomb, ticking away for years under many communities before erupting in the form of a contaminated ground water supply". 

During the late 1980 s the public became generally aware of the fact that another chemical time bomb is ticking the chemical weapon (CW) munitions which were dumped after World War II in the Baltic and the North Sea. At the end of World War II, the Allies were faced with the problem of how to get rid of more than 300,000 tonnes of CW munitions which were left especially in Germany. The easiest and quickest solution was to load the weapons onto disabled ships and sink these ships in deep waters. Bombed and burned hulks were collected from all over northern Europe and patched up for their last journey. 

PricewaterhouseCoopers, "Minerals and Metals Scarcity m Manulacturing The Ticking Tune Bomb," December 2011, http //www.pwc.se/sv SE/se/metal-mming/ assets/mmerals-and-metals-scarcity-in-manulacturlng-the-ticking-tlme-bomb.pdl. 

Kaffka, A.V. (Ed.), January 1996. Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons Aspects, Problems and Solutions. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht ISBN 0-7923-4090-61996 Kirby, A., UK s Undersea Ticking Time-bombs . http //news.bbc.co.Uk/l/hi/sci/tech/4032629. 

Differences in the predicted penetration rate and depth of a pollutant plume depend not only on the choice of transport coefficients, but also on whether the contaminants are retained or retarded . The choice and nature of the transport coefficients used in the prediction model will describe the expected distribution and attenuation of the contaminants with time and space. Whether the attenuation is by retention or retardation mechanisms becomes the critical consideration and issue. In the first instance (i.e. retention), the attenuation of contaminants will lead to a successful containment of the pollutants in the substrate. In contrast, in the second instance (retardation), the retardation transport mechanism will result only in a postponement of the time for contamination of the aquifer, i.e. a ticking time bomb problem or a health hazard waiting to happen. 

Electrical trauma injuries are compared to slowly ticking time bombs. When a worker receives an electrical shock, damage to the nerves and muscles continues to progress long after the initial contact with the... 

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