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The main growing areas for badey are North Dakota, Montana, eastern South Dakota, and western Minnesota six-row badey is predominant. Increasingly significant areas are California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Colorado, where predominandy two-row badey is produced. Less than one-half of the badey grown in the United States is processed by the malt industry the remainder is used as animal feed, and ca 80% of the badey used by the malting industry is the six-tow variety (2—5) (see Feeds and feed additives, pet foods). 

California and Minnesota have placed restrictions on the disposal of fluorescent light tubes, which contain from 40—50 mg of mercury per tube, depending on size. After batteries, fluorescent lamps are the second largest contributor of mercury in soHd waste streams in the United States (3,14). A California law classifies the disposal of 25 or more fluorescent lamp tubes as hazardous waste. In Minnesota, all waste lamps generated from commercial sources are considered hazardous waste. Private homes are, however, exempt from the law (14). Other states have proposed similar regulations. Several companies have developed technologies for recovering mercury from spent lamps (14). 

Future Sources. Lateritic ores (7) are becoming increasingly important as a source of nickel, and cobalt is a by-product. In the United States, laterites are found in Minnesota, California, Oregon, and Washington. Deposits also occur in Cuba, Indonesia, New Caledonia, the Philippines, Venezuela, Guatemala, AustraUa, Canada, and Russia (see Nickel and nickel alloys). 

PCTFE is marketed by Hoechst as Hostaflon C2 and in the United States by Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (Kel-F) and Allied Chemical (Halon). Typical values for various physical properties are given in Table 13.1. 

Heusser, C. J. 1983. Vegetational history of the northwestern United States including Alaska. Pages 239-258 in S. C. Porter (ed.) Late-quaternary Environments of the United States. Vol. 1. The late Pleistocene. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

Counard CJ. 2000. Mercury exposure and effects on Common Loon Gavia immer) behavior in the Upper Midwestern United States. University of Minnesota. MS thesis. 

Hart, A.E. and Kitchens, C.L. (2011) Reverse micelle synthesis of monodispersed metallic nanopartides via a gas expanded liquid system. Presented at the AIChE 2011 Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. 

Gold-antimony ores usually contain stibnite (1.5—4.0% Sb), pyrite, arsenopyrite, gold (1.5—3.0g/t) and silver (40-150g/t). Several plants in the United States (i.e. Stibnite/ Minnesota and Bradly) and Russia have been in operation for some time. There are two commercial processes available for treatment of these ores ... 

Iron ores are found in many countries. A major but diminishing source in the United States is the Mesabi Range in Minnesota, which has produced over two billion tons of ore since it was first opened in 1884. Iron ores are also found in Alabama and Pennsylvania. Iron is found throughout most of the universe, in most of the stars, and in our sun, and it probably exists on the other planets of our solar system. 

No information was located regarding 2,3-benzofuran in surface water in the United States. 2,3-Benzofuran was detected in contaminated groundwater at a coal-tar distillation and wood-preserving facility in Minnesota (Rostad et al. 1985). 

Charles Hinton studied mathematics at Oxford, married Mary Boole (one of the daughters of famous logician Geoge Boole), and then moved to the United States after being convicted of bigamy. He taught mathematics at Princeton University and the University of Minnesota. In 1907, Hinton published An Episode of Flatland (a work more scientific than Abbott s Flatland) in which 2-D creatures resided on the surface of a circular world called Astria. Gravity behaves as it does in our world, except that on the plane its force varies inversely with distance instead of with the square of distance. 

ECT use also varied widely by geographic region. For example, patients in the north central states (Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas) were approximately four times more likely to receive ECT than patients in the mountain states (Montana, Idaho, V oming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada). These differences are supported by data from the American Psychiatric Association s Professional Activities Survey, which show that rates varied from 0.4 to 81.2 patients per 10,000 population in the 202 metropolitan areas in which ECT use was reported ( 138). Of note, no ECT use was reported in 115 metropolitan areas. In addition, an analysis of these data found that less than 8% of all psychiatrists in the United States provide ECT ( 139). Finally, depressed... 

Hubert Humphrey, Democratic senator from Minnesota from 1949 to 1964, and again from 1971 to 1978, and vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. A pharmacist before going into politics, Humphrey cosponsored the 1951 Prescription Drug Amendment that defined the distinction between prescription drugs that required supervision by a physician and OTC drugs. The law remains a key to the system of prescription drugs today. 

There are over 40 aquifers in the United States, located in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Utah, and Washington. Three unusual reservoirs have been developed an abandoned coal mine in Colorado and salt domes in Michigan and Mississippi. 

B.R. Folsom Gray Freshwater Biological Institute, University of Minnesota, Navarre, MN 55392, United States of America. 

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