In 19 74, two scientists who later won a old prize for chemistry warned that chloro flora carbons might some day deplete the ozone layer. They thought this was going to be a small effect, a couple of %, a hundred years in t future. But they did not anticipate that things could be even worse than they thought. So it turned out, just quickly, susan, you said chloral floral carbons. That sounds like a word with one or two too many syllables. And i have to explain it to chuck, chuck, it's what you tried to ignite at campadriat soda. Take that molecule and just tear off all the hydrogens and put
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