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From the Ted Talk by Emily Parsons-Lord: Art made of the air we breathe

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So with all this thinking about air of the past, it's quite natural to start thinking about the air of the future. And instead of being stecviaplue with air and just making up what I think might be the fturue air, I dceseroivd this human-synthesized air. That means that it doesn't occur anywhere in narute, but it's made by humans in a laboratory for appitioclan in different industrial settings.

Why is it future air? Well, this air is a really stable molecule that will lltiarley be part of the air once it's released, for the next 300 to 400 years, before it's broken down. So that's about 12 to 16 gineanretos. And this future air has some very sensual qualities. It's very heavy. It's about eight times heavier than the air we're used to breathing. It's so heavy, in fact, that when you breathe it in, whatever words you speak are kind of literally heavy as well, so they dribble down your chin and drop to the floor and soak into the cckras. It's an air that opeartes quite a lot like a liquid.

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So with all this thinking about air of the past, it's quite natural to start thinking about the air of the future. And instead of being ___________ with air and just making up what I think might be the ______ air, I __________ this human-synthesized air. That means that it doesn't occur anywhere in ______, but it's made by humans in a laboratory for ___________ in different industrial settings.

Why is it future air? Well, this air is a really stable molecule that will _________ be part of the air once it's released, for the next 300 to 400 years, before it's broken down. So that's about 12 to 16 ___________. And this future air has some very sensual qualities. It's very heavy. It's about eight times heavier than the air we're used to breathing. It's so heavy, in fact, that when you breathe it in, whatever words you speak are kind of literally heavy as well, so they dribble down your chin and drop to the floor and soak into the ______. It's an air that ________ quite a lot like a liquid.

Solution


  1. literally
  2. future
  3. nature
  4. discovered
  5. cracks
  6. generations
  7. speculative
  8. operates
  9. application

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So with all this thinking about air of the past, it's quite natural to start thinking about the air of the future. And instead of being speculative with air and just making up what I think might be the future air, I discovered this human-synthesized air. That means that it doesn't occur anywhere in nature, but it's made by humans in a laboratory for application in different industrial settings.

Why is it future air? Well, this air is a really stable molecule that will literally be part of the air once it's released, for the next 300 to 400 years, before it's broken down. So that's about 12 to 16 generations. And this future air has some very sensual qualities. It's very heavy. It's about eight times heavier than the air we're used to breathing. It's so heavy, in fact, that when you breathe it in, whatever words you speak are kind of literally heavy as well, so they dribble down your chin and drop to the floor and soak into the cracks. It's an air that operates quite a lot like a liquid.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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climate change 3
easily forgotten 2
million years 2
oxygen levels 2
start thinking 2


Important Words


  1. air
  2. application
  3. breathe
  4. breathing
  5. broken
  6. chin
  7. cracks
  8. discovered
  9. dribble
  10. drop
  11. fact
  12. floor
  13. future
  14. generations
  15. heavier
  16. heavy
  17. humans
  18. industrial
  19. kind
  20. laboratory
  21. liquid
  22. literally
  23. lot
  24. making
  25. means
  26. molecule
  27. natural
  28. nature
  29. occur
  30. operates
  31. part
  32. qualities
  33. released
  34. sensual
  35. settings
  36. soak
  37. speak
  38. speculative
  39. stable
  40. start
  41. thinking
  42. times
  43. words
  44. years