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From the Ted Talk by Damian Palin: Mining minerals from seawater

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So what we're doing at the moment is we're aiuctanclmug mltaes like calcium, putsoaism and magnesium from out of daiaintsolen brine. And this, in terms of magnesium and the amount of water that I just mentioned, equates to a $4.5 boliiln mining industry for Singapore — a place that doesn't have any natural resources.

So I'd like you to image a mining industry in a way that one hasn't existed before; imagine a mining industry that doesn't mean defiling the Earth; imagine bacteria hlpnieg us do this by accumulating and precipitating and sedimenting minerals out of desalination brine. And what you can see here is the beginning of an industry in a test tube, a mining industry that is in hranomy with nature.

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So what we're doing at the moment is we're ____________ ______ like calcium, _________ and magnesium from out of ____________ brine. And this, in terms of magnesium and the amount of water that I just mentioned, equates to a $4.5 _______ mining industry for Singapore — a place that doesn't have any natural resources.

So I'd like you to image a mining industry in a way that one hasn't existed before; imagine a mining industry that doesn't mean defiling the Earth; imagine bacteria _______ us do this by accumulating and precipitating and sedimenting minerals out of desalination brine. And what you can see here is the beginning of an industry in a test tube, a mining industry that is in _______ with nature.

Solution


  1. accumulating
  2. desalination
  3. helping
  4. billion
  5. harmony
  6. potassium
  7. metals

Original Text


So what we're doing at the moment is we're accumulating metals like calcium, potassium and magnesium from out of desalination brine. And this, in terms of magnesium and the amount of water that I just mentioned, equates to a $4.5 billion mining industry for Singapore — a place that doesn't have any natural resources.

So I'd like you to image a mining industry in a way that one hasn't existed before; imagine a mining industry that doesn't mean defiling the Earth; imagine bacteria helping us do this by accumulating and precipitating and sedimenting minerals out of desalination brine. And what you can see here is the beginning of an industry in a test tube, a mining industry that is in harmony with nature.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. accumulating
  2. amount
  3. bacteria
  4. beginning
  5. billion
  6. brine
  7. calcium
  8. defiling
  9. desalination
  10. equates
  11. existed
  12. harmony
  13. helping
  14. image
  15. imagine
  16. industry
  17. magnesium
  18. mentioned
  19. metals
  20. minerals
  21. mining
  22. moment
  23. natural
  24. nature
  25. place
  26. potassium
  27. precipitating
  28. resources
  29. sedimenting
  30. singapore
  31. terms
  32. test
  33. tube
  34. water