On an industrial scale, cation exchange separates rare earth elements by means of a displacement technique in which each element displaces elements bound less strongly than it is as it proceeds down the column.
"These rich countries pollute the atmosphere," he says as a flash of anger displaces his jovial smile, "and then they profit from it".Making and unmaking paradiseIt sounds wrenching: peaceful denizens of a simple land in harmony with their environment, paying for others' wastefulness.
It thus displaces its host as the likely winner of the most-common-living-thing prize.That does depend, of course, on your definition of "living thing".
A more practical way forward is to support strong carbon prices, under which gas still displaces coal but finds it harder to replace genuinely low-carbon options.
They should not bring much rise in the sea level, since floating ice obeys Archimedes's principle and displaces its own mass of water.
Marijuana may have a beneficial side-effect: if pot-smoking displaces liquor-drinking, it might actually be good for public health.
This is because cheap gas does not just displace dirty coal, as it has been doing in America; it also displaces expensive renewables and nuclear.
He realised that the volume of an object can be measured by how much water it displaces, a discovery he is said to have made in the bath and which caused him to run naked through the streets of the city shouting "eureka" ("I have found it").
And we're going to try to do a hydroelectric dam that will be an example of how to offer opportunities to people who live in the region, not one that displaces them.
Mr Card has tested the idea that immigration displaces low-skilled natives and found scant evidence that it does.An alternative approach, pioneered by George Borjas, of Harvard University, is to tease out the effect of immigration from national wage statistics.
That power, in turn, displaces generation from sources with higher fuel costs, such as gas-fired plants.
