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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Very slight soiling in a few places on the covers. Pages lightly toned. Very little wear otherwise inside or out. Will be backed with cardboard and carefully packed in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: Superphenix: A Full-Scale Breeder Reactor: The 250-megawatt Phenix has worked well. Superphenix will be its 1,200-megawatt successor by George A. Vendryes; Waves in the Solar Wind: As the tenuous atmosphere of the sun expands, waves form in it that break like waves on a beach by J. T. Gosling and A. J. Hundhausen; Opiate Receptors and Internal Opiates: Morphine exerts its effects by binding to specific receptor sites in the brain and the spinal cord by Solomon H. Snyder; Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Only a few bacteria and simple algae can fix atmospheric nitrogen by converting it into ammonia by Winston J. Brill; The Acoustics of the Singing Voice: Like other musical instruments the voice has a power supply, an oscillator and a resonator by Johan Sundberg; The Oldest Rocks and the Growth of Contients: Greenland rocks 3.75 billion years old suggest the contients have grown since they were formed by Stephen Moorbath; Flashlight Fishes: These odd fish light up the water with an organ under each eye containing luminescent bacteria by John E. McCosker; The Earliest Maya: Excavations in Belize (formerly British Honduras) push the origin of the Maya back to 2500 B.C. by Norman Hammond; plus Letters; 50 and 100 Years Ago; The Authors; Science and the Citizen; Mathematical Games; Books and Bibliography.