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This was accompanied by the (usual) lamentations over the “murder of a fine language,” the generally poor standard of English encountered in the newspapers and on radio and TV, and the observation that “children cannot spell or use the right tenses.”
Unlike sodium, free potassium reacts violently with water, liberating gaseous hydrogen ; but like sodium, potassium is rarely free and much more apt to be encountered in compounds.
One gets the impression that the editors of L used the good stuff from the W and substituted their own, much better material when they encountered some of the bad stuff.
I hadn't noticed who had written the essay till I encountered the following, barely three paragraphs into the writing:
This is not unexpected given the relatively small enhancements of the survival of the M. smegmatis recombinants and the numerous environmental stresses encountered in the macrophage.