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In natural English speech, "fossil" appears in contexts such as: "Consider, 8 or 9 million people a year die from breathing the combustion byproducts of fossil fuel. That's one death in five on this planet. But the Chinese cities whose air was so foul a few years ago that you couldn't see across the street are suddenly much". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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Consider, 8 or 9 million people a year die from breathing the combustion byproducts of

fossil fuel. That's one death in five on this planet.

But the Chinese cities whose air was so foul a few years ago that you couldn't see across the street are suddenly much

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noun

The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.

“With the permission of the Keeper of the fossil collection, therefore, the specimen was subjected to a further careful removal of the matrix in the requisite directions.”

noun

Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.

“He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.”

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