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Over tens of millions of years, this pocket of warm, unstable rock slowly migrated to its current position at a pace of about 20 km per million years.

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Walk around it, and the shifting, light-reflective and -absorbent white forms create an uncanny illusion of the pillar in jumpy, unstable motion.

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But he says that Peru's unstable national governments make change difficult.

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A further challenge to testing for 7-OH, specifically, is that the compound is “incredibly unstable,” she said.

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They wanted one that would address the trauma of an unstable childhood they felt was driving his angry, impulsive behavior.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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