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This article claims that up to 30% of jet exhaust can be unburnt jet fuel. I thought this seemed unlikely to be true, so I looked up the source (Ritchie et al. 2003). Sure enough, the paper says that, but it's not an original source. Ritchie et al. cite that figure from a 2nd paper (Kelly et al.
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Is "contrail" a neologism or a military phrase? Back in the 70s and 80s, they were called "vapour trails". I've only heard the phrase contrail for the last five or maybe ten years, right around the time the "chemtrail" conspiracy crap started to blossom.
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