input question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The can is taken to a recycling center - Melted down along with other cans - The melted metal is turned into bars - Becomes material for other products.???
output answer: A can is thrown away into a recycling bin

What is the missing first step of the following process: - Steam is produced under pressure - Flows into a turbine - The turbine spins - Creates electricity.
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Answer: Coal is burned in a boiler

Q: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The lungs have a series of smaller and finer tubes and sacs - Air reaches the smallest and finest air sacs called alveoli - Oxygen travels from the alveoli into the blood - Oxygen-rich blood is carried to the heart - Oxygen-rich blood is pumped throughout the body by the heart - Cells take in the oxygen rich blood and release carbon dioxide rich blood - The carbon dioxide rich blood travels to the lungs - Carbon dioxide travels through the throat and is exhaled.
A: Air enters the nose or mouth and travels through the windpipe into the lungs

Question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - Miners enter the mine - Miners remove the coal from the mine - The coal is placed into carts or on a conveyor belt - The coal is moved up to the surface - The coal is loaded onto a truck - The truck takes the coal to a power station.
Answer: A mine is excavated in the side of a mountain

[Q]: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The atoms become unstable - The atoms split - In alpha decay, two protons and two neutrons are released from the atom - In beta decay, a neutron changes into a proton and an electron - The proton joins the nucleus of the atom - The electron is released -
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[A]: The nuclei of some atoms have too few or too many neutrons

Problem: Given the question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The stomach churns the food - With the aid of stomach acids - The food becomes a thick liquid - Is then passed to the small intestine.
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The answer is:
Food leaves the esophagus and enters the stomach