So far, however, the rapid-prototyping machine simply produces an accurately shaped mould from which the plate is cast.
She also pointed out that additives are useful in food to keep food safe, for example by preventing mould from forming.
Ian Mould, 45, from Bedford, wants to honour thousands of men from the "Bedfords" who died in World War I.
Nigel Mould, 51, from Little Dalby, Leicestershire, was working at a farm near his home when the accident happened in August 2011.
Or it could be a piece of jewellery, cast from a mould made by a 3D printer or produced directly using a growing number of printable materials.
And because each item is created individually, rather than from a single mould, each can be made slightly differently at almost no extra cost.
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In a grubby room covered with mould, she fields phone calls from prospective brides and grooms.
So the pendulum may swing back towards someone in the mould of Jacques Delors, the president from 1985 to 1994.
Social commentator Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent said parents were under "enormous pressure" from schools and society to mould their children and oversee their achievements.
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That means the manuscript can be studied layer by layer, enabling the researchers to isolate the remains of the mathematical text from the prayers, the mould that has accumulated over the centuries and some mysterious paintings that were added the last time the book disappeared, after the first world war.
Brian Gutteridge, 67, from Caversham suffered fatal injuries at J Mould at Burghfield Bridge, near Reading, on 9 November, 2010.
Instead, you may be offered imitation bear's paw made from mutton pushed into a paw-shaped mould.
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Once a solid layer has formed at the top of the cauldron, the curds are cut then separated from the whey, pressed into a large mould and set to age in a high-humidity cellar.
Some of them suffer from February to June, sensitive not only to dust and mould but to most of Arizona's wild flowers and plants.
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United needed a creative player in the same mould as the suspended Paul Scholes, whose ability to spray the ball around and get forward from midfield was badly missed.
When police from Scotland raided the house in a joint operation with Merseyside Police, they found a press, a mould with plates, scales and a 25 kilogram drum of bulking agent.
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