In a laboratory vault outside Paris is a small cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy that serves as the standard for all mass measurements worldwide.

在巴黎郊外的一个实验室地下室中，有一个铂铱合金作的圆筒，这个圆筒就是作为世界上所有质量测量的标准。

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The core of a plasma torch is a pair of electrodes, usually made from a nickel-based alloy.

等离子体炬的核心部分是一对电极，通常用以镍为基础的合金制成。

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In one case, executives discovered a coating advertised as pure gold that masked a complex alloy, which included rare metals such as osmium, iridium, ruthenium and rhodium.

在一个案例中，业内高管发现一种号称纯金的涂层其实是一种复杂的合金，含有锇、铱、钌、铑等稀有金属。

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And you have this liquid alloy at 600 degrees centigrade, and it turns into a molten salt.

你得到了液态合金,在600度的时候，它就转变成熔融盐。

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When the passengers for D301 reached the platform, they encountered a vehicle that looked less like a train than a wingless jet: a tube of aluminum alloy, a quarter of a mile from end to end, containing sixteen carriages, painted in high-gloss white with blue racing stripes.

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However, a product I work with (a specific alloy) had a patent granted for its use in sporting goods.

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Last month it placed ads in college newspapers and on a campus billboard network for Summit Entertainment, which is promoting a film based on an Alloy book about a high school senior who drives across the country to meet a girl he met online.

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