The spheres are then dissolved to leave a 3D-metal scaffold onto which a nickel-tin alloy is added to form the anode, and a mineral called manganese oxyhydroxide to form the cathode.
He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack.
Chris Bentley wanted to take part in this special ritual last year but could only get his hands on a half-eaten tin of baked beans.
She lived with four other adopted children in a ramshackle, tin-roofed hut that would flood during heavy rains. ("We put bricks on the floor to walk around, " she says.) She still remembers selling all her toys at age 4 to neighborhood kids to help make ends meet.
Other highlights of celebrations later will include a tribute to the tin mining days with a bal-maidens' and miners' dance featuring 250 local school children.
He holds a silver tin of emerald-green spinach that could also be a pot of money.
There was a paddock with sun on it, he said, and they sat there munching their stale sandwiches and drinking a tin of Pepsi-Cola each.
Primerica's history dates back to the booming 1980s, when celebrated investor Gerald Tsai turned an aluminum- and tin-can maker American Can into a financial services company.
In 1989, he formed a band, Tin Machine, to play low-key club gigs - but met with a lukewarm response.
To make a basketball analogy, it's a bit like when your tin-armed, non-jump-shooting center gets the ball near the three-point line: You know he won't shoot or thread the ball into the post, so you have a moment's respite while he looks for a guard to bail him out.
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His dumbbell, made of cast iron, weighed a hundred and seventy-two pounds and had a handle as thick as a tin can, difficult to grasp.
That is mainly a benefit of the devalued rupiah -- tin is quoted in dollars.
Investors flocked to the safety of long-term government bonds, providing a tin lining to the darkening clouds over the economy.
Stuffed shirts with a tin ear have no place in the ultra-high net worth advisory industry.
These so-called safes are designed to camouflage your treasure--a can of Coke, say, or a tin of soup.
In some parts of the city, hawkers, newspaper delivery boys, roller-skaters, even those who carelessly kicked a tin can down the street were targeted.
The world's largest tin-mining company is positioned primarily as a foreign exchange play.
The 21-year-old had used bold red to paint a poem on tin.
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So, go ahead and get the first-grader a Firefly if you must (we prefer two tin cans and a very long length of cord).
Goldman Sachs showed a typical tin ear by withdrawing its sponsorship of a fund-raiser for a credit union (financial co-operative) on November 3rd because it planned to honour Occupy Wall Street.
Other locals have embraced the new -- and highly controversial -- Black Forest gateau that can be found in a tin, the brainchild of baker Johannes Ruf who runs the Holzoffenbaeckerei in St Peter.
Sony, for example, uses a blend of tin and other materials for some of its lithium-ion batteries.
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Pierre Pierre Blais, code-named "Tin Tin", is one of a large First Aid contingent patrolling the ice.
Mr. Byrd estimates that New York audiences for his "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" were 70% to 80% African-American, slightly better than the turnout for "Stick Fly, " the chronicle of an affluent black family during a complicated weekend on Martha's Vineyard.
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She added that he was also offered him a tin of ravioli which was almost a year past its sell-by date.
In an industry filled with tin-eared salespeople and guys in labcoats, Bertarelli was a dashing figure, complete with a beautiful blonde British wife, Kristy, and an obsession with sailboat racing.
Aluminum and tin also fell to seven-week lows Monday, while nickel hit a nearly 10-week low and zinc hit an eight-week low.
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Bradford Roos' 1, 500-square-foot office supply store, Business as Usual, is a relic, housed under a tin roof in Ketchum, Idaho.
When Gamble exhibited an array of canned foods at the Great Exhibition in 1851, to widespread approval, it must have seemed like the tin can's switch from military necessity to household must-have was only a matter of time.
So in June 1995 he turned his back on his 110-foot yacht and a languid Greek summer, and instead sat next to the toilets in a tin shed at Luton airport 30 miles north of London, launching a discount airline modeled after America's Southwest Airlines.
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