The thing is that glass itself, what we use to make bottles and so on, is made of metals: but metal oxides.
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But a metal detector can't detect the kind of explosives that were sewn into his clothes.
He uses the Entrust Group in Oakland, Calif. as custodian, but the metal is stored with a bullion dealer near his Tampa, Fla. home.
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Stocks are riding an impressive streak, but the precious metal has been going nowhere fast.
The problem is no longer the cost of the ceramic itself, but of the metal casing.
But the yellow metal will be a hot topic in the next 24 months.
"But anyone taking metal into a scrap metal yard now has to produce some form of photograph identification, " Det Supt Northcott said.
It was supposed to be a convertible, but the concertina metal bits that supported the canvas top were too rusted to fold back.
This is different from most ETFs, in which investors gain exposure to the price of a metal but do not take actual physical delivery.
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But the precious metal is not just underground, it's also in the "tailings" - heaps of grey-white residue left behind by old mining activity.
The objects themselves are plain and they're made out of rusty metal but together, what they do as a pattern, creates a warmth and romance.
So its boss, Peter Matthews, has spent the week in Greece, where he says he is continuing to buy metal but will no longer sell it in that hapless, debt-ridden country.
The NIA's Capability of the UK Nuclear New Build Supply Chain study said that with investment, British firms are capable of supplying 90% of the components for new nuclear plants, but the largest metal forgings and some specialist reactor parts would need to be imported.
But with precious-metal prices recently hitting a 26-year high, he is a changed man.
When constructing computer circuits, most folks start with silicon and metal, but not the researchers at Stanford.
She wouldn't be coming up the building's main escalator, but rather through a metal door adjacent to a photographers' pen.
Platinum also has some characteristics of a precious metal, but its primary use is industrial, specifically catalytic converters in motor vehicles.
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Yes, people received dollars in return for their holdings of the yellow metal, but the dollar itself was formally devalued by 40%.
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Exchange-traded funds like the IAU and GLD offer quick exposure to the metal, but the real action is in the mining and exploration companies.
In order to prosecute, the police can also try to prove a merchant has knowingly handled stolen metal - but that can be difficult.
Alas, the silicon metal restrictions constitute a big problem for Dow Corning and other industrial consumers of silicon metal, but a bigger problem for the economy.
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It involves taking oxygen to the fuel not as a gas, but bound to a metal such as iron or calcium, and should in principle make combustion more efficient.
On "Stuck on the Treadmill, " for example, he plays a beefy riff in unison with Mr. Prodaniuk, a technique that found its way into early heavy metal, but which Mr. Thompson said is common in Celtic folk.
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This problem explains why metal money has circulated not in lumps but as coins, with a regulated amount of metal in each coin.
But looking ahead, the metal printing technique could also be used to help miniaturise devices.
It seemed to be made of grey metal, shiny but rough, like emery paper.
It was not a reactor, but rather a hunk of metal emitting radiation.
But even in that one metal where I really am a global expert I almost never sell the metal.
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