And though Chile has developed new exports, copper made up 42% of its 1997 total.
It has floated the idea that everybody should be given the mobile phone number of their local copper and has made it easier for people to trigger inspections of their police force.
The lutetium oxide from which the crystals are made (in only a slightly updated process from the way we all made copper sulphate crystals in high school chemistry classes) all came from China.
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The Parsons show will feature a piece that now has special meaning to her: Two years ago, one of her friends made an edition of 10 prints from a copper-plate etching she had made.
At nearly 14%, the efficiency of the thin-film panels which are made from copper, indium, gallium and selenium (CIGS), is close to that of silicon, albeit being much cheaper to produce.
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Until recently the conversion was made using copper wire.
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The company is installing equipment at the new factory in Portland and bringing the machines online to roll out its solar panels, which contain a thin layer of solar cells made with copper, indium, gallium and selenium (CIGS).
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Many French horns, for example, are made of nickel silver, an alloy of copper, zinc, and nickel (it's silver in name and color only), and some are made of nickel bronze, an alloy of copper, tin, and nickel. (Brass itself is an alloy of copper and zinc.) Many brass instruments are silver-plated (sterling silver on brass), and some are gold-plated.
Like gold, oil and other commodities, copper mine supply growth has made little headway recently.
They were made of thin copper pieces, hinged together with hammered copper rims and decorated with enamel and paint.
It's never happened before that we've fired a very large bullet that's made largely of copper and aluminum, the size of a washing machine, at a comet that's about--the comet's nucleus is about four or five miles across--to make a big crater.
Among the technologies are new ways of making already-commercialized formulations, like amorphous silicon and cadmium telluride, and newer formulations like CIGS, named for the elements it is made out of, copper, indium, gallium and selenium, and CIS, which leaves out the gallium.
The coins are currently made from the nickel and copper alloy cupro-nickel.
The shoe monument, made of fiberglass and coated with copper, consists of the shoe and a concrete base.
For the Majorana experiment, physicists have made their own purified form of copper underground some of the purest on the planet and built an underground machine shop to make parts with the copper.
The building's majestic copper dome, he noted, had originally been made out of tile and apparently not very good tile, at that.
The guides, like those at Maker's Mark, stress the use of traditional methods: the slow fermentation of sour mash in vats made of cypress, the distillation in copper-pot stills (Labrot and Graham use three instead of the usual two), the regular sampling of barrels by discriminating imbibers with decades of experience, to achieve just the right taste.
The vases, about 10 inches high and three inches in diameter, are made of bronze, an alloy rich in copper.
The 20m (66 ft) cross is made of carbon and resin and will be finished in copper, gold and silver.
Helium-cooled superconducting coils, typically made of an alloy of niobium and titanium encased in copper cladding, create magnetic fields ten times stronger than similar-size permanent magnets can muster.
Up to 2500 rupees if you believe the rumours sweeping Pakistan that the humble coin had inadvertently been made with gold instead of the usual tiny percentage of copper.
The newest over-ear model from Scosche features the company's proprietary headphone design that utilizes 40mm drivers made from rare-earth neodymium magnets and precision wound copper voice coiling to create an incredibly accurate musical reproduction.
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The fibers are made by rolling conducting and insulating polymer films around a copper wire, which are then heated to about 200 degrees C (about 400 degrees F) and stretched out until soft and elastic.
Eximbank loans made in 1985 for several meat-processing plants, copper-processing facilities, a turnkey chemical complex, a color-television tube plant, a glass funnel facility, a process computer used in steel manufacturing, and a tractor factory remain unpaid.
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Two years ago, William Souder reports, the Audubon Museum in Kentucky made 250 fresh, arresting prints of snipes from an original Audubon copper plate.
HiPerforma is made with a solar cell technology called Pluto, which creates ultra thin copper lines that act as highways to transport the electricity produced by the cells.
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The British forces left with more than 500 ancient parchment manuscripts, two gold crowns, crosses and chalices in gold, silver and copper, religious icons, royal and ecclesiastic vestments as well as shields and arms made between the 14th and 19th centuries.
The cross is made of carbon and resin and will be finished in gold, silver and copper to reflect Cornwall's history of mining.
Given these advantages, copper-based products, such as IV poles and light-switch covers, are increasingly being made to prevent the spread of disease in hospitals and other institutions.
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