They have been embedded in materials like plastics to increase their toughness and provide electrical conductivity for components that are electrostatically painted.

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They mean cheaper gas fill-ups, the survival of the airline and travel industry, and eventually cheaper materials and transportation costs embedded into every consumer and industrial product in early 2009.

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They were built of substances meant to mimic biological materials and had radiation sensors embedded throughout the torso.

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Wells Mason's chairs, benches, and tables are simultaneously playful and--with their stark joining of organic and man-made materials (such as the Baltic birch, stainless steel, and fiberboard embedded in a telephone pole in the Shelf Life chair, bottom)--aesthetically and intellectually challenging.

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To sell the Baccarat Residences, a 50-story glass condominium tower under construction across from the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan, a model set up in the building's showroom includes striking materials like lacquered ziricote-wood walls and a crackled bronze sculptural wall embedded with tiny pieces of glass made by a British artist.

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