But video on demand has exploded and is beginning to edge out trips to the video store.

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But zinc demand has exploded with the building and construction boom here and overseas, not to mention the fact that a typical automobile uses nearly 40 pounds of zinc in it.

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Demand for the iPhone has since exploded, leaving Samsung and its domestic rival LG (which together have sold seven out of ten phones in South Korea), looking uncharacteristically leaden.

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Thanks to these subsidies and regulations, demand for maize and vegetable oils (on which biodiesel is based) has exploded and these crops have displaced others, such as wheat.

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With the rapid adoption of smartphones and tablets, the amount of data transmitted across mobile devices has exploded by 8, 000% in four years on some networks, and experts expect demand to continue to increase exponentially over the coming years.

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"Thanks to consumers' demand for portability and ease-of-use, the ultra-compact camcorder category has exploded in growth, " said Mr. SangRyong Kim, Senior Vice President of Camcorder Team, Samsung Electronics.

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