It used a proprietary magnetic-pulse welding process, for example, to develop a lightweight, one-piece aluminum driveshaft that improves fuel efficiency for both light vehicle and commercial truck customers.

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Not in this case because the DUP and Sinn Fein suddenly love each other, but because the invisible magnetic fields that govern this process have thrown them together.

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The Surface's built-in kickstand threw another wrench into the design process, as did the magnetic hinge used to attach the keyboard covers.

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From resistors and LED modules to light sensors, each block represents a real component that can be attached to each other via magnetic connectors, hopefully creating a circuit in the process.

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As the train's magnets pass over a frame, they induce an electric current in it and this, in turn, generates a magnetic field which repels the magnet that started the whole process and thus levitates the train.

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Since then, most European nations as well as Japan and Canada have adopted this so-called EMV international credit card standard and abandoned magnetic stripe credit cards for chip-and-pin cards in the process.

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Most of us consider moral judgment a higher order thought process, but this research shows that it can be tweaked by a weak magnetic field in a matter of minutes.

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But in Dr Rostoker's reactor, the helium nuclei created by the process of light fission would be speedy enough to escape from the ends of the ellipsoid, where the magnetic field is weakest.

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