They boast large global market shares in specialised niches: ceramics and other fine materials for semiconductors, tiny motors for hard drives and other digital equipment, a range of sophisticated machines for making liquid-crystal display panels, and so forth.
Compared with making a rigid mirror, making a liquid mirror is a picnic.
It sells 100 of the 130 molecules used in making semiconductor chips and liquid-crystal displays.
Actual berries and peels and spices are floating in the still, their essential oils and flavors being infused into the liquid, like making really good sauce.
We will be making gas from coal and importing cheap liquid natural gas from South America.
For instance, random electrical fluctuations tend to overwhelm them unless they are kept chilled with liquid nitrogen although making the islands smaller, paradoxically, reduces this problem.
Those investments are liquid and they can be traded, making them a valuable part of building long-term energy infrastructure projects.
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Among his recommendations: improving protection of catchment areas, implementing a national water policy, replacing the creaky pipes that carry the precious liquid to people's homes, and making wasters pay more for water.
PCBs are used in many industries: as heat-exchange liquid in transformers, in paint additives and in making plastics.
That is because electronic paper does not need backlighting in the way that liquid-crystal displays do (see article) and making beads or capsules change colour does not take much energy.
In its liquid form, it occupies much less space than gas, making it easier and more cost effective to transport.
This means: enhancing transparency on gas prices and flows (collecting data and making it widely available), improving the interconnection between markets, creating liquid trading hubs and providing clear and stable regulation for infrastructure investment, among other measures.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ultimately concluded that about 59, 200 barrels of liquid oil a day flowed from the well before it was capped, making it the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Liquid-fuel reactors, such as MSRs, also offer inherent safety advantages: because the fuel is liquid, it expands when heated, thus slowing the rate of nuclear reactions and making the reactor self-governing.
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