New collectors often are surprised by the volume of material in circulation.

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The thinner these layers are, the more important these interfaces become because they make up more of the total volume of the material.

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Lenovo has committed to packaging reduction, recently reducing packaging material by 20 percent of yearly volume, saving an additional 10 paper coffee cups per box shipped.

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These conversations were the source material for Hayek on Hayek, a volume that appears in his collected works.

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Thanks to the technology revolution, we know more about silicon, particularly when it comes to manufacturing products in high volume, than any other material in the world.

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The order invoked the authority, inter alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) and declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation.

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The result, they claim in a paper that will appear this month in the Journal of Physical Chemistry, is a nanofibre material with an extremely high ratio of surface-area to volume.

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They were forced to conclude that a half-dozen of them had dropped in volume and were leaking anywhere from a few gallons to a few hundred gallons of radioactive material a year.

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