He read about something called direct-reduced iron, a technique for smelting without melting--removing the oxygen from iron ore while it's still solid, that is.
Many of them were just making a bit of business out of a family visit: Brest, like trans-Carpathia, was once an indeterminate melting-pot.
Dr Marinoni estimates that the combined effect of this crud could reduce the glaciers' ability to reflect light by 2-5% and increase the amount of melting by 12-34%.
Basque country is the reverse melting pot--let's all be together, work together, but let's not melt.
Muslim Spain was the equitable melting-pot of which America can only dream.
Mr. BURFOOT: Well, I certainly hope that we all embrace them because, you know, we are the melting-pot nation, and nobody gets instant citizenship.
He has argued that many of the large asteroids out there could have reached a stage of partial melting - even ones that at the surface appear to be unchanged.
Melting-pot institutions like the U.S. military prefer not to dwell too much on the particulars of a soldier's culture: Much of their purpose is to substitute personal belief with common standards of behavior.
That would affront the French republican notion that a melting-pot should produce a single stew, as, by and large, did earlier waves of immigration in the past half-century from Eastern Europe, Portugal and Italy.
And even back on the south coast, hidden behind the heat and horn-honking of Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital, you will also find a trove of architectural treasures, many legacies of the country's melting-pot religious heritage.
The Supreme Court is due to rule soon on whether it is constitutional to establish quotas at Brazil's universities for different ethnic groups, in a decision that pits the melting-pot view of Brazilian history against the quilombola view.
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So it is especially enlightening to hear how he chose Ma Cocotte's furnishings, many of which are from the melting-pot period of the 1940s up to 1955, when Scandinavian and especially American influences began to filter into France.
China has been making strenuous actions to buy mines of RE ore around the world, to maintain its dominance of the global markets, and I wonder whether this will extend to Greenland, where the melting ice-sheet is likely to ease access to the rich veins of REs and other elements that the world needs to maintain its technologies and energy supplies.
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These ripples are part of Singapore's transformation from a micro-managed melting pot into a cosmopolitan city-state.
The latter is caused by HTC's penchant for applying noise-reducing blur -- essentially melting neighboring areas of like color into one so as to reduce graininess.
They concluded there was a one-in-20 chance that the melting ice would drive up sea levels by more than 84cm, essentially saying there is a 95% chance it would not go above this figure.
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Through huge rocks and small canyons we roar, through picturesque desert and slowly melting, sticky-to-the-touch, two-lane blacktop.
Not only are poles and peaks melting, diseases -- including malaria, dengue fever and Lyme disease -- are moving northwards.
During the formation of penitentes, the furrows deepen such that they are sufficiently sheltered from the wind for melting to occur - which helps further deepen the depressions.
In a less elegant but no less impressive effort, NEXT Architects and designer Aura Luz Melis built a lamp that's filled with vegetable fat, which constantly changes its brightness through the process of melting and re-solidifying the fat.
In its current state, scratching requires an absurd dexterity and a love for mind-melting sonic distortions.
In 1975, at age 25, he left for Indonesia, where he started a scrap-melting steel plant with a local partner.
Prestone uses that brand name on all manner of car care products such as car wax, battery starters, driveway ice-melting salt.
But the total anonymity of my solitude began to course through me, as agreeable a sensation as slow-melting sunshine on the back of the neck.
And yet, at a time of fast-melting glaciers and strange rains, of spreading deserts and rising seas, it is a frail and distant promise.
Such a rise would probably lead to fast-melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, drought, disease and collapsing agriculture in poor countries, and mass migration.
Despite refusing to sing the song 'Man in the Iron Mask' for me personally (the song, from his first album, is a heart-melting ballad) Billy was on fine form throughout.
Like many farmers in his semi-desert part of the state, King had a decades-long practice of injecting melting snows into his irrigation wells.
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It concluded that speedups in melting rates are strictly short-term, transient phenomena, occurring primarily during summer months.
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Lahar floods are among the main hazards originated by ice and snow melting during eruptions of glacier-clad volcanoes.
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