This mixture is then spread onto a glass or metal surface and through photosynthesis, it keeps on generating electricity.
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And Donna Brandelli, another expert, told the jury that fingerprints rarely adhered to the shiny metal surface of a gun.
It turns out that those selenium "doughnuts" can be packed tightly onto a metal surface without touching, thanks to their soft shells, which could allow more bits to be packed onto a hard drive, or be used in quantum computers and next-gen displays.
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More recently, he has been dreaming of cases in a shiny, metal-like surface or displaying an inner "skeleton" framework to convey a futuristic look.
They used intense nanosecond pulses of laser light to turn the metal's lustrous surface a deep black.
They give up, he says, and in the process form nearly defect-free structures that exhibit incredible bonds with the surface of the metal.
Inventor, Hideki Watanabe, created the prototype using dental plaster from his practice that he used to line the inside surface of a metal pot in a spiral design.
The pair built the devices in the garage while Lucile used the kitchen stove to bake the paint on the surface of sheet-metal casings.
To create the point-contact transistor, Shockley's team modified the cat's whisker by placing two fine metal wires close together on the surface of a germanium crystal, turning it from a diode into a triode.
European Union guidelines say that earrings are supposed to contain less than 0.05% nickel by weight and should not release more than 0.5 micrograms of the metal per square centimetre of their surface area per week.
However, the stronger dollar has been less of a bearish weight on gold recently, as the yellow metal has seen better safe-haven demand surface.
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But the recent stronger dollar has been less of a bearish weight on gold, as the yellow metal has seen better safe-haven demand surface as the new year gets under way.
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However, the stronger dollar has been less of a bearish factor for gold recently, as the yellow metal has seen better safe-haven demand surface as the new year is under way.
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The gold bulls are disappointed their precious yellow metal did not see good safe-haven demand surface Tuesday.
The Microsoft Surface tablet is constructed from magnesium and manufactured using liquid metal.
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This is going to be slightly confusing for everyone out there now that Microsoft has announced the Surface, the case of which is made of liquid metal.
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Vaporizing nickel onto the surface and removing that screen leaves behind a near-perfect grid of metal, hexagonal dots.
For instance, when a product's aluminum surface is shrunk or bent, the amount of on-order aluminum sheet metal changes instantly.
As it turns out, it's apparently just difficult to paint metal, and the manufacturing process required to make this laptop in white results in a smoother surface.
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