For example, the Department of Veteran Affairs stillprocesses disability claims by hand, passing manila folders six to 12 inches thick from metal desktop to metal desktop.
To dig up the raw material, process it, convert from oxide to fluoride to metal to iodide, to mix it with mercury, make their own light bulbs, all of this within each of the different 192 sets of national boundaries.
He showed how paints containing powdered metal can be splashed with acid to create metal oxides that give the effect of natural rusting, and how to make fake tree bark from a mold ingeniously colored using carpet scrapings.
The key to the process is the development of organic extractants that are specific to the metal to be extracted.
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The Act requires all scrap metal dealers to be registered with their local authority and obliges them to maintain records of all transactions relating to scrap metal received and processed.
Even when gold peaks, portfolio managers likely will want to hold some metal to maintain diversification, Tremblay said.
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"Although we can't be certain, there is a strong possibility that the thieves are targeting the golf clubs in order to sell the metal to scrap dealers, " he said.
The ex-Soviet producer of beryllium, a plant called Ulba, was trying to export that metal to the US. The sole US producer (in any volume at least) was Brush Wellman.
For example, buyers of iPads are willing to pay an exorbitant price for the package of plastic and metal that make up an iPad because that package of plastic and metal can do quite amazing things compares to other packaging of plastic and metal.
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Earlier this week Wilson posted a video online showing a single shot being fired from "The Liberator, " a plastic handgun that, with the exception of a metal firing pin and a piece of metal included to comply with the Undetectable Firearms Act, was assembled entirely from parts made with a 3-D printer.
He spent his schooldays learning how to bash metal before deciding to get a law degree.
Doctors in Birmingham have chosen to use a metal plate to repair her skull instead of that bone, which they say may have shrunk.
The boy suffered a broken right arm as he tried to protect his head and later needed surgery to insert a metal plate to repair the injury.
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After a chopper drops off guests in an idyllic wildflower-covered valley, mountaineers strap on helmets and harnesses, clip their via ferrata lanyards to the metal cable bolted to the base of Mount Nimbus, and begin to climb.
Although the differences between hot-metal technology and photography seem clear to outsiders, the dominant manufacturers in hot-metal typesetting struggled for years to develop new photo typesetters.
The headphones include premium 9mm drivers optimized to work with the metal housing to deliver extended bass response.
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On Saturday, yellow police tape blocked access to a metal door that leads to the hidden alley behind 51 Park Place.
At the EADS labs in Filton, U.K., researchers demonstrated that they can print out several different metal parts for airplanes with a technology that uses a laser to heat metal powders until they form solid metal shapes.
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Metal Gear Rising is an attempt to reboot the storied Metal Gear franchise into something wholly different.
Ultimately, the impact of this work will be to influence policy in order to treat heavy metal contamination and to optimise management policy for arsenic and nuclear legacy materials.
As long as gold miners are trading at a steep discount to the metal, investors should continue to take advantage.
Chinese and Indian buyers have snapped up gold at the discounted prices, but market watchers added that this needs to continue if the yellow metal is to at least sustain some kind of floor.
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Dr McConnell believes the picture of the last few years captured by his Greenland core suggests this renewed interest in coal burning is leading to an upturn in heavy metal input to the part of the Arctic he has studied.
Whoever bought the final stake had to have delivered 700, 000 tons of iron ore or 400 tons of scrap metal to Zaporizhstal within the last year.
Hedge funds boosted bullish bets on silver to the highest in almost four months as tensions in the Middle East sent the metal to a 30-year high.
"But anyone taking metal into a scrap metal yard now has to produce some form of photograph identification, " Det Supt Northcott said.
If the fiscal-cliff debate lingers, some analysts expect gold to act as a risk asset and track markets like equities, while others look for the precious metal to regain its safe-haven appeal.
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British Transport Police were also involved in the operation and visited 11 scrap metal dealers north and south of the border as part of their ongoing commitment to tackling metal theft.
In fact, initially, they designed their new lines of photo typesetters on the old, hot-metal architecture and tried to incorporate elements of the hot-metal process into the phototypesetting.
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