So we could end up with just a plain aluminium (or aluminium heavy alloy).
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With space-frames, car makers can clip extruded tubes or sections made of steel or aluminium on to a basic floorpan.
Frank Gehry, a godfather of contemporary American design if there is one, is shown crumpling paper or aluminium foil into a form, and then scanning the shape by computer in order to reduce it to two dimensions or make it into a model, so that a design can be refined or manufactured.
There is ceramic in combination with steel, steel in combination with aluminium or bronze, and paper.
And truth be told, it seems people would rather have British made pizzas rather than British made steel or British made aluminium.
Vast mounds of rubbish fester on the city's streets where the truly destitute sift for scraps of aluminium or plastic to sell in a hand-to-mouth struggle to survive.
Multi-junction solar cells say, fuel cells or, possibly, new aluminium alloys for windmill blades so they can work in higher speed winds.
The aluminium baby is now a year or two old and the others have grown up and multiplied, as you can see.
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This provides that underlying aluminium with much more protection against oxidisation or rust.
The speakers are available in matt aluminium, with fabric covers in either white or black.
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Influential tycoons such as Boris Berezovsky, currently gobbling up the country's aluminium industry, may yet find themselves in court or in exile.
And when its aluminium coating is replaced with silver in a year or two's time (a huge vacuum-chamber housed at the telescope's base will be used to deposit metallic vapour on to the mirror's reflecting surface), it will be able to see into the infra-red with equal clarity, opening up a much neglected area of astronomy.
It found a string of abandoned or half-built facilities, including a paper factory, an aluminium mill and a fleet of unused buses - all of which apparently received money from Fonden.
But in Toulouse last week Tom Williams, Airbus's head of manufacturing, dropped a hint that the firm's other factory in Britain (at Filton, near Bristol) could lose to French or German plants when Airbus starts making wing panels from composite materials rather than aluminium.
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Either high or low ph environments will strip the anodising (what is effectively a layer of aluminium oxide) from the underlying metal.
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Alcan runs an aluminium smelter in Northumberland, but has recently announced that it will look to sell or shut the plant.
Smartly styled in tough magnesium and aluminium, go-anywhere VAIO T Series is tailor-made to handle daily trips to the office or lecture theatre.
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