Many carry tridents and spears, but most carry kamandals - small brass or copper pitcher for carrying the holy Ganges water.
Basically, marriage is a market, like steel scrap or copper.
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They claim to have a magic box, a variation of a telecommunications switch that can eliminate the bottleneck known as the Last Mile, that final stretch of cable, fiber or copper into homes.
They claim that they will have a magic box of telecommunications hardware and software that can eliminate the bottleneck known as the Last Mile: the final stretch of cable, fiber or copper into homes.
The ink will work on silicon solar panels as well as those using alternative materials such as cadmium telluride (used by First Solar in the U.S.) or copper indium gallium selenide (used by Solar Frontier in Japan).
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Mining giants like Rio Tinto, Freeport-McMoran and Glecore figured the roaring Chinese demand for raw materials would bail them out of any mega- takeover that meant borrowing a bundle of debt to diversify into aluminum or gold or copper was the path to growth, higher profits and ecstatic shareholders.
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It used to be that we got all of our copper either from the very small deposits of pure metallic copper or from the larger deposits of copper sulfides.
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Transfer the mixture to an 11- or 12-quart copper preserving pan or a wide nonreactive kettle.
Even the best upcoming broadband wireless technologies from the telcos are nowhere near the 100Mbit or better I can get from from telco to get to the Internet, nor are they as reliable as copper or fiber, and they are orders of magnitude more expensive.
And what happens when Afghanistan needs copper or oil or iron for its own development?
Gold money will change for smaller money in order to make smaller transactions, one ounce for twenty of silver, or 6000 of copper.
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The War Memorials Trust estimates one monument is vandalised per week for its bronze, copper or other metal, despite them having "relatively little value".
It is also a force in digital loop carriers, which convert multiple voice calls into a single digital signal and can use either copper or fiber-optic cables.
Instead, a low-energy nuclear reactor (LENR) uses common, stable elements like nickel, carbon, and hydrogen to produce stable products like copper or nitrogen, along with heat and electricity.
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By beaming broadband signals from phone poles into homes, Spitfire solves a major problem facing regional Bells: One third or so of homes have copper wires so degraded by splicing or old age that they cannot handle DSL service.
It is also working to secure the necessary financing, considering alternatives such as a joint venture or sale of its copper projects, McEwen said.
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In cyclical sectors like steel, coal, copper, or even aerospace and oil I can model average earning power over a full cycle or even use a discount table on assets in the ground.
Speed of light is the scarcity that governs networks, whether on the surfaces of chips where signals move nine inches a nanosecond through miles of minuscule copper wires or across continents and oceans where latencies reach 60 milliseconds.
Exactly what that copper content is is debatable: various sites give brass or bronze as the alloy and with different copper contents.
Some now argue that it's a cause of financial instability as the international super-rich shift their wealth around the world, increasing volatility in the price of gold, equities, government debt or basic commodities such as copper and grain.
This especially harsh winter has forced more than 12 copper mines to slow or halt operations.
One thing they have in common is a connection to Chinese growth, whether through sales of copper and cattle feed or Italian boots and Japanese blouses.
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Or how about the use of Chromated Copper Arsenate in pressure treated wood which continually releases arsenic, a known carcinogen?
Nanosolar is one of several Silicon Valley startups that have attracted billions of dollars in venture capital to develop a thin-film technology called copper indium gallium selenide, or CIGS. Such solar cells use little expensive silicon, the main ingredient of conventional photovoltaic cells.
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This is not because of any gold or uranium content but rather because of the copper content.
Gold, oil, copper and other items are approaching or exceeding rates of price increase not seen for a quarter of a century.
And since consumers do not think about power consumption when choosing a phone or laptop, manufacturers tended to stick with copper wire.
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It costs less than ISDN or T1 lines, it flows over existing copper wire and, unlike cable, its bandwidth doesn't diminish as more neighbors hop onboard.
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