The next heaviest element in the periodic table, the inert gas helium, is used for detecting cracks in pressure vessels and the like.
Third, once this tool has been used once, there is likely to be external pressure for it to be used again when other European banks get into trouble, an event that is as sure to happen as night following day.
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This has driven down demand and pricing for pressure pumping services like fracking that are used to extract gas from shale rock formations, severely impacting margins of most large oil field firms including Baker Hughes.
"I don't see it as a compromise, but as a transitional step" to a "full blown" policy of federally financing embryonic stem cell research, Doerflinger said, adding that if researchers found the experiments on the small number of cell lines promising, they would want to create even more cell lines, and that would create pressure to allow tax dollars to be used for more experiments.
The organisation used for the audit would be independent of both the Liberal Democrats and pressure groups and the results would be made public, he promised.
The result will be a welcome glimmer of hope for under-pressure Reds manager Roy Hodgson, who used the breathing space of his team being top of their group ahead of the game to field a team mostly of youngsters and fringe players.
The move is intended to pressure Tehran to stop enriching uranium, which can be used for civilian nuclear purposes but also to build warheads.
The council said this could ease the pressure on the authority's revenue budget which is used for frontline services for children and elderly and vulnerable people.
Japanese robotic specialists say American robots were used partly because of pressure from the foreign ministry, out of gratitude for United States troop support after the tsunami.
Russia's foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, has alleged that the weapons inspectors are being put under pressure to provide evidence that could be used as a pretext for war, or to provoke the Iraqis so much that they get themselves thrown out.
On December 16, Vitali Churkin -- a veteran and thoroughly cynical public relations flack for Soviet communists -- used an international conference in Geneva to denounce the international pressure being brought to bear on Serbia and expressed Moscow's solidarity with Belgrade.
The Nielsen rating system, used to charge for ads and to determine which shows live and die, will be under pressure.
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has resigned, bowing to enormous pressure for him to leave public office in the wake of allegations that he has repeatedly used the services of a high-priced prostitution ring.
They pile the lobbying pressure on with warnings that incentives for investment need to keep coming, and under time pressure, if ageing equipment is to be used to squeeze more out of emptying reservoirs.
The DuoSense software identifies the position of the Pencil and the pressure level, removing the need for an excitation coil within the DuoSense digitizer and can be used either as an integral part of the solution or as an optional after-market accessory, enabling OEMs to offer system upgrades, making the Digital Pencil ideal for the consumer market.
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