Unlike the succession of glass plates used in 1941's "The Wolf Man, " through which we viewed the moon-induced metamorphosis of Lon Chaney Jr.

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This segment includes the production of rigid container sheet, as well as sheets and plates used in the transportation, building and construction and distribution markets.

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Rapid-prototyping machines have, for example, shortened the casting process for facial and cranial plates used in reconstructive surgery, says Robin Richards at the department of medical physics at University College, London.

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The BBC saw several vehicles with Iranian registration plates being used to transport people on sandy tracks.

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Paper plates were used at a luncheon in honor of his son Rishad's wedding a few years ago.

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Personalised plates are regularly used in films and television series to hint that a character is a braggart or an egomaniac or just a bit desperate for attention.

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Radioactivity came to light a century after the discovery of uranium when Henri Becquerel used uranium salts and photographic plates in the same experiment and found that one fogged the other.

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But the dishwasher was almost full, and there was no way to judge which plates might have been used earlier that day and which had been there before.

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But the agreement of an open standard in 2008 by the Wireless Power Consortium (which has over 100 members, including Nokia, Samsung, Sony, HTC, Huawei, Motorola Mobility, and Belkin) offered the possibility of universal charging plates that could be used by any handset which followed the Qi standard.

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