Lowering the drive's temperature causes its metal and plastic internals to contract ever so slightly.

降温使得硬盘内部的金属和塑料部件接合的更加紧密。

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And the answer, not that there aren't puzzles about it, but the answer is roughly, "it's the very same car if it's the very same hunk of metal and plastic and wires."

而答案，虽然还存在疑问，但答案大致上是，如果是同一堆铁，塑料，电线，就是同一辆车。

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Most metal and plastic parts are designed to be manufactured, which means they can be clunky and contain material surplus to the part's function but necessary for making it.

大多数金属和塑料是为了生产而设计的，这就意味着它们会很重，并且含有与生产有关，但与其功能无关的剩余物。

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And,showerheads made of plastic seemed to have higher bacteria levels than metal ones.

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And the answer, not that there aren't puzzles about it, but the answer is roughly, "It's the very same car if it's the very same hunk of metal and plastic and wires."

而答案，虽然还存在疑问，但答案大致上是，如果是同一堆铁，塑料，电线,就是同一辆车“

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This device held here is really made of mainly plastic and a little bit of metal.

这个装置大部分是用塑料做的,还有一点金属

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It was a teaspoon of water in a test tube, not a mass of silicon, metal and plastic.

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The MHRA said all-metal hips had a failure rate of about 12% after seven years, three times that of metal and plastic or ceramic hips.

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Some 49, 000 patients in the UK have these implants and they've been shown to have a much higher failure rate than metal and plastic or ceramic implants.

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