Word: alloyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Koma Kyuhaku's 18th century inro are complemented by a fierce little demon mask with ivory horns. In a sense, the extreme limit of aestheticization was reached by the makers of tsubas. Considered merely as an object, the 19th century sword guard of the blue-black copper alloy known as shakudo, inlaid with gold maple leaves (the gold patchy, as in autumn), is sumptuous enough. But the idea of dying with so delicate a work of art attached to one's stomach by two feet of razor-sharp steel could only have arisen in Edo Japan. ·Robert...
...Carpenter Technology Corp. and the Wolverine Tube division of Universal Oil Products Co. to turn out high quality zirconium and stainless steel tubing under a Soviet process. At the moment. Patent Management is offering rights to a Russian electroslag refining process that is used to produce high-quality alloy steels. Noting that the Russians are usually eager to acquire American expertise for their industries, Patent Management's General Manager Clifton Hilderley admits that peddling Soviet patents in the U.S. is "something of a switcheroo." Though the Soviets want to sell in the West in order to acquire currency, they...
Dennis Intravia, one of the inventors, said yesterday that the steel alloy used for the locks has to be softened when it comes from the mill. The material was developed originally for government use and when hardened is impossible to cut, Intravia said...
...Audi NSU $12 million in the early '60s for rights to the engine, spent seven years and $20 million improving its performance. The most crucial problem, devising a tight but long-lasting seal at the three apexes of the rotor, was solved by substituting a carbon alloy for the cast-iron tip used in German models. The original Wankel engines belched clouds of smoke, so Toyo Kogyo built a 40-lb. "thermal-reactor" afterburner to oxidize the exhaust and attached a dozen more antipollution devices to the engine. As a result, says Jiro Morikawa. president of Mazda Motors...
Carbide operates a factory in Alloy, W. Va., a company town, which emits five times as much dirt, dust, and particulate matter every day as the city of San Francisco. The death rate from lung cancer in this factory's county is three times the national average...