Word: aluminum
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Another good reason to go is the one disdained by straight-to-Mars boosters: learning how to live off the land--manufacturing some of what we need from soil that contains oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, calcium, magnesium and titanium, plus a dusting of helium, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon deposited by solar winds...
...Dioguardi burns the film on to aluminum plates using something called a “Ultra-Plus Flip-Top Platemaker.” He says it is easy to use. It does not appear to be that simple...
...Dioguardi begins brushing the burnt aluminum plates with developer. This is the corrosive chemical portion of the evening. “I’m wearing two bad gloves,” he says, holding up the gloves for inspection. After brushing on and washing off the developer comes the finisher wash...
...It’s time to bend the aluminum plates to get ready for the press. Byrne deftly operates something that looks kind of like a medieval torture device. Aluminum, it turns out, bends easily...
...plates are loaded on the press and Byrne explains the process by which the ink gets transferred from the plate to the paper. He explained it much much more clearly than is possible to replicate here, but essentially alkaline solution mixed with water is run over the aluminum plates imprinted with the negative image from the film. The image on the plate, covered in the finisher chemicals, repels the alkaline and the alkaline repels the ink. The ink only sticks where there is no image. Since it’s printed as a negative this all begins to make sense...