Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agent called a "catalyst," which is a substance that by its mere presence causes the union of two other elements. Efficient catalysts, or as Dr. E. E. Slosson calls them, the "good mixers" of chemical society, are expensive. Haber used uranium, platinum or some other rare and finely divided metal. When the nitrogen and hydrogen, after being elaborately purified, mixed in proper proportions, compressed, and heated to 1,300 degrees F., are passed over the uranium, the resulting gas contains from 4% to 8% of ammonia, which can be condensed to a liquid, used in refrigeration, etc., or further transformed...
...well as to the assumption by the company of bond interest and sinking fund requirements of $14,000,000 as a result of its acquisition of American Brass. Except for its newly acquired Chile Copper Co. properties, Anaconda is a high-cost producer, and with the red metal selling about 15% below even the 1913 price, cannot expect to operate its old deep-shaft mines at much, if any, profit. With such companies as Kennecott, Chile, Utah or Miami, the lower costs of production make present copper prices more profitable...
...advance in copper prices after Anaconda's suspension of the dividend has been in part due to the belief that this company and others in the same position intended to curtail production, in order to allow the red metal to advance to price levels where production would prove more profitable...
...Metal Skin...
Them whose faith and truth on war's red touchstone rang true metal...