Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...works. (Just before the act went through, Krupp sold out to a Swedish group headed by Tycoon Axel Wenner-Gren.) Junkers had to give up a manufacturing affiliate in Sweden, but Germans remained on the directorates of other big Swedish firms, and the German investment in Sweden's metal-working industry alone was estimated...
...most sinister and most beneficent metal is quicksilver, whose properties mystified men for 4,000 years. A deadly poison in some forms, it was once mined chiefly by slaves, convicts, syphilitics. It is used in the making of felt hats, anti-barnacle marine paint, medications, many another product. Without its uniform sensitivity good thermometers would be costly and rare. Its hypersensitive crystals (mercury fulminate) have detonated most of the world's bombs...
...model of an early battery, models developed in 1790 to show the use of Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod, a portable electric machine of 1790 for medical treatment, early examples of Leyden jars embodying the first use of the condenser principle, and an early 17th century loadstone in a metal case...
...idea was to electrify a strip of metal around the building's base. When a dog stopped to relieve himself, an electric current would pass up the stream, shock the dog and dissuade him from repeating his act. There was no question of the novelty of that. Scrupulous patent attorneys try to dissuade the concocters of such whizz-bangs from wasting their money on patents...
...Nazis called in their last copper coins for war use (to be replaced by zinc tokens), Adolf Hitler grimly stalked through his 1,400-ft.-long Chancellery, which he proudly completed only a year ago, designating what he would sacrifice to the "metal war chest." Chief items: the Chancellery's famed bronze doors and great candelabra...