Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handle the distribution of products developed by our Springdale Laboratories, notably two new types of lithographic plates and the Electronic Scanner. Last month P.D.I. completed negotiations for building a new electroplating plant at Racine, Wis., to meet the demand from U.S. and Canadian lithographers for these hard-metal, offset plates, the "Lithure" and the "Lithengrave...
According to Stair's theory, tektites came from the lost planet too. He thinks that on its surface was light, glassy material that had separated like cream as the heavier metal and rock sank toward the center of the planet. This separation may have happened on the earth too, but water erosion destroyed the glass...
...lost planet there was no water, so the glass on its surface survived until the final breakup. Then chunks of it sailed around the solar system along with chunks of metal and rock. When they hit the earth's atmosphere, the glass shattered into small fragments as soon as it began to get hot. The fragments fell to earth as tektites. When a fragment had the right shape to keep it from tumbling as it moved through the air, the molten glass that was wiped off the forward end frequently solidified as "wings" or an "apron" attached...
...award had the jury stopped: an $800 prize donated by Rome's Obelisco Gallery for the "most nonconformist" work. After surveying the field (including a blank, punctured canvas and an 18-in.-square sheet of rusted metal punctured by 3-in. nails on which were impaled two pingpong balls), the international jury gave up, decided that the task of picking only one was impossible...
...Houses with centrally controlled pushbutton windows, electronic heating, cooling and refrigeration systems that work without moving parts, electroluminescent lighting from sheets of glass and metal...