Word: metallization
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...search of good luck to reveling students in search of a place to relieve themselves. Because of the latter, one is inclined to pity the former. But does anyone truly know exactly what those tourists’ poor, unsuspecting hands are touching? Is it Harvardian urine or just plain metal? Armed with state-of-the-art swabbing technology and chemistry tutor Stephen J. Haggarty, FM put on its mad-scientist hat and sought the answer to this pressing question...
...officer was dispatched to the Carpenter Center where a party was reportedly banging on metal. The officer asked the person to close the door...
...When the truck stopped abruptly, the load shifted and one of the containers inside got caught by the metal trim on the base of the truck, so there was a small leak,” said Murphy, who led the team that responded to the chemical leak...
Operating like a NASCAR pit crew, Southwest's mechanics pride themselves on changing airplane tires faster than their counterparts at other airlines. And mechanics at Southwest don't use the standard $500 tool to remove the magnetic device that detects metal chips in engine oil, as other mechanics do; they simply and quickly use their hand to pop it out. "Those tools are a waste," says a mechanic...
...might consider wearing it. Or so suggest the curators of "The Adventures of Aluminium, Jewellery to Jets," at London's Design Museum through Jan. 19, which polishes up the familiar stuff. Today a symbol of our throwaway culture, aluminum was not so long ago a precious metal. When a French scientist first extracted tiny pieces of it in 1845, the earth's most abundant metal was as valuable as gold and used in jewelry and precious objects. But only 10 years later, a new chemical extraction process made aluminum more easily obtainable, and from then on its lightness and durability...