Word: porcelain
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...could wish that plumbers would install them nowadays. Zinc tubs are deeper than the conventional porcelain ones, thus being more modest and more efficient. The water level reaches the shoulders rather than just the knees of the seated bather. The metal sides conserve warmth - of great strategic importance in the older houses of Cantabrigia...
...week of excitement, a week of scandal and human tragedy, yet a week with a certain meaning: despite man's highest aspirations and achievements, the human clay is still far from porcelain...
...form of a peculiarly dense graphite. At first this stuff was only a laboratory curiosity, and for a long time no one made it in quantity or thoroughly tested its properties. But after considerable experimentation, Raytheon's furnaces yielded a hard, impermeable, layered material that looks like black porcelain. Called Pyrographite, it proved to be five times as strong as ordinary graphite, keeps its strength at temperatures up to 6,700° F., also has the extraordinary property of conducting heat 100 times better along its main surfaces than perpendicular to them...
...Stockholm a much more impressive haul from China sat in a customs shed. It was a treasure hoard picked up in Peking by Nils Nessim, 43, a Swedish carpet dealer and importer. On a previous trip to Red China last year he had bought only modern carpets, ivory and porcelain. This time, taken down winding Peking streets to out-of-the-way antique shops, Nessim said he had stumbled onto a marvelous bronze figure of a six-armed, three-faced god crowned with a headdress of flames, excitedly asked if he might buy it. Told that he might, Nessim realized...
...spent several hundred thousand dollars for 2,127 items, including 250 pieces from the Ming dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644), 30 rare objects from the Sung period (A.D. 960-1279), more than 1,800 fine 18th and 19th century hand-woven silk carpets, many ivory, jade, bronze and wood figures, porcelain bowls. Some, but not all, were museum pieces...