"metal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "The big problem probably will hit with the very scarce metals or semimetals that are used in semiconductors, superconductors, LED's and that sort of thing, or platinum," he said.
- The mayor of New York convinces a popular actor, Alvah Gustad, to negotiate an agreement with the muckfeet: technology in exchange for their scarce metals.
- Molybdenum, rhodium, neodymium and palladium are relatively scarce metals, while manganese and vanadium are, like phosphorus and sulfur, fairly abundant for minor minerals.
- Many items have been used as money, from naturally scarce precious metals and cowry shells through cigarettes to entirely artificial money, called fiat money, such as banknotes.
- Other potential obstacles include the fact that the process now requires palladium, a scarce metal.
- And so, more than any material aid in scarce metals or new genetic strains, we can most help the home planet by serving as a way for you to see yourselves.
- Platinum is also among the world's scarcest metals, according to the New York Mercantile Exchange, with most of the world's mines in two countries, South Africa and Russia.
- Were we successfully to sign agreement with his firm, we could no doubt replace many present metals, quite scarce, with plastics.
- Following the war she returned to ceramics, which were being used to replace scarce metals in buttons and jewelry for fashion designers.
- The American military needed tungsten, a scarce strategic metal used for hardening missiles.
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