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...ter and air (oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon), back to the type of combustion that happens in the human body when we breathe. The final lecture On Platinum describes a then new method to produce large quantities of Platinum. It was delivered before the Royal Institution on February 22, 1861. (Summary by Availle.)...

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...re will never come a time when I will understand." Kane fingered the small platinum pendant at his neck—a horse and rider—feeling his first real pangs... ...adorned in a maroon sash and a scimitar sticking from his belt. He wears a platinum pendant around his neck, a miniature portrayal of the sculpture. I...

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...lex the prey with a single, insoluble, challenge. I never lost. But when I won from Eli his platinum tie clip and pair of cufflinks, the betting sto...

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...of brown, appearing to glow even without the rays of the sun. Her hair was that of platinum, catching the sun’s rays as it swayed from side to side a... ...urrounded it. Below the castle was a village of humanoids, some with dark skin and platinum hair, like his host, and others with fair skin, hair bla... ...aze. She was dressed in a white cloth like that of silk and above her long mane of platinum hair sat a crown with different colored jewels carved in...

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...i. A limited number of suites and residences are still available from our Platinum Collection, representing not only a way to own rare fee-simple rea...

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... Natural resources: nickel, uranium, rare earth oxide, peat, cobalt, copper, platinum (not yet exploited) Agriculture: major cash crops coffee, cotton... ...120 per capita (1983/84 est.) Natural resources: potash, salt, gold, copper, platinum Agriculture: main crop coffee; also cereals, pulses, oilseeds, m... ...ny, coal, iron, manganese, nickel, phos- phates, tin, uranium, gem diamonds, platinum, copper, vanadium Agriculture: corn, wheat, sugarcane, tobacco, ...

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... holding in his hand. He slipped a glittering square-cut solitaire, set in platinum gold, onto her finger. It was a perfect fit. “It’s amazing, beauti...

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...ould (preferred) customers disappear in (the) off-line world? Should Gold Cards or Platinum Cards disappear? ... The interesting thing is that d...

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...ntry strip mining for zinc, aluminum and every other pre­ cious metal, including platinum, gold and silver." "Through mergers and hostile take-overs ...

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...il- lustrative material is satisfactory. The expensive process of gelatine platinum prints brings out a warmth of tone and a clearness of detail, qual...

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...s toy music boxes, and clocks, and jewelry boxes made out of gold, silver, and platinum. That the obscenely rich elite wasted fortunes upon to have ...

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...descent gas; for the metals that most resist the action of heat, gold, and platinum, and the hardest rocks, can never be either solid or liquid under ... ...n, ran in winding course threads of copper and man- ganese, with traces of platinum and gold. I thought, what riches are here buried at an unapproacha...

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...th delicate bouquets in their hands, German fantasticalities surrounding a platinum clock, in- laid with arabesques. Above it sparkled the brilliant f...

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... be worked by springs, and released and checked by electricity conveyed by platinum wires fused through the glass. All that is merely a question of de...

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...enches, the operating tables, the instruments of brass, and fine glass and platinum and gold. Men and women came from all parts of the world for study...

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...f the broken one as if for filling, fitting into them a flattened piece of platinum wire to serve as a dowel. But this was only the beginning; altoget...

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...als at either end and along its edge. “If this isn’t money,” said I, “it’s platinum or lead.” I stuck it with elaborate care into my pocket, and with ...

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...ately, I had a huge assortment of various colors ranging from jet black to platinum blonde right in my own bath- room. After choosing a shade, getting...

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...g of it?” “Not that I know of. Look here, Keith, I told you I was sure the platinum—” “Your brain is becoming platinum. I must go,” and the chemist re... ...cruples were thus disposed of, and when Edward’s brain cleared itself from platinum, he showed himself satis- fied with the decision, though he insist...

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..., and since him, a hundred others. **The Electrotype. ***Wollaston made of platinum for the field of views in a telescope a wire one eighteen-thousand...