However, a product I work with (a specific alloy) had a patent granted for its use in sporting goods.
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Dan Rubin, a principal of Alloy Ventures, a Palo Alto, Calif.
The radiator support in the new Ford F-150 is made out of a magnesium alloy.
Now they are pouring silicon bronze, a durable alloy heated to about 2, 000 degrees Fahrenheit, into the molds.
The unit is packaged in a magnesium alloy top-and-bottom case that is 20 times stronger than ABS plastic.
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Both research groups use wire made of a standard alloy of nickel and iron that is easy to magnetise.
Intel's new insulator replaces silicon dioxide with a metallic alloy called hafnium.
It features a durable magnesium alloy case and with a 300MHz Pentium II brain and 64MB RAM, it is as powerful and compatible as most desktop computers.
The man is thought to have been buried fully clothed as shown by the preserved hobnails from his boots and a copper alloy earring found near his skull.
When the passengers for D301 reached the platform, they encountered a vehicle that looked less like a train than a wingless jet: a tube of aluminum alloy, a quarter of a mile from end to end, containing sixteen carriages, painted in high-gloss white with blue racing stripes.
Last month it placed ads in college newspapers and on a campus billboard network for Summit Entertainment, which is promoting a film based on an Alloy book about a high school senior who drives across the country to meet a girl he met online.
The time it takes to refine dore silver bars, which are a semi-pure alloy and usually created at the site of a mine, are somewhere in the middle of jewelry and electronics.
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The spheres are then dissolved to leave a 3D-metal scaffold onto which a nickel-tin alloy is added to form the anode, and a mineral called manganese oxyhydroxide to form the cathode.
Unlike other jewelers, he uses a dark metal alloy for the settings to highlight the gems' color.
Other advantages include a lighter magnesium alloy body, an NX power pin-enabled hot shoe for adding an external mic or flash, and a new micro-USB trigger cable.
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They are toughened with diamond-like carbon from the semiconductor industry and this is bonded on to the steel with niobium, a rare tin alloy normally used in superconducting magnets.
Easily handling the most compute intensive tasks, the LIFEBOOK S762 notebook features a magnesium-alloy cover, hard drive shock sensor, WWAN support, an HD WXGA LED backlit display, and optional NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GT 640M LE with NVIDIA Optimus(TM) technology for longer battery life.
Packing a 5.0-liter aluminum alloy V8 engine that generates a blazing 510 horsepower and 461 pound-feet of launch-happy torque, it runs with other hopped-up premium SUVs like the BMW X5 M and the Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG.
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One problem is that Alloy's businesses are too disparate, says Steven Martin, a portfolio manager at Slater Capital Management in New York City, which has a 5% stake in Alloy.
For films Alloy gets a rights fee, a producer's fee and a percentage of profits.
Alloy creates a book club and a Web site to go along with them.
Five years later Alloy sold a concept called Pretty Little Liars--something of a Desperate Housewives for teens--to the CW for a television series and to HarperCollins for a book.
On July 3rd officials in the city of Shifang in Sichuan province announced that a planned copper-alloy plant would no longer be built after local residents demonstrated on the streets against it.
The standard equipment furthermore includes electric windows and electrically adjustable door mirrors, a leather steering wheel, leather gear knob, the entry line radio, power steering, 9-spoke alloy wheels and a luggage compartment cover.
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Diamond aims to do a better job of linking Alloy's far-flung businesses through cross-promotions.
Its book business sprouted out of 17th Street Productions, a book-packaging company Alloy bought in 2000.
Another breakthrough from GM is a device that uses a material called shape memory alloy (SMA), which changes shape when it is heated.
The new device is expected to have a bigger screen, a smaller charging dock and a case made from an alloy called LiquidMetal.
With a hit like Gossip Girl Alloy makes money from the TV rights, from selling the pilot to the CW and from producers' fees on the pilot.
In terms of design, this is indeed made of mag-alloy, with a total weight of three pounds, and it was tested in accordance with the military's MIL-STD 810G standards.
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