But a metal detector can't detect the kind of explosives that were sewn into his clothes.
"Iron is a transition metal and it can have different oxidised states, " explained Prof Grotzinger.
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You realise are you standing on a metal grid and you can look through to the ground below.
"I'm functional at this point, " said Lee, demonstrating a metal coin wrapper that can no longer turn because its bearings have seized from corrosion.
Food-safety officials in the southern province of Guangdong on Wednesday released the results of tests that showed less than 5% of local rice supplies contained excessive levels of cadmium, a carcinogenic heavy metal that can wreak havoc on the kidneys and weaken bones if ingested in large quantities.
History shows that the red industrial metal can be a leader of significant price movements in the stock market.
Expensive maintenance may force the owners to sell the historic ship for scrap metal, unless a solution can be found.
By combining an artist and scientific quest, the two professors at Michigan State University found that a certain type of metal-loving bacteria can transform high amounts of the toxic chemical compound gold chloride from a liquid into solid 24-karat gold.
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The sandwich is roughly 1, 500 times stiffer than a traditional metal body, which means you can't hurt it unless you start strafing around with a chisel - something quite reassuring when the extremities are unfamiliar event horizons.
Sometimes I had to walk around my house, waiting for a connection to reestablish itself. (Metal doors and thick walls can block a Bluetooth signal).
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In order to prosecute, the police can also try to prove a merchant has knowingly handled stolen metal - but that can be difficult.
The rest of the arsenal is simple: a pizza stone or two to boost and hold that all-important heat in the oven and a peel preferably metal (tip: you can use the flat back of a baking sheet in a pinch) to extract the pie with a minimum of mess when it's ready.
It is a system of metal construction where parts can be attached to each other, which is often used in industry to build prototypes.
With the direct route, you will need to find a gold broker or a gold dealer to buy the physical metal, which you can store yourself or have stored for you for a fee.
Physical gold is still available, but physical silver in particular, which appeals to smaller investors because it is more accessibly priced and has industrial uses as well as precious metal value can take a month or more to reach the hands of buyers.
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Most countries do not use body scanners, he said, preferring to use a combination of metal detection and technology that can identify explosives.
The fertile and fractious U.S. scene in the genre known as black metal can be understood through a familiar moment in rock history.
Noble has developed technology that can turn metal into a kind of body armor that, unlike bulky sports outfits of yesteryear, feels like silk.
Massa was hit on the helmet by a metal spring, the size of a drink can and weighing almost a kilo, which fell off fellow Brazilian Rubens Barrichello's Brawn car.
It turns out that those selenium "doughnuts" can be packed tightly onto a metal surface without touching, thanks to their soft shells, which could allow more bits to be packed onto a hard drive, or be used in quantum computers and next-gen displays.
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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources followed with its own study, which found that when lead bullets explode inside an animal, imperceptible particles of the metal can infect meat up to a foot and a half away from the bullet wound -- farther than previously thought.
It would appear that being hit with a lead pipe is not the only way the metal can damage your brain.
The watch contains a 25, 000-pixel complementary metal oxide semiconductor sensor and 1 megabyte of memory, which can store up to 80 images at a time.
If you drive almost anywhere in Danville, Virginia around Christmastime, you can see a 28-foot-high metal bust of the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus atop the sprawling red-brick Dan River mill.
The concept of a front corner-mounted metal mesh loudspeaker has yet to prove its worth in the real world, but if we can get a dreamy list of specs and the rumored capacitive touchscreen to come along for the ride, we might be willing to let it slide.
Aside from its unpleasant odor, the toxic gas-a natural byproduct of organic and inorganic wastes-can corrode metal.
In fact, few can even name a producer of the soft yellow metal.
The track itself is a sequence of closely packed rectangular metal frames, each of which can act as an independent electrical circuit.
Rates are going higher, however, and that will eventually have an impact, but as we saw from late 1979, the metal can still rise in the early phases of a tightening campaign.
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