Its product, which consists of sheets of glass with a metal-oxide coating, was first used in skylights in 2003.

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The credit is 10% of the cost of the building materials (labor excluded) for insulation, exterior windows and doors that meet Energy Star requirements, and roofs (metal roofs with pigmented coating, or asphalt roofs with cooling granules).

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The fixtures throughout the Lodge are entirely done by Rocky Mountain Hardware--understated sand-cast bronze with a natural coating that allows the metal to blend into its environment--and in the mercifully small and hidden salon (a necessary evil in all spas) for sanitary reasons, the pedicure areas use copper basins and no jets.

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Mr Cassagnes saw the potential for the toy when he noticed, while working with metal powders, that marks in a coating of aluminium powder could be seen from the other side of a translucent plate.

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Though its Blu-Ray machines have been its biggest money maker, the German technology company has thus diversified into other areas, where it can replicate its expertise for metalization, i.e. the process of coating plastic with a thin layer of metal.

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The polymers were covered with a thin aluminum coating, but once fed electricity, they began to glow so brightly that light shone through the metal.

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