Dorniers too, he says, were made of aluminium, which corrodes badly in sea water.
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Handling an iPhone 5 will definitely remove some portion of that layer of aluminium oxide.
One alternative is a cable that uses a combination of aluminium and carbon-glass fibre composite.
Its 400-odd bicycle makers are busily developing new types of aluminium alloy to make stronger, lighter models.
The highly alkaline substance is a by-product of aluminium production and has a caustic effect on the skin.
And Honda's new Insight saloon car is made largely of aluminium and composites.
Last autumn, the Japanese-owned Tenyu sailed out of the Malacca Strait bound for South Korea with 1, 500 tonnes of aluminium ingots.
Either high or low ph environments will strip the anodising (what is effectively a layer of aluminium oxide) from the underlying metal.
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The most promising sail material has a carbon-fibre backing coated with a thin layer (just a few tens of atoms thick) of aluminium.
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On April 8th 1982 Dr Shechtman fired a beam of electrons at a slice of aluminium-manganese alloy, in order to understand its crystal structure.
One of the 11 is Klaus Kleinfeld, a former chief executive, who is now the boss of Alcoa, the world's leading producer of aluminium.
The handful of aluminium-bodied cars in production have mostly been low-volume luxury models, such as the Honda NSX, the Audi A8 and the Jaguar XJ.
We get it in small amounts from the making of aluminium.
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Ingrid Sternby, a metals analyst at Barclays Capital, believes that the price of aluminium is likely to remain high for at least the next few years.
In the Middle Ages it was discovered to be a rich source of aluminium sulphate - a crucial raw material used as a fixing agent in dyeing cloth.
Vast mounds of rubbish fester on the city's streets where the truly destitute sift for scraps of aluminium or plastic to sell in a hand-to-mouth struggle to survive.
Post-mortem tests revealed very high levels of aluminium in her brain - levels described at the inquest by expert Professor Chris Exley from Keele University as "beyond belief".
One expert in the UAE has estimated that 70% of the high-rise buildings there have panel facade cladding made of a combustible thermoplastic core held between two sheets of aluminium.
Citigroup estimates that the spot price is below the production costs for 15% of copper producers, 25% of aluminium producers, 50% of zinc producers, 30% of nickel producers and 10% of iron-ore producers.
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There is also a feeling that some of the newer technologies, such as making fuselages lighter by building them out of carbon-composites instead of aluminium, may not yet be cost-effective for smaller aircraft.
They created a material that excluded light with a wavelength of one millimetre (the long end of the infra-red spectrum), using an array of aluminium-oxide posts that were spaced evenly across a grid.
You're just a piece of aluminium coated in some sort of magnetic substance in a server farm located in a country where the climate makes it economically viable to keep the machines at constant temperature.
The Dreamliner uses technology that allows much of it to be made of plastic composites instead of aluminium, which means it is lighter and, Boeing claims, will consume 20% less fuel than other, similar-sized planes.
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.
The device that Dr Kirczenow and Dr Rego had in mind is called a semiconductor heterostructure a semiconductor sandwich made of a thin layer of aluminium gallium arsenide held between two thicker layers of gallium arsenide.
In the case of aluminium, this is partly because of industrial unrest in North America, which is threatening to disrupt supplies from at least two plants, one in the United States and the other in Canada.
The i3 will be powered by huge lithium-ion batteries positioned under the floorboards (a distribution of weight that eases handling) with a drive system, chassis and energy storage unit all incorporated into a body module made of aluminium.
Worldwide, airlines have been slowly but steadily putting into operation two next-generation aircraft -- Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus A350 -- both of which have shells made heavily of composite materials, such as carbon-fibre reinforced plastic, instead of aluminium.
Mr Lassalle began his fast in March, sitting almost daily on a sofa in an ornate room of the National Assembly in Paris, to protest against what he considered to be a relocation plan by Toyal, a Japanese-owned manufacturer of aluminium pigment.
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Both, the housing and the potentiometer control as well as the rotary switch for selecting the source are made of anodised aluminium, while the front panel of the housing and the controls are milled from solid material.
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