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Aluminum in sentence

188 examples of Aluminum in a sentence

The idea behind this form of "geoengineering" as it's called, is that, as the planet heats up, we may be able to shoot sulfates and aluminum particles into the stratosphere to reflect some of the sun's rays back to space, thereby cooling the planet.
We started with a proof of concept built in three days, made out of cardboard and aluminum foil.
We built another one with aluminum composite panels and piezoelectric plates, which are plates that generate a small pulse of electricity under pressure.
We used a bit of laser cutting on the plywood and some of the aluminum pieces.
That includes, of course, the old steel and aluminum but then also the plastics from the fender and the interiors, glass from the windows and the windshield and also the tires.
But the King of Siam, he was fed with aluminum utensils.
You see, aluminum was the most valuable metal on the planet, worth more than gold and platinum.
It's the reason that the tip of the Washington Monument is made of aluminum.
You see, even though aluminum is 8.3 percent of the Earth by mass, it doesn't come as a pure metal.
But then the technology of electrolysis came along and literally made aluminum so cheap that we use it with throw-away mentality.
I'm talking about the production of aluminum.
And just a few short years following their discovery, aluminum changed from a precious metal costing as much as silver to a common structural material.
You're looking at the cell house of a modern aluminum smelter.
The Hall-Heroult cell operates at high temperature, a temperature high enough that the aluminum metal product is liquid.
Four hundred aluminum cans.
That is why they started providing aluminum pipes, aluminum barracks.
Behind the lean-to was a dump, maybe 40 feet square with rotting apple cores and balled-up aluminum foil, and a dead sneaker.
These are the images that the media loves to show, of young men and boys burning wires and cables to recover copper and aluminum, using Styrofoam and old tires as fuel, seriously hurting themselves and the environment.
Scrap dealers recover copper, aluminum, steel, glass, plastic and printed circuit boards.
Devices are dissected to recover materials, parts and components with incredible attention to detail, down to the aluminum tips of electric plugs.
Steel is stockpiled separately, where the carcasses of cars and microwaves and washing machines become iron rods for new construction; where roofing sheets become cookstoves; where shafts from cars become chisels that are used to scrap more objects; where aluminum recovered from the radiators of fridges and air conditioners are melted down and use sand casting to make ornaments for the building industry, for pots which are sold just down the street in the Agbogbloshie market with a full array of locally made ovens, stoves and smokers, which are used every day to make the majority of palm nut soups, of tea and sugar breads, of grilled tilapia in the city.
He needed aluminum crutches to walk.
It's one step away from aluminum, so we'll call it eka-aluminum, "eka" being Sanskrit for one.
Gallium is one step away from aluminum on the periodic table.
Another group of ingredients in smartphones comes with similar environmental risks: these are metals such as copper, silver, palladium, aluminum, platinum, tungsten, tin, lead, and gold.
Over about a month, he graduated me from cardboard to roofing aluminum called flashing and still, one of my all-time favorite attachment materials, POP rivets.
We carefully, over that month, constructed an articulated suit of aluminum armor with compound curves.
There were things I didn't anticipate about wearing a complete suit of aluminum armor to school.
It's made from aluminum ... as opposed to aluminium, and it's grown.
Well, engineers already have a very good understanding of how aluminum, steel and plastics fracture under stress.
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