noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a plastic/glass/metal etc container
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A lot of food is sold in plastic containers.
base metal
heavy metal
metal detector
metal fatigue
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metal fatigue
metal fatigue
metal/steel/iron plates
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The shoes had metal plates attached to the heels.
plastic/rubber/metal etc sheeting
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The roof was covered in plastic sheeting.
precious metal
Scrap metal (= metal from old cars, machines etc )
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Scrap metal fetched high prices after the war.
sheet metal
wood/metal/print etc shop
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One auto shop class is run just for girls.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
base
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Gold mineralisation is associated with earlier fluids; antimony and base metal sulphides with later fluids.
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By adding base metals , the leaders debased the currency, hurting its value, and fueling inflation.
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RioFinex examined the Ordovician volcanic rocks of County Tyrone for base metals but found only minor intersections of low-grade copper mineralisation.
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Sectors expected to do well include base metals , forest products, energy and technology, he added.
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Gilded Finish Gilding is a process of overlaying a base metal with a very thin layer of gold.
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Mineralisation within the nodules consists of uranium, vanadium and iron oxides with base metal sulphides.
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The transmutation of base metal to gold was the paradigm of this sacred task.
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The area has potential for the discovery of base metal sulphides.
heavy
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Just the thing for all the serious aircraft enthusiasts, spotters, heavy metal fans and number-crunchers to get hold of.
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Lifting the heavy hunks of metal over the chain-link fence seemed improbable and buyers of black-market bronzes are scarce.
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Into most music except heavy metal , house, jazz and soul!
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In Massachusetts a metal refinishing plant had been discharging heavy metal solutions into the local waterways for years.
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Other plants sown with the reeds absorb heavy metals and harmful bacteria.
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A heavy metal vision of post-Thatcherism, maybe.
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The third was a heavy metal musical set on the Isle of Skye.
hot
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A yearning pierced through her, burning, like hot metal .
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Heat Hot as metal , heavy as stone, sauna shapes ripple down the thermals in zig-zags filled with boiling air.
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Over a thousand tons of red hot metal shrapnel from the exploded ship rained dawn with the rocks from a black sky.
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So the paper's first seven issues were produced on old, hot metal .
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There was a smell in the air, hot metal , chemical steam.
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Note over-large handle A plastic shroud protects the user from accidentally touching the hot metal nozzle.
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Hector was heavily muscled with long arms and big, high-knuckled hands that caught sharp and hot metal surfaces and absorbed grease.
other
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Articles made largely or wholly of gold, silver or other precious metals .
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Kerlin is looking at other metals extraction projects that could use similar techniques.
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In contrast to other commodities, metal futures contracts remain open at their original prices until their respective prompt dates.
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In order to eliminate price exposure on other precious metal stocks we hedge the price wherever possible by forward sales.
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Traditionally, gold and silver were the most highly prized metals although occasionally other metals or alloys were equally in demand.
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Modem glass also tends to contain a greater range of other metals such as arsenic and zinc.
precious
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The sheer volume of insignia required for public services means that insignia can be given only the appearance of precious metals .
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On a platform about thirty women were ablaze in primary colors and precious metals .
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They include objects of precious metal . like the jewelry and famous gold mask, and food and clothing.
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Some analysts argue that it should, since demand for the precious metal exceeds supplies.
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No less universal is their reliance on precious metals to fabricate them.
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Other strong groups included precious metals and oil, both groups building on recent gains.
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Fleischmann by contrast had studied hydrogen and precious metals for several years.
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The device comprises a steel casing within which a ceramic or metal support is coated with a catalyst of precious metals.
scrap
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This is the first time that plutonium, the most toxic substance in the world, has been discovered in scrap metal .
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Myat found ships loaded with scrap metal in the port of Chongjin.
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Economic disputes range from trade in textiles, alcohol and scrap metal to high duties on commercial flights over Siberia.
small
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The victim still had a small piece of metal from the van in his leg, he added.
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For a few seconds, he studied the small metal hatch with its four wire-secured locking nuts.
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They also supply small metal clips to secure items between picture glass and a sheet of hardboard or thin plywood.
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In the harsh light, its most notable feature is a small metal grate over a drain in the very center.
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A little would be sprinkled into a small metal dish placed on top of a metal cylinder.
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Beneath that small metal plate lay the cause of the trouble.
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The computer told the robot to take off two small pieces of metal from its back.
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The posters are separated by small metal plaques that bark out official regulations.
■ NOUN
band
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One said he watched as a metal band holding the propeller flew off and metal peeled away from the engine.
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He felt the inch of bare skin above his socks as two cold metal bands .
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The metal band on the outside of a wagon wheel was a tire.
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There's a bloody thrash metal band , actually.
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I never thought of us as a punk band , a metal band, or a new wave band.
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On his head sits a metal band with ear-phones attached.
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Also, we decided to make a stylistic change on this record and I see a lot of other metal bands following suit.
bar
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Thirty officers were attacked with bottles, and a metal bar .
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Porches are enclosed with metal bars , like canary cages.
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He was stabbed and beaten with a metal bar .
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If necessary use a metal bar to increase the leverage, then repeat for the further tap.
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A few deft strokes with a metal bar and Toby was free!
box
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Rural communities in particular are splintering into individual metal boxes .
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Ceiling fans should be mounted to a metal box in the ceiling.
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I put the metal box containing the army ration-strengths down on the ground.
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The sound of metal falling was the door of the metal box , which was the snake's home.
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Slender, graceful, with either end encased in a rectangular metal box they looked perfectly innocuous.
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And this doesn't look like the inside of a covered wagon: this looks like the inside of a metal box .
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Ivan brought me a battered metal box from the driver's cab.
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The yellow metal box that was fixed to the brickwork on the greengrocer's shop reminded Lee Sorvino of his infant son.
detector
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Once the search area has been widened however, enthusiasm flooded back with a loud response from one of the metal detectors .
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Could he please try out his metal detector in her yard?
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Pectoral cross Among my first finds with a metal detector are this silver cross and two coins.
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Security was tight; every guest was searched and walked through a metal detector upon arrival.
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Should the proposals come into force they would greatly affect the already unfairly restricted use of metal detectors .
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Save for the metal detector and federal guards in the lobby, the place could easily pass for a third-rate collection agency.
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Modern metal detectors are extremely good at finding such losses.
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Each morning, security guards search students with hand-held metal detectors .
door
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He found it on the far side, punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move.
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Look at this, Brice, he said, pointing to a small sticker on the metal door , yellow and black.
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They were led to a metal door .
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Our shadows clung to the shine of the metal doors .
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A metal door latch is dated 1743.
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Finally, they were let through an air lock guarded by massive metal doors into the reactor structure.
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A warder stood at one end of the infirmary, standing by a thick metal door .
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Across the hall from us is another bench, and it leads to that metal door .
ion
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The hydration enthalpies of some alkali metal ions and halide ions are shown in table 5.11.
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Trace metal ions in the solution are thereby reduced and plated on to the anodic electrode.
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Could metal ions be made to stick on to the outside of the fullerene football?
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For this reason concentrations of potentially interfering metal ions approximating the serum levels are used in the standards.
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High-temperature gas cleaning techniques remove the water and metal ions which are a natural constituent of silica glass, and attenuate light.
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Distortions due to the formation of hydrogen bonds are usually smaller than those due to co-ordination to metal ions .
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The nuclear industry produces waste streams which contain a variety of radioactive metal ions , the extraction of which minimises radioactive discharges.
object
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Always avoid metal objects coming into contact with the wine.
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When the mole molecules of a metal object are heated, they begin to vibrate.
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A metal object was used to gouge a deep wound in the animal's forehead.
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A few other metal objects had been fired, such as clocks and hair brushes ... but they had proved quite useless.
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Above the shelves, on rusty six-inch nails, hung metal objects with serrated teeth, covered in cobwebs.
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Buried metal objects distort this field and are detected as a result of an electrical signal picked up by a receiver coil.
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In Celtic society elaborate metal objects were often used to display the power of an individual or a tribe.
plate
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Voice over Gavin now faces the prospect of having to have a metal plate inserted in his head.
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Beneath that small metal plate lay the cause of the trouble.
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His right and left wrist were the worst affected and his body rejected the metal plates and wires inserted into them.
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Or magnetic rugs for men who have metal plates in their heads?
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The master copy is prepared on a thin metal plate or special paper.
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These consist of a motor-driven continuous sanding belt, held against the work by a metal plate under the body.
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Surgeons plan to operate tomorrow to insert a metal plate .
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Gravure a rotary printing process where the image is etched into the metal plate attached to a cylinder.
rod
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On the left was the privy, covered by a curtain which hung from a metal rod .
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I kept it up now for twenty minutes as Janir gripped the linked metal rods supporting his seat.
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This time it was a piece of wire mesh on a metal rod .
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He pressed himself against a metal rod .
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When nothing happened he remembered the short metal rod Father Conroy had given him.
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They dropped down wearily on metal rods .
sheet
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And the beauty is not just limited to the sheet metal .
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Houses were shoulder-high, made of old packing crates and strips of sheet metal , the walls stuffed with cardboard and rags.
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The technique of hammering meant that sheet metal was liable to become brittle.
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Some had pieces of sheet metal tacked on to them.
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Heinz was a sheet metal worker.
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But the familiar screaming of sheet metal against a wall undoubtedly will make hearts skip faster than usual.
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At its Llanfyllin site, Grayman Tooling and Pressings manufactures sheet metal pressings and assemblies mainly for the automotive industry.
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A sheet metal punch is drawn through by being tightened with an Allen key.
transition
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Calculations for transition metal species present particularly difficult problems.
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The course includes following topics - thermodynamics, kinetics, solution chemistry, organic chemistry, transition metals and metal extraction.
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This is one sign of the richness of the electronic spectra of compounds containing transition metal centers.
worker
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The rapport among masons, glaziers, painters, mosaicists and metal workers was complete and satisfying.
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Heinz was a sheet metal worker .
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At Falkirk there are many skilled metal workers in iron, brass and copper.
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Voice over She's not the only metal worker at the exhibition.
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Nationally, this can be seen most clearly in the poor settlement achieved by the metal workers .
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More reliable data for the metal workers , the most powerful sector, show only 20-25 percent unionization.
■ VERB
contain
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He found that glass containing these metals was useful for sun-glasses.
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Scientists assume that those planets' high-pressure cores contain metal hydrogen.
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Both results suggest that the nanotubes are filled with yttrium carbide crystals, and contain no yttrium metal or yttrium oxide.
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Noting that nearly all mines contain metal , Rep.
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For example a ship called the Felicia left Philadelphia in August 1986 carrying a cargo of incinerator ash containing harmful metal residues.
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They reported a ruined city, containing strange metal statues which appeared of sophisticated manufacture.
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This is one sign of the richness of the electronic spectra of compounds containing transition metal centers.
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So although the new machine contains less metal than its predecessor, if offers a high standard of construction.
use
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Endill was using both wood and metal in his plane but he didn't dare tell either Mr Welt or Mr Walpit.
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People are using more metals , instead of just painting it.
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With the right accessories it can also be used for metal filing, wood and plastic rasping, and for brushing!
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Application Tell the students that chimes can be made by using a metal spoon instead of a coat hanger.
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It can be used on wood and metal , and needs no primer or undercoat.
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These are not six different serious proposals for using the metal resources of the belt!
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One is chemical, using either a metal softener or corrosive.
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Analysts said the mining shares are also expected to profit from the growing global demand for electronics parts which use their metals .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
galvanized iron/metal etc
metal-coated/plastic-coated etc
noble gas/metal
put/press/push the pedal to the metal
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By the second half of the game, the Tigers had really started to put the pedal to the metal.
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Later, Brooks' brother alleged that racism helped put the pedal to the metal.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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metal pipes
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metal , punk, and folk bands
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The frame is made of metal .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A metal object was used to gouge a deep wound in the animal's forehead.
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An electric arc, or continuous spark, flows between a metal electrode and the steel.
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During their absence, contractors arrived to remove a quantity of rubbish and unfortunately took all the metal parts as well!
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For many fans, metal , with its pile-driving sound and locker-room lyrics, is more than a rite of passage.
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Jed took hold of the cold metal and knocked twice.
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Teledyne, which has metals, consumer products, aerospace and other businesses is another spinoff possibility, according to Tuttle.
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The metals are used in pigments that color vinyl.
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The movement of trace-elements through the environment A large number of chemical reactions take place when trace metals move through the environment.