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...ing his life" – my grandma repeated disparagingly. My mother nodded. My father said: "The aluminium here must be painted, it's all so rusty. I can ...

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...und Vato Lehibe early in the morning. Vato Lehibe was a booming mining planet. Its rock was of a deep red colour and contained high concentrations of aluminium and other metals. As the resources’ deposits began just under the surface, scrap mining was possible and profitable. The Arcus Stream was a kind of swift canal through hyperspace that allowed very fast travel, eve...

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...ts David Zipoy and Robert Forward at Mary- land University [70]. It was an aluminium cylindrical pig weighing 1.5 tons, suspended by a steel “thread” ... ...tation of a distant object in the depths of space; 2. The particles of the aluminium cylindrical pig, used by Weber, had substantial thermal motions. ...

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... her foot down on the stark alloy disk, which buckled easily under foot. "Aluminium," Atlas said. Sifting through the plates, he hoped to find one wi...

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...beans Sugar More on Personal Development Part 4: Enhancing the Placebo Effect Part 5: Honey & Batteries Part 6: Batteries & Walnut Oil Part 7: Aluminium Mesh, Batteries & Washing Powder Part 8: Clearing & Energising the Cell Membranes Part 9) Stimulants to Recalibrate the Immune System to the New Body Condition Part 10) Clearing the genes of harmful energy Afte...

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...he heavens—cylinders, cones, pear-shaped monsters, even at last a thing of aluminium that glittered wonderfully, and that Grubb, through some confusio... ...se German airships were held together by rib-like skel- etons of steel and aluminium and a stout inelastic canvas outer- skin, within which was an imp... ...perhaps ten feet square and eight high, furnished with crimson padding and aluminium. A tall, bird-like young man with a small head, a long nose, and ... ...He took the chair and balanced it on his little finger. “Pretty light, eh? Aluminium and magnesium alloy and a vacuum inside. All these cushions stuff... ...pointed out particularly the lightness of everything, the use of exhausted aluminium tubing, of springy cushions inflated with com- pressed hydrogen; ... ...k, and both its compressed-air knapsack and its helmet were of an alloy of aluminium and some light metal. “We can go all over the inside netting and ... ...rt of the eagle. From the magazine amidships a covered canvas gallery with aluminium treads on its floor and a hand-rope, ran back underneath the gas-... ...pom-pom of German steel and its locker of shells. This gallery was all of aluminium magne- sium alloy, the tight front of the air-ship swelled cliff-... ... the bird-headed officer, still swearing slightly, and carrying strops and aluminium boot-trees and weightless hair-brushes and hand-mirrors and pomad...

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...ll, for instance, was a great heap of granite, bound together by masses of aluminium, a vast labyrinth of pre- cipitous walls and crumpled heaps, amid... ...ed out in the early morn- ing towards a well near the ruins of granite and aluminium. ‘Little Weena ran with me. She danced beside me to the well, but...

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...n behind the mound of clay. In another second it had lifted a bar of white aluminium into 114 The War of the Worlds sight, untarnished as yet, and sh... ...ut the pit was illuminated by the flickering green fire that came from the aluminium-making. The whole picture was a flickering scheme of green gleams... ...ve for the big mound of greyish-blue powder in one corner, certain bars of aluminium in another, the black birds, and the skeletons of the killed, the...

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... have brought a tankard for that beer,’ he said. Firmin produced a folding aluminium cup, and the king was pleased to drink. ‘I wish, sir,’ said Firmi... ...ment. Behind them the window opened into a large room, richly decorated in aluminium and crimson enamel, across which the king, as he glanced ever and...

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...xperiment. Well, by analyzing those ashes, you will ob- tain silicic acid, aluminium, phosphate and carbonate of lime, carbonate of magnesia, the sulp... ...lements which analysis finds in the cress, namely, potash, lime, magnesia, aluminium, etc., should have one common principle floating in the atmospher...

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...ousand yards long and a thousand broad, and constructed of the compound of aluminium and iron that had replaced iron in architecture. Their higher tie... ...ay on its launching carrier upon the wide expanse of the flying stage, its aluminium body skel- eton was as big as the hull of a twenty-ton yacht. Its...

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...the word “rising.” He was large and fair, with a hard, alert, superficial, aluminium-coloured eye, and hair like chalk mud, even-featured and muscular...

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...shaft, with a propeller in the place of the shaft.” “Steel?” “Not steel.” “Aluminium?” “No, no, nothing of that sort. An alloy that was very com- mon—...

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...ntinental tents had been cut up and shared long ago, and there were patent aluminium saucepans abroad. But they considered the lama’s presence a perfe...

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...shaft, with a propeller in the place of the shaft.” “Steel?” “Not steel.” “Aluminium?” “No, no, nothing of that sort. An alloy that was very com- mon—...