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  2. List of named alloys - Wikipedia

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    Hiduminium or R.R. alloys (2% copper, iron, nickel): used in aircraft pistons Hydronalium (up to 12% magnesium, 1% manganese): used in shipbuilding, resists seawater corrosion Italma (3.5% magnesium, 0.3% manganese): formerly used to make coinage of the Italian lira

  3. Mary River Mine - Wikipedia

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    Mary River Mine. The Mary River Mine is an open pit iron ore mine on Inuit Owned Land (IOL) operated by the Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation (BIMC), in the Mary River area of the Qikiqtaaluk Region, on Baffin Island, Nunavut, [3]: 2 in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. As of 2021, Mary River mine operation consists of an open-pit mine, two work ...

  4. Graphite - Wikipedia

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    Graphite electrodes carry the electricity that melts scrap iron and steel, and sometimes direct-reduced iron (DRI), in electric arc furnaces, which are the vast majority of steel furnaces. They are made from petroleum coke after it is mixed with coal tar pitch. They are extruded and shaped, then baked to carbonize the binder (pitch). This is ...

  5. Carbon dioxide - Wikipedia

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    When carbon dioxide dissolves in water, it forms carbonate and mainly bicarbonate (HCO − 3), which causes ocean acidification as atmospheric CO 2 levels increase. [ 9 ] It is a trace gas in Earth's atmosphere at 421 parts per million (ppm) [ a ] , or about 0.04% (as of May 2022) having risen from pre-industrial levels of 280 ppm or about 0.025%.

  6. Mining in Western Australia - Wikipedia

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    Production of iron ore in Western Australia in 2018–19 was 794 million tonnes (1.8 trillion pounds), down on the previous year's 839 million tonnes (1.8 trillion pounds) of ore, however due to improved iron ore prices, sales of $78.2 billion were up 26 per cent on the previous year, setting a new record for iron ore sales values.

  7. Aspect ratio (image) - Wikipedia

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    1.19:1 = 19:16 Sometimes referred to as the Movietone ratio, this ratio was used briefly during the transitional period when the film industry was converting to sound, from 1926 to 1932 approx. It is produced by superimposing an optical soundtrack over a full-gate 1. 3 aperture in printing, resulting in an almost square image.

  8. Nitrogen - Wikipedia

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    Nitrogen is a nonmetal and the lightest member of group 15 of the periodic table, often called the pnictogens. It is a common element in the universe, estimated at seventh in total abundance in the Milky Way and the Solar System. At standard temperature and pressure, two atoms of the element bond to form N 2, a colorless and odorless diatomic gas.

  9. Java version history - Wikipedia

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    The number was changed to "better reflect the level of maturity, stability, scalability and security of the J2SE". [27] This version was developed under JSR 176 . Java SE 5 entered its end-of-public-updates period on April 8, 2008; updates are no longer available to the public as of November 3, 2009.